by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker

Jan 30, 2007

Gambling

Gambling is basically a risk taking action. Risking money or valuables in hopes of winning more than you are risking. Gambling includes many things. Gambling includes buying lottery tickets, playing online lottery, cards, dice, casinos, slot machines, sports betting, betting on races, and many other activities.

Online and land based gambling

Gambling is popular for both land based gambling as well as conventional gambling. People gamble for entertainment. People gamble at casinos; there are various games available at the casinos. The casinos deal with many games as well as other entertainment things. The online gambling has become very much popular these days. Online gambling has taken over the based gambling. The conventional gambling has become a very popular source for amusement. The online gambling too serves all the gambling games that are available at the land-based casinos. The Internet casinos are very much easy to operate and convenient to play at. The Internet gambling is becoming very much popular but these days are creating some problem. The small children are also easily accessing to these gambling sites, so these websites are being banned. All the online casinos are not legalized ones. Not all the land-based casinos are legalized only some are legalized. Nevada has all legalized casinos.

Gambling addiction

People gamble for the purpose of fun. Somehow, some people get addicted to gambling. The gambling can become addiction to a gambler if he tries to chase. There are three phases that can lead to gambling addiction. The winning, loosing, and the desperation phase. A person just like any other addiction can catch the gambling addiction. Gambling addiction is just like drugs, cigarette, drinks, or any other. A winning phase is where a person chases the game for making their winning. If a person is winning at the game, he gambles for more and more money. The losing phase where the gambler chases to make up with their loses. They gamble to win the money that they have lost. The desperation phase is where they gamble to come over their emotional state. If a person gambles to come over with other things then a person may get addicted to gambling. Gambling addicted people can get over with the gambling addiction. There are no treatments as such for over coming gambling addiction although there are some help centers and counselors where they can get over with it.

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