I don't know how much he had, but it would have been a few hundred thousand dollars.' The trouble for Gus Vega is that he is a gambling addict. 'He burnt through his superannuation, whatever he had. But then when he became a pensioner, money was a lot tighter,' Cesar said. 'While he was earning an income, he could sort of hide it away a little. READ MORE: Woman learns about her mistaken identity after receiving someone else's criminal records in mailįirst on the horses and then when pokies appeared in clubs everywhere, he said he couldn't help himself. It's a nightmare and the club needs to do more to keep him out.'Īfter migrating to Australia, Gus, an aeroplane mechanic, said he became addicted to gambling. 'Look, if he gets the money, he will continue gambling, okay.

'He shouldn't have gambled the money in the first place and the club shouldn't keep the money he's gambled,' his son Cesar said. READ MORE: Vulnerable Aussies unable to afford power amid heatwave When 76-year-old pensioner Gus Vega won almost $11,000 on the pokies he thought he'd literally hit the jackpot.