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All posts tagged: Profits from Gambling Addicts

Casinos Hide Behind Public Relations Campaigns to Deflect Attention from the Addicts They Create and Exploit

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Predatory gambling interests attempt to promote the perception they are concerned about the addicts they create and exploit for profit but the reality is they don’t have a business without them. Casinos commonly use tactics like those in the story below which describes the Seminole Tribe’s payment to “fight compulsive gambling.” Florida state government itself stands to collect an average of $240 million a year over five years from the casino, most of which will be coming from addicted citizens. How much did the casino tribe donate to help its victims? $1.75 million. Yet another reason why the most predatory business in the country is so profitable.

Florida Tribe Donation

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Montana Gambling Study Commission Report

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This report prepared by the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research for Montana Gambling Study Commission found that gambling addicts account for 36% of video gambling revenues.

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The Design of Slots and the Implications for Problem Gamblers

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This research by Prof. Kevin A. Harrigan at the University of Waterloo examines characteristics of Ontario slots and what the implications are for problem gamblers, including analysis of the probability accounting reports (or PAR sheets) to see how the games are designed. One of their key findings include: “Bonus modes are highly salient environments associated with wins that are in the view of the gambler a very good place to be. Because entering these arousing and highly rewarding bonus environments is rare, only those who gamble frequently will become classically conditioned to these environments and experience the combined effects of operant and classical conditioning – a situation that could preferentially target problem gamblers.”

PAR Sheets, Probabilities and Slot Machine Play – Implications for Problem and Non-Problem Gambling

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Survey of the Nature and Extent of Gambling and Problem Gambling in the Australian Capital Territory

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This study by Australian Institute for Gambling Research and the University of West Sydney reported that 48% of gambling machine revenue and 37% of all commercial gambling revenue was attributable to problem gamblers.

Survey of the Nature and Extent of Gambling and Problem Gambling in the Australian Capital Territory

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Costs and Treatment of Pathological Gambling

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This study by Henry Lesieur from the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences found that pathological and problem gamblers account for an average of 30.4 percent of total gambling expenditures in the four U.S. states and three Canadian provinces he examined (the low was 22.6 percent, the high was 41.2 percent in Louisiana). The study identified which games were associated with problematic play and identified “video machines” (as opposed to old-style slots) in that group. Lesieur concluded: “When a state decides to shift from lotto to instant or scratch lottery tickets to video machines as a revenue-raising measure, it is taking a greater and greater percentage of money from problem gamblers.”

Costs and Treatment of Pathological Gambling

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Report finds that 60% of gambling machine revenue was derived from problem gamblers

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This report prepared for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre found that 60% of machine revenue was derived from problem gamblers and that 35% of total gambling revenue was derived from moderate and severe problem gamblers.

The Demographic Sources of Ontario Gambling Revenue

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Casinos Use Surveillance to Help Only Their Profits, Not Their Patrons

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This Associated Press story shows the reality of the use of video surveillance in casinos. While many may think they are safe at a large, well-known casino, this story tells that the many cameras installed are used not to help secure the safety of casino hotel workers and patrons, but for making sure no one is cheating while playing their games. This just goes to show where casinos’ priorities really are.

2013 In Vegas, eye in the sky guards money, not guests

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Natasha Schull writes about the design and technology behind electronic gambling machines in Washington Post

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MIT Professor Natasha Schull writes about the design and technology behind electronic gambling machines in this must-read Washington Post essay.

Beware -Machine Zone Ahead

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Slot Machines Addict Victims Three Times Faster Than Other Forms of Gambling

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Dr. Robert Breen and Mark Zimmerman studied the length of time it takes the average compulsive gambler to become addicted. They found machines addict victims about three times faster than traditional table and track gambling. They are also the biggest moneymakers for government-sanctioned gambling today.

Slot Machine Addiction Study: The Rapid Onset of Pathological Gambling in Machine Gamblers

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