What causes addictive gambling? – There is no one hundred percent consensus on what causes it, but we can draw some very powerful generalities here that seem to go across everybody’s idea of what addictive gambling is. Of course, there’s probably a propensity for the individual to be impulsive and to like to receive rather quick feedback and rewards system. When you go into a casino or sit in front of a slot machine and you get reinforced, then you’re going to start anticipating money coming your way. Now, there are several types of learning. One type of learning is if you went into a casino or something and you won every single time and then all of a sudden you stopped winning and you kept on losing you would walk away from that slot machine because you would say well I was winning then and I’m not winning now, there’s no reason to continue or to hope for a turn of events. There’s another sort of learning where every time you went to the slot machines and you put in coins and you never won, well chances are you won’t become addicted. What happens over time and the casinos are very, very aware of it’s called variable reinforcement. This is just another form of learning where they purposely make the slot machines pay out a certain percentage of the time. So you don’t know how often, when that next pay off is going to come. The more they can teach you or you can learn that you cannot predict the pattern of when you’re going to when to win or know when to pull out and take your money the better for them. So …

 

Gulfstream casino closes after mysterious chink in 13000-gallon fish tank …

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A Florida casino was dealt a bad hand over the weekend when a massive floor-to-ceiling fish tank suddenly burst, causing a deluge that closed two gambling floors. Patrons of the Gulfstream Racing and Casino Park in Hallandale Beach were gambling and …
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Maine's 'Safe Bet' Program Targets Compulsive Gambling

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Christine Theriault of the Office of Substance Abuse says her office developed it for a year and a half with the help of other organizations and state agencies, like the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and the Gambling Control Board. They'll spread their …
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'It's a darkness': Chinatown waiters affected by gambling addiction back calls …

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CHINATOWN waiters who have suffered from gambling addiction this week called on the government to take a tougher stance on bookies. They added their … I hate myself for it and also I hate the industry that caused for me this problem.” The Chinatown …
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Ex-Anderson union official charged with theft, forgery

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ANDERSON, Ind. — The former treasurer of a city union was charged Tuesday with embezzling more than $ 79,000 in union funds over three years to feed a gambling addiction. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Gregory V. Manis, 54, of Anderson.
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