Too accessible of online casino grows addiction faster?

[arwin100]

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What do you think about this claim? Is he right or wrong? 

Online gambling isn't that popular until the pandemic happened.
Gamblers can't go to casinos because of lockdowns. They don't want to be idle and they always want to gamble thus, they tried to gamble online and that's the start of popularity of online gambling.

Pandemic somehow contribute the outrageous growth of online casino and we can add up the rising number of social media influencers promoting it then telling that they can easily earn money here that's why many people got curious to try then trap until they didn't realize that they are been addicted with the games.

If people will look at this form of entertainment then its fine but unfortunately many other mislead unto this and they have been told to easily get rich if they continuously play on casinos.

[Bushdark]

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What do you think about this claim? Is he right or wrong? 

Online gambling isn't that popular until the pandemic happened.
Gamblers can't go to casinos because of lockdowns. They don't want to be idle and they always want to gamble thus, they tried to gamble online and that's the start of popularity of online gambling.

Pandemic somehow contribute the outrageous growth of online casino and we can add up the rising number of social media influencers promoting it then telling that they can easily earn money here that's why many people got curious to try then trap until they didn't realize that they are been addicted with the games.

If people will look at this form of entertainment then its fine but unfortunately many other mislead unto this and they have been told to easily get rich if they continuously play on casinos.

The same pandemic also I fluence the use of cryptocurrency doing the year 2020 when people are not able to move out or go to work. Everyone was stranded inside there abode because of how severe the COVID-19 was leading to the death of so many individuals.

Since people were looking for how to make money in there various abode, this increases the number of gamblers making the use of crypto casinos to be very popular. I won't be surprised if the lockdown start again due to the news I have been hearing so far about COVID-19 infecting people, this will make more people to turn to gambling as an option for survival.

[d3nz]

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What do you think about this claim? Is he right or wrong? 

Online gambling isn't that popular until the pandemic happened.
Gamblers can't go to casinos because of lockdowns. They don't want to be idle and they always want to gamble thus, they tried to gamble online and that's the start of popularity of online gambling.

Pandemic somehow contribute the outrageous growth of online casino and we can add up the rising number of social media influencers promoting it then telling that they can easily earn money here that's why many people got curious to try then trap until they didn't realize that they are been addicted with the games.

If people will look at this form of entertainment then its fine but unfortunately many other mislead unto this and they have been told to easily get rich if they continuously play on casinos.

The same pandemic also I fluence the use of cryptocurrency doing the year 2020 when people are not able to move out or go to work. Everyone was stranded inside there abode because of how severe the COVID-19 was leading to the death of so many individuals.

Since people were looking for how to make money in there various abode, this increases the number of gamblers making the use of crypto casinos to be very popular. I won't be surprised if the lockdown start again due to the news I have been hearing so far about COVID-19 infecting people, this will make more people to turn to gambling as an option for survival.

It will be hard for people who get addicted to gambling when they experienced winning huge money, some of them are doing revenge gambling if they lose a lot of money and hope they can gain their loss even though they are losing much more.

They can only control themselves when to stop or minimize the gambling but this might be their stress reliever or might have lot of money but don't know where to spent it.

[rby]

The topic creator is very correct about accessibility. When the closest property of anyone is mobile phone, it will always push a gambler to check his portfolio whenever they handle their phones. By this they are becoming more addictive to gambling everyday.

Another point is the easy way to spend money which is already deposited in the gambling company. While in local casino it is fiat that would be used. Having a physical cash will make you think twice before you gamble.

[FatFork]

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What do you think about this claim? Is he right or wrong? 

Online gambling isn't that popular until the pandemic happened.
Gamblers can't go to casinos because of lockdowns. They don't want to be idle and they always want to gamble thus, they tried to gamble online and that's the start of popularity of online gambling.

It's definitely true that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact and made online gambling more popular. However, it's also worth noting that online gambling was already becoming more popular before the pandemic because of technology and internet access.

Let's look, for example, at the google trends of the last 5 years for terms like "Gambling" and "Online Casino":


There's no denying that there was a big spike in interest during the first year of the pandemic, but it's clear that people were already starting to turn to online gambling more and more. And, it's likely that this trend will continue even after things go back to normal.

[coin-investor]

It's definitely true that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact and made online gambling more popular. However, it's also worth noting that online gambling was already becoming more popular before the pandemic because of technology and internet access.

Let's look, for example, at the google trends of the last 5 years for terms like "Gambling" and "Online Casino":


There's no denying that there was a big spike in interest during the first year of the pandemic, but it's clear that people were already starting to turn to online gambling more and more. And, it's likely that this trend will continue even after things go back to normal.

Because everything is done online now, we are in a fast-paced generation now, we like the ambiance of physical casinos but we like the accessibility of online casinos, we are likely to enjoy more on physical casinos but we are likely to get more addicted to online casinos because of easy access, and comfort, we have a work from home because of the internet but now we have the gambling at home because of the internet.

