You Bet Your Life by Spencer Christian

The title tells you a little about the main problem, the addiction holding a grip on life.

I picked up this book mainly because I like books of survivors. I don’t know Spencer Christian. I have never heard of him. I don’t watch the news on television. I don’t have a television set. There is really no reason I should know the name.

That aside, Spencer had one big problem. It was larger than his color or his personality. He had an addiction that almost destroyed him. That addiction was not to drugs. It was to gambling.

He had it all.

“I was a high roller. This meant that casino-hotels from Las Vegas to Atlantic city to the Caribbean Islands offered me the finest luxury suites, gourmet meals with thousand-dollar bottles of wine, first class air travel, and on-the-spot limousine service—all for a few hours a day of “action” at their gaming tables.”

Outwardly he had it made. But he drove himself and his family into bankruptcy and debt because of his addiction.

His life as an on-line broadcaster, a reporter and then a weather man, helped in his addiction since it gave him the freedom to travel.

Spencer had the American dream. He was a center piece on Good Morning America from 1986 to 1999. He had a loving wife and children. He had a home and a great career.

But the addiction wiped it out. He loss over three million dollars, his home, his job, his wife.

But he rebuilt his life and overcame his losses.  He regained his hope and happiness.

This autobiography is a must read.

Post Hill Press is the publisher and it retails for $26.00.

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