He said after winning a large amount of money, his friends would withdraw the cash and, instead of taking the money, “they will find somewhere else and put it back in”. ”Sometimes it’ll be $100, sometimes $200.” The former student said as soon as his friends turned 18, they began going to their local pub and putting money on the pokies most weeks. “It definitely had an influence on them gambling later on to win real-life money,” he said. “There’s all sorts of weapons you can get and you can get different skins, so your guns in the game can have different patterns,” he said. From gaming to ‘real-life money’Ī former student of a secondary school in Hawke’s Bay said when he was at school, he started betting money on overseas video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s “skin” gambling website. “I’ve found myself getting loans off my mates for the weekends,” he said. The former secondary school student now faces a gambling addiction and struggles financially as a current university student.
