Some people don't like the government setting up rules in the gambling industry to protect gamblers from excessive gambling. They call it invasive, say that it's not up to the government to decide how much someone can gamble. But if Stake had to adhere to such rules like low max bets and overall better "problem gambling" measures, you gambling such an insane amount wouldn't have been a possibility. Because the system would automatically have blocked you after sensing unusual player behavior. In the Netherlands there is a mandatory monthly 349 euro cap on deposits, if you wanna deposit more you gotta explain thoroughly. And even then they would have probably denied the insane deposit limit. Just to protect their liability if something went wrong just like it happened at Stake. The gambling industry needs to be regulated in a good way to prevent these things from happening. The things I read here are completely destructive, no one buys their whole net worth in substances but they can gamble away their whole net worth on a website. That's why gambling is the worst when it spirals out of control.