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When BlackJack and Jill gamble at home
William Atkins
Wednesday, 15 October 2008 20:15
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The strategies that LaTour and Cotte suggest are:
• Cross-checking new users with lists of pathological gamblers
• Setting financial limits on gambling and having the site communicate to gamblers that they are spending long hours and a lot of money
• Making information available about problem gambling treatments via pop-ups on instant messages
• Having an online gambling counselor available online
• Mandatory "cooling-off periods," which force online gamblers to stop gambling for are-set amount of time before they are allowed to wager money from their accounts
• Making tabulations of wins and losses more central and larger on the screen
The study was funded from the Harrah College of Hotel Administration at the University of Nevada.
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