{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"To Be The Bookmaker","description":"Sean grew up in a neighborhood in which if you didn\u2019t gamble, you didn\u2019t belong.  Bets began at a young age with friends, as they would play baseball with each other.  In his early teens, a friend introduced him to a bookie, and Sean made bets on sports games right away, putting up bets of hundreds of dollars that he didn\u2019t have.  His losses would have the bookie knocking on his parents\u2019 door.  As he got older, he would come to idolize bookmakers, with their fancy clothes and cars but never holding a real job.  In high school, he would work for bookies getting his peers to make bets.  After high school, he started working a normal job but would take his paycheck gambling.  His descent began with a stroke of luck, winning a five-figure bet when he didn\u2019t have the money to cover it on the chance he lost. ","author_name":"Steppin' Out Radio","author_url":"https:\/\/www.steppinoutradio.com","html":"