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TODAY IN THIS GAME I WON £56,000, but I was only able to withdraw £1,000 🤬🤬🤬 I’ve been sitting here for almost an hour, my hands are shaking, sometimes I’m laughing, sometimes I want to howl — and I can’t do anything about it. 😭 I’ll tell you from the very beginning. My name is Daniel, I’m 22. I live in East London, not far from Stratford, in a small room in a house share: an old Victorian three-bed, creaky floors, thin walls, there’s a draught constantly coming in from the windows. Downstairs there is an Indian takeaway, at night it smells of curry, and at the weekends drunk people shout under the windows after the pubs. In the mornings I go to my shift at a warehouse not far from Dagenham: Overground, then a bus, one hour one way. I work shifts: when I’m lucky — 5 days a week, when I’m not — they give 2–3 shifts, and you just sit and look at the app, how a “zero hours contract” makes you poor. My father left already when I was 14, my mum cleans offices in the City, my younger sister studies in college. In fact I am the one who has to “help the family”, but sometimes I can’t even properly pay for my own room. My day usually looks like this: Stratford station → crowd → Pret for a £2.95 latte (sometimes I just look at the menu and take the cheapest filter) → shift at the warehouse → Tesco Express round the corner → a room with a view of a brick wall. Sometimes, just to switch my head off, I would open one application — Dragon Pour — on my phone, which a mate from work advised me, purely “to unload the brain” while I’m going on the bus or lying down after a shift. My maximum was £20–30 extra per week. I didn’t even think about any thousands. I played every day, but carefully. Sometimes I went to zero, sometimes into a small minus, sometimes I took a plus and went to sleep. In this application the longer you play, the more bonuses appear, the more often normal winning rounds drop out. For me it was just a small additional income and a way to forget about the co
