he never payed his gambling debts his his greed it has never been good for joey loads of bookies flipped and testified against him in 2001 because joey ruined there business not only did he bet into there books and never pay he also demanded street tax it was impossible for these guys to make a living
he bet into mob guys aswell 200k into prevites book and apparently bet into steve mazzone and johnny changs book. The guy tried to run a book with ralphie head they went out of business within a week they couldn't do it joey never had the smarts for it Joey was never an earner