The details of two recent, high-profile illegal-gambling indictments read like a screenplay by Martin Scorsese, with NBA players and members of the New York Mafia rigging poker matches and using insider information to bet on basketball games. But for some, the news was more personal. When Diana first heard the story, she thought, Thank God, people are going to be talking about this . She’d had no idea which signs to look out for when her husband was gambling away around $300,000 on DraftKings and FanDuel. “Being addicted to casino gambling is completely different,” she says. “Sports betting is so easy to hide.”

Mobile-betting apps are legal in most states and provide a bottomless pit of wagers, from the outcome of a game to the number of assists made by a specific basketball player

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