All In: The $200,000 Gamble

Summary

During the Lunar New Year, my husband lost twenty thousand dollars playing cards in a single night.

That was the hard-earned money we had saved up by living frugally while working away from home all year.

It was also our daughter's tuition, my father's surgery fund, and our family's living expenses for the coming year.

My husband knelt outside our bedroom door all night, begging for my forgiveness.

I cried the entire night.

Finally, I dug out our daughter's hundred dollars of New Year's money and handed it to him: "Go back and keep gambling tonight."