How does online gambling operations manage gambling addiction?

[mich]

Im guessing that they embrace it in this case and why shouldnt they if the gambler is trying to take their money.
You can ask to be excluded but if it has come down to this part in your life, you really might need to seek other helpful options.
Like any other addiction there are ways to prevent your desire to gamble.

[jhongzjhong]

It depends on each of the gamblers, the personality possessed by the gambler will determine whether they can avoid addiction or not. This must be understood because every gambler must be able to control emotionally well. Addiction is a problem, but when a gambler has a special formula for doing good management, they will be able to avoid addiction by themselves.

This is was right, you can do it your self and we can't blame gambling site of being an addiction. It can be avoided if gambler noticed that it makes feel personality possessed on gambling. However, controlling your self is not just easy but if you can apply self-discipline probably you made it. Don't let gambling control your emotion, you must have to adjust on it to have a better profit.

[rizkyhiw]

I know "Brick n Mortar" casinos have special counseling and advisors on call for people with gambling addiction and they also apply some measures for the gamblers with gambling addiction to "ban" themselves.

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction? The Brick n Mortar" gambling sites have a social responsibility and local licensing requirements than needs to be adhered to for them to operate in a specific country or town, so they cannot avoid doing this.

Please give your inputs and ideas on how this can be done with online gambling sites. 

If the gambling sites has a system that monitoring gambling addiction and those members that are suspected to be in a serious gamblers and losing often should be block from making deposit. It is also very important for the gambling sites to interview the members in other to find out if someone is addicted to gambling.

It's very difficult if you really want to record all the players and ask if they are addicted or not? This is a very ridiculous choice where those who are addicted to gambling often do not realize what they are doing and cannot control everything that has been spent and are emotionally difficult to anticipate, there is no system that can prevent everything from returning to own feeling and consult with the closest people to get more support but unfortunately they are not honest with what they are feeling right now, nobody can prevent it all.

[goaldigger]

I know "Brick n Mortar" casinos have special counseling and advisors on call for people with gambling addiction and they also apply some measures for the gamblers with gambling addiction to "ban" themselves.

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction? The Brick n Mortar" gambling sites have a social responsibility and local licensing requirements than needs to be adhered to for them to operate in a specific country or town, so they cannot avoid doing this.

Please give your inputs and ideas on how this can be done with online gambling sites. 

Gambling sites and casinos dont usually concerned about the person getting addict in gambling because for the fact it gives them more profit that regular gambler. But in that case, i guess online gambling are harder to be stopped because of the easy access. Even you ban yourself from the site, you can use difderent accounts to play.

[Dreamchaser21]

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction?

It is hard until the player admits for themselves that they are an addict to gambling. Even if a gambling site put a feature that gamblers can find a counselor and talk to them it will be pointless until a person admits to his own addiction.

That’s true and most of the addicted gamblers only admit this one when the’ve lose everything. Well, this can be a good advantage to the gambling site because more players will stay. A gambling site with a legal team to address addiction is also a good sign that the gamblin site is serious to help their players not to be addict.

[Yamifoud]

I know "Brick n Mortar" casinos have special counseling and advisors on call for people with gambling addiction and they also apply some measures for the gamblers with gambling addiction to "ban" themselves.

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction? The Brick n Mortar" gambling sites have a social responsibility and local licensing requirements than needs to be adhered to for them to operate in a specific country or town, so they cannot avoid doing this.

Please give your inputs and ideas on how this can be done with online gambling sites. 

Gambling sites and casinos dont usually concerned about the person getting addict in gambling because for the fact it gives them more profit that regular gambler. But in that case, i guess online gambling are harder to be stopped because of the easy access. Even you ban yourself from the site, you can use difderent accounts to play.

Yes, addiction is that their main concerns instead they'll be happy that many we're fall into that so they can generate more income from them(loyal gamblers). Online gambling will have that disadvantage also cause even young minds can still access their sites and it could lead them to be out of the school.

[kawetsriyanto]

~snip~ The main problem, most gamblers are not admitting that they are addicted. ~snip~

I agree with you. Most of them are not aware if they have already addicted to gambling. While others refuse to get treatment from counseling and advisors. These cases need big support from their families, especially from parents, wives or husbands. They should ensure the addicted gamblers to consult or get special treatment. Besides then, the role of the advisor or consultant determines the result.  

