'The second half of 2020, I took approximately $20,000 from my 401(k) and basically I would max out a credit card and pay that off and tell myself I wasn't going to do it again, and then the next day I'd be racking up the credit card again,' says Delaney.ĭelaney found Hatch's podcast as he struggled with an addiction to online sports betting two years ago. He doesn't have an exact amount of money he gambled away, but he says he lost most of what he earned for more than a decade working as many of three jobs.įor Hatch, broadcasting his gambling addiction fight is as much therapy as it is a call to others, like Steven Delaney. I was academically dismissed after my first year because I was always at the casino,' Hatch says. 'I was just in a position where because of gambling I never graduated college.

Hatch isn't afraid to take those who tune in to his podcast, ' All In: The Addicted Gambler's podcast,' back to the lowest parts of his life.įor more than a dozen years, he says, he spent multiple nights a week, many times until 5 a.m., at casino blackjack tables. Brian Hatch says it's been more than eight years since he last placed a bet.

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