It was classic shyster behaviour, bearing all the usual hallmarks of problem gambling, and wanting to claim recompense for their boo-boo.
Create thread implying a matter of urgency - check
Use other people's money to fund one's gambling - check
Give evolving accounts of what occurred, implicating oneself on a public forum - check
Realize that one's story is fishier than plaice sold during the heatwave; get angered by people's refusal to side with the story - check
Cite health problems that have no bearing on anything, never mind legal matters, in an attempt to silence dissenters and get others to pity you - check
Finally go full- "Me against the world" and go hell for leather, attacking all and sundry, even the site itself - check!
I mean sure, law of averages dictate that for every 100 cases we see, one might be genuine; the desperate lashings out of a player wronged as they feel no one's prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt. Just that this wasn't one of them.
Saying that, it'd be great to see this on This Morning. Firstly, as a sort of curio, as I didn't think anyone watched that show anymore, let alone TV.
Provided their queue- hopping hosts haven't been axed by then!