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Whether you bet on roulette, poker, slots, scratch cards, sports or in casinos, excessive gambling can interfere with work, strain relationships, and lead to financial catastrophe. You may even be lead to do things that you never thought you would do such as refraining from paying debts or stealing money. People who have excessive...
Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has recently been in the news over recent claims he has made about the online gambling industry, calling it “a threat to society-a toxin which all good people ought to resist.” Adelson’s statement comes as more and more states in the US are passing bills to legalize online gambling....
The United States currently accounts for 30% of all gambling revenue in the world from land-based casinos where the rest of the world currently generates US$25 billion a year from online gambling, five billion of which comes from mobile, according to James Kosta, CEO of 3G Studios, during a recent TedX talk. Amid such...
According to industry estimates there are well over 1,000 illegal Internet cafes in the United States that allow for illegal online poker gaming. While some cafes rake measures in protecting what sites can be accessed, some are completely oblivious to online gaming or some frankly do not care, which puts them at risk for...
According to Alan Feldman, Executive Vice President of MGM resorts, the main concern for online poker players on a state-to-state basis is whether they move around a lot from state to state. This is because the laws in each state in the US vary on their rules on online Poker and certain players may...
This is a subject up for debate. Online Pokies games are each subject to random number generators (RNG) that determine how much the game can pay out and when. Some people believe the RNGs calculate certain users’ play while others believe it is done through the whole game and all the players included. If...
There is no 100% consensus on what causes gamblers to be addictive, or rather what causes people to be addictive in general, but there are some generalities such as compulsiveness and the yearning for quick rewards, according to Doctor Mark Kern, Director of Addiction Alternatives. He says those generalities, however, are something that casinos...
Since 2008 the online gambling industry has gradually risen in popularity, and in places like Australia and New Zealand land-based Pokies machine revenues have begun to decline as a result. It’s not that people aren’t gambling anymore, it’s that they are changing their methods of gambling. There are a lot of benefits players get...
Throughout life, it has been said we need to learn how to take things as they come and go into them without expectations. This enables us to seemingly go into something without effort and leave it on the same note, neither winning nor losing out on the idea of what is, would could have...
People have some serious skills when it comes to playing online gambling games. Others are just committed and don’t have anything else to do, while some may be letting gambling get the best of them. One gambler by the name of Aaron from Australia, who lives in a one-room apartment, happens to fall somewhere...