Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22

Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The WNBA match between the Dallas Wings and New York Liberty in July 2021 was a nail-biter. The lead bounced back and forth between the teams more than a dozen times. Liberty kept the Wings at bay in the third quarter but Dallas took the lead with just under five minutes left in the fourth. Thirty seconds later, the score was tied. Kyle Hudson, 22, was on the other side of the world from that Brooklyn basketball court, but he was heavily invested. In his parents’ house in Werribee, at around 1am local time, he had placed a $5,000 bet on the final score. Hours later, at 10.43am, he placed another bet of $1,300, a long-odds combination bet, known as a multibet, one leg of which tipped Dallas to win. It was almost all the money he had. Hudson’s partner of seven years, Ashley Baker, was in Bendigo with her family that day. She started receiving a flurry of text messages from Hudson’s friends, asking if she knew where he was. He wa