[crzy]

I know "Brick n Mortar" casinos have special counseling and advisors on call for people with gambling addiction and they also apply some measures for the gamblers with gambling addiction to "ban" themselves.

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction? The Brick n Mortar" gambling sites have a social responsibility and local licensing requirements than needs to be adhered to for them to operate in a specific country or town, so they cannot avoid doing this.

Please give your inputs and ideas on how this can be done with online gambling sites. 

Gambling sites and casinos dont usually concerned about the person getting addict in gambling because for the fact it gives them more profit that regular gambler. But in that case, i guess online gambling are harder to be stopped because of the easy access. Even you ban yourself from the site, you can use difderent accounts to play.

Simply because its their advantage to earn more so literally if you are addict casinos/gambling sites will not help you to recover on that, maybe they will lend you more money so you will play more. Its hard to stop addiction, whether its online or on casinos, your desire to help yourself is the most important thing to do.

[davis196]

I know "Brick n Mortar" casinos have special counseling and advisors on call for people with gambling addiction and they also apply some measures for the gamblers with gambling addiction to "ban" themselves.

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction? The Brick n Mortar" gambling sites have a social responsibility and local licensing requirements than needs to be adhered to for them to operate in a specific country or town, so they cannot avoid doing this.

Please give your inputs and ideas on how this can be done with online gambling sites. 

I don't know about such "brick'n mortar" casinos.The offline casinos in my country don't have such social responsibilities.It would be great if the online casinos implement some sort of betting limits per account/IP address,but I don't think this will solve the gambling addiction problem.Many players will use VPNs and swithc their IP adress.Implementing KYC and ID verifications can partially solve this,but many players will just run away from online casinos with KYC rules.

[Polar91]

~snip~ The main problem, most gamblers are not admitting that they are addicted. ~snip~

I agree with you. Most of them are not aware if they have already addicted to gambling. While others refuse to get treatment from counseling and advisors. These cases need big support from their families, especially from parents, wives or husbands. They should ensure the addicted gamblers to consult or get special treatment. Besides then, the role of the advisor or consultant determines the result.  

I don't think so. Once a person is addicted to something, he must be aware of that. Perhaps he refuses not to stop because of greediness which part of human nature. Only himself can help him from that addiction.

[imstillthebest]

~snip~ The main problem, most gamblers are not admitting that they are addicted. ~snip~

I agree with you. Most of them are not aware if they have already addicted to gambling. While others refuse to get treatment from counseling and advisors. These cases need big support from their families, especially from parents, wives or husbands. They should ensure the addicted gamblers to consult or get special treatment. Besides then, the role of the advisor or consultant determines the result.  

I don't think so. Once a person is addicted to something, he must be aware of that. Perhaps he refuses not to stop because of greediness which part of human nature. Only himself can help him from that addiction.

a gambling addict can help his own self but its better if he can seek mental help from other people because that can give him an encouragement to be able to speed up his recovery process  . @kawetsriyanto thats impossible if a person didnt know that he is addicted on gambling or not because once a person is addicted in gambling , he can play more longer in an inapropriate way   . he might not unabe to eat or sleep due to being busy playing execsive gambling  .

[crwth]

I think when it comes to online casinos, they would barely take it head on. It's terrible that it's happening in real life but beneficial towards the idea of casinos having a "stream of money" from that person.

An action they could take is check the login times of people and maybe see who is not logging out and keeps on playing on the screen (Not the people who use bots to gamble with them) instead. Maybe estimate if how much they are willing to wager and continue monitoring them. It may be bad for the casino to interfere, but someone who has addiction should be dealt with.

[carlfebz2]

I know that Crypto-Games allows players to contact them when they have problems with gambling addiction and they'll ban that player's IP address if they want it.
I think there are perhaps other casinos that offer similar arrangements, but I personally can't think of any examples.

The least that casinos should offer is a link to gambling addiction resources or a helpline.
Most of them do that luckily.

