I'll have to catch this one sometime - never saw that one. The Lifetime movies are pretty good sometimes.
I have seen that one with Delta Burke "Going for Broke" I think it was called. She was a maniac in that movie always playing the slots in the locals casinos of Reno. Her kids went hungry, electricity turned off in the house because of not paying bills, stealing money from her company to finance the gambling, etc. Funniest part is she goes into the supermarket with $200 to buy food, gets the whole cart loaded with stuff, and then sees a slot machine there and starts playing it. Loses all but $3 and ends up just buying a box of cereal and taking it home.
Another good one I think was called "Playing to Win". It was about a high school girl whose life falls apart once she gets hooked up with a boyfriend who's a compulsive gambler. They start small just making small bets at the racetrack, etc. Then it snowballs into making trips to an Indian casino and losing money to a local bookie on sports. She starts doing everything wrong - steals money at her fast food cashier job by short-changing people on purpose, throws a soccer game as goalie of her team so that her and the boyfriend can wipe out some gambling debt, steals money from her mother's bank account, and they even work out a scheme to rob golfers at a country club betting on their matches. It's not a bad movie - worth seeing once I'd say.
Got to love the Lifetime network!