One click away: Philippines grapples with online gambling boom – and doom

A billboard ad for a gambling platform along a road in Quezon City in the Philippines. - Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN

MANILA: It started with a 100 peso (US$1.77) bet on a game she found through a Facebook advertisement.

Ana Reyes (not her real name), a 28-year-old clothes vendor in the southern Philippine province of Davao del Norte, still remembers the thrill of her first win.