Thats the only thing that they can do on where they can redirect addicted gamblers to those helplines,forums etc. but generally they wont really care at all too much
for their players as long they are making profits with them.Good to know that Cryptogames do offer such banning of IP but its still useless in all sorts because on internet
we can either just simply play with other gambling sites or just simply use vpn then you are ready to go.

[Pattart]

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction?

It is hard until the player admits for themselves that they are an addict to gambling. Even if a gambling site put a feature that gamblers can find a counselor and talk to them it will be pointless until a person admits to his own addiction.

That’s true and most of the addicted gamblers only admit this one when the’ve lose everything. Well, this can be a good advantage to the gambling site because more players will stay. A gambling site with a legal team to address addiction is also a good sign that the gamblin site is serious to help their players not to be addict.

It's a wise and noble goal actually. but I doubt if gambling sites can provide such things. each player has responsibility to themselves after all. every player know the risk in gambling, about being addict or bankrupt, so they have to deal any problem with themselves

[avikz]

I know "Brick n Mortar" casinos have special counseling and advisors on call for people with gambling addiction and they also apply some measures for the gamblers with gambling addiction to "ban" themselves.

How can online gambling sites deal with gambling addiction? The Brick n Mortar" gambling sites have a social responsibility and local licensing requirements than needs to be adhered to for them to operate in a specific country or town, so they cannot avoid doing this.

Please give your inputs and ideas on how this can be done with online gambling sites. 

It is a big challenge for an online gambling site ro identify an addicted gambler. For the KYC enabled online casinos, a limit can be placed on a person's account that he can play only a certain number of bets in a day. But that can't be enforced for a crypto casino where KYC is not required because an user can create another account using vpn to continue playing!

So online casinos will have to rely on the user only. In most of the cases gamblers don't understand that they are addicted. So online casinos can't do much about it.

I suggest every online casino to use a simple redirect feature. Once an user logs out from the website, the final page can be redirected to the "International Problem Gambling Help" webpage. Every casino websites use their link at the bottom of their website so they can definitely redirect their users to that website. But the final action really depends on the end user!

[Netnox]

Frankly I think that it is not the responsibility of the gambling firm to provide counseling services. Their duty is to provide a honest gambling platform, and it is up to the player to control his addiction.

[prtty2gal2]

It depends on each of the gamblers, the personality possessed by the gambler will determine whether they can avoid addiction or not. This must be understood because every gambler must be able to control emotionally well. Addiction is a problem, but when a gambler has a special formula for doing good management, they will be able to avoid addiction by themselves.

The problem I have seen with gambling addition is that most of its victims would never own up that they are suffering from addition so that they can get immediate help. That’s why I always tell gambler to try as much as possible to have self-control and also a good management so they won’t end up becoming addicts. Gambling game is naturally addictive and it takes only a man with self-control to avoid this. Spending too much time on the game will lead to addiction in the long run.

[darewaller]

I think it will be quite difficult for gamblers to apply self-exclusion on the site as most addicted gamblers will never agree to be suffering from addiction.

The best a site can do is to take note of the gamer’s history; there should be a way they would know. Maybe from the number of hours spent to the amount, then they can have a link that will send the addicted gambler to chart with experts, maybe advise the gamer to go seek an offline professional help or if it is possible put a ban on the gamblers account.

[harizen]

Frankly I think that it is not the responsibility of the gambling firm to provide counseling services. Their duty is to provide a honest gambling platform, and it is up to the player to control his addiction.

Yes. Eventhough gambling sites have disclaimers or sort of several banners posted on their site about responsible gambling, it's up to gamblers if they will be eaten by their greed and become addicted. Honestly being addicted is usual. It's part of the "natural" effect when doing gambling. But somehow if their addiction results into unusual and inappropriate activity, that's the time they need some guidance.

It's not necessary for a gambling site operators or owners to implement a counseling service but Im glad some doing that.

[Chikitita2004]

I don't know how sincere the gambling site's advisors in this matter. In the first place they must think of the benefit of their business and every gambler must be welcome as long as they give profit to the site, in the other hand, since they had agreed to this matter to give counseling to gambling addicts then they must do it contrary to their goal. Their goal is to make profit and not to save gamblers from addiction. This sounds irrelevant and insincere to me.