Ben Affleck Gambling Facts and Consequences on His Life

Problem gambling is an addiction that is quite hard to be recognized simply because there are no physical signs of it. It is expressed usually as a combination bi-polar distorted and mood swinging. Also, the people suffering from compulsive gambling usually start keeping secrets and distance themselves from their loved ones just to hide the obvious. But when you like gambling and you do it often that doesn’t mean that you are an addict.

When speaking of celebrities like Ben Affleck, it is quite easy to fall into the trap of tabloids and paparazzi looking for the next celebrity scandal to make a profit out of it. Therefore, we cannot be absolutely sure about anything that we read about famous people in our modern world. But this won’t stop us from investigating that matter for you and try to get to the bottom of it and finally get to the answer with some Ben Affleck gambling facts that we will look at.

How The Rumours about Ben Affleck Gambling Problems Started?

This is quite a complicated question because nowadays the internet is flooded with information but not all of it is accurate. After all, it is known that Ben like blackjack and poker especially after he was spotted many times playing in Las Vegas. Additionally, in 2013 he took part in the famous gambling movie Runner Runner, where he and Justin Timberlake were involved in a Ponzi scheme related to online casinos. These facts and tales, with the help of the attention-hungry media, were interpreted may in a wrong way, we are now about to find out. The first doubts of Ben Affleck gambling problems occurred after he was winning a blackjack game against the house of Hard Rock Casino Las Vegas and suddenly he was asked to stop. Just to make a point here, he was never kicked out or anything such as he was just asked to stop playing blackjack.

When Ben was asked to explain what exactly happened that night, he said that as a person, he always strives to learn something in the best way he could. This is the case with blackjack, this is the only casino game that he really likes, and this is why he decided to master it. As we all know blackjack is one of the few “skills” games, where luck is not the only factor, if you are good enough you can learn how to count cards and rob any casino house. Well, that’s what Ben Affleck did and because of that, he was asked to stop playing, which based on his and our opinion tells a lot about the casino itself. This whole story tells us that the issue was basically the fact that Ben Affleck really mastered the game of blackjack and the casino dislike that fact. More or less all rumours about Ben Affleck gambling problems seems false, he is more like a fan than an addict.

Was Gambling a Reasons for Ben`s Divorce?

We believe that after everything aforementioned, you know the answer to that question – it’s no. The truth is that there is another addiction that Ben Affleck suffers from and that is alcohol. Those rumours are true, and right now, we will elaborate and explain in details the whole story.

As you know already, Ben prefers to be a top performer in everything he does, he is a very self-driven and ambitious person, which in the world of Hollywood might make you slip. In a manner of facts, his drinking problems are not a secret at all, even before his marriage with Jennifer Garner. In 2001 he admitted that addiction and entered an alcohol rehab clinic. Later on, in 2005 he got married to Jenniffer and he remained sober most of the time during their marriage. However, to be an actor you need to adapt and fit the character you are about to play, which sometimes includes drinking and smoking. In 2014 during the shoot out of “Gone Girl” Ben started drinking again in order to act more naturally because his character Nick was described as “puffy and hangover” and Ben really wanted to fit in. The thing that crossed the line for Jeniffer was Oscars party where Ben was quite intoxicated and she supposed to drag him home. She also found out about several one-night stands of Ben and maybe all of those problems combined led to the decision to separate. But let’s clarify once again that Ben Affleck gambling problem does not exist and that passion of his got nothing to do with his family issues.

They tried family therapies, trial separation but nothing helped their marriage, then they took the final decision to divorce but keep the good manners between them. After all, they have 3 children and almost 15 years of marriage. The decision was not easy, both confirmed that, but they agreed to co-parent their children and set apart on good terms. The only thing they asked the public was to keep their kids out of the spotlight because this was a private family matter and it must be solved as one. It is known that Jennifer has been a great mother and that she values honesty, therefore we know that everything was properly explained to her kids without any sugarcoating. Despite the fact that they are divorced, they decided to share their mansion in California with an overall size of 8800 sq/ft in order to let Ben keep contact with his kids.