'If you win you feel invincible.' Listener who's spent £100k on high stakes gaming machines

May 15, 2013, 11:51 AM

The founder of Gambling Watch UK says gaming machines in betting shops have no place on the high street. Fixed Odds Betting Terminals - which are often described as being "as addictive as crack cocaine - have grown in numbers over the past decade with 35 thousand now in bookies across the country. You can bet a lot of money on the touch screen machines - and you can do it frequently. Campaigners want more regulation and scrutiny of the impact on some users. Jake, who's addicted to the machines, visits a betting shop with our reporter Phil Mackie.