[Kelvinid]

There's no denying that there was a big spike in interest during the first year of the pandemic, but it's clear that people were already starting to turn to online gambling more and more. And, it's likely that this trend will continue even after things go back to normal.

It gains a lot of interest to the people because of its high rewards and is very accessible to use. We can see a lot of promotions that pop-ups on Facebook and even not a gambler could put curiosity about it. It is just about to happen that PlayStore is allowing these things. This will no longer stop gambling addiction but it could trigger more and encourage people to join and gamble. In fact, some online wallets have already been in partnership. It was to say that Online Gambling is likely killing offline casinos slowly.

[maydna]

We can all relate in this one , because there are many of us who gambles more when they start learning online casinos comparing when we are not in this area and we mostly experience more losses but accessibility wise more than playing in real life casino houses.

We have to be wiser in gambling because we will have a bad experience when we force our desire to continue gambling, even though we use our cellphones to gamble when we are outside the house. And indeed, online gambling can make us more addicted than when we go to physical casinos because of the ease of access that we can get in online casinos. And this is where we have to be wise in dealing with online casinos because I'm sure no one will want to become addicted to gambling after they play gambling.

What wise do you mean?
Even though everyone doesn't want to be addicted to gambling, indirectly curiosity will make someone go crazy about gambling and this cannot be avoided by every gambler.
Because actually being wise in dealing with gambling and online casinos is something that is impossible for every gambler to do.
What's more, if someone gambles using an online casino which has the convenience of accessing it at any time, as long as they have money they will continue to gamble at the online casino.

Wise in the sense that we can control how much money we use. I'm sure we can do it, but because there is temptation or greed from within that keeps saying we have to try to play a few more rounds because, who knows, we might win. That makes us lose self-control and can't be wise about gambling, especially when casinos always give attractive promotions that make us want to try it. If we have good self-control, even though we have easy access to gambling, we will not be affected, and we can determine when we gamble and when we should stop even though we have money and have experienced defeat or victory.

[Awaklara]

It will be hard for people who get addicted to gambling when they experienced winning huge money, some of them are doing revenge gambling if they lose a lot of money and hope they can gain their loss even though they are losing much more.

They can only control themselves when to stop or minimize the gambling but this might be their stress reliever or might have lot of money but don't know where to spent it.

Gamblers who are addicted to gambling make more negative responses when they win or lose.
when defeated he can damage the device used. I've seen gamblers like that a few times. and those who win have no control. they will continue to play with the previous wins. and eventually, all will be lost.

I think the use of mobile devices does increase the percentage of gamblers who become addicted. this is the same as game players who play with their smartphones every day. no time to let go. limitations of online gamblers, maybe when their money has run out in the loss.

[Hispo]

Gamblers who are addicted to gambling make more negative responses when they win or lose.
when defeated he can damage the device used. I've seen gamblers like that a few times. and those who win have no control. they will continue to play with the previous wins. and eventually, all will be lost.

I think the use of mobile devices does increase the percentage of gamblers who become addicted. this is the same as game players who play with their smartphones every day. no time to let go. limitations of online gamblers, maybe when their money has run out in the loss.

If one person actually manages to destroy their phone, their computer or their console while gaming or gambling, I would say it is time to get help and admit there is a problem, imo. And those who do not know when to stop (even when just won money), believe they may finally defeated the laws of probabilities, which is obviously false.

The conclusion is that without responsibility, any activity which is suppose to be for fun, ends up in tragedy.
One's not supposed to pay to get sad, angry or depressed. I won't go to Las Vegas to feel that way.  

Also, someone already shared a scientific paper which indeed explains a relation between accessibility and problem gambling.

[xSkylarx]

It still depends on the person if he/she cant control himself but the right word is very prone to addiction as playing in a casino is now accessible unlike before when you need to plan your day or when you will be visiting the casino. It is really because of the pandemic a lot of people migrated from offline to online. There are still features in online casinos that won't get you addicted like monitoring you if you are spending a lot of time and money then after that they will be forcing you to stop though this feature can be easily turned off. But again it is still on the people if he will continue to play even if he knows that he is getting addicted and not stop playing.

[Slow death]

if a person lives far from the city and one day manages to buy a car then from that day on the city will no longer be far for that person, I will give an example, let's imagine that a person called antonio lives very far from the city where there is a good casino, mr antonio likes alcoholic drinks, women and gambling, he can have all of this in the city, but due to the fact that he lives far away from the city mr antonio cannot be in the city every day. but one day, mr antonio buys a car, with that mr antonio can already be in the city almost every day, but due to the high costs of car maintenance and gasoline prices, mr antonio rarely goes to the city

then one day mr antonio discovers gambling on the phone, in which all he needs to do is simply create an account at the online casino and make a deposit and start playing. so Mr. Antonio will be able to be at the casino 24 hours a day every day

it is clear from my example that technology has made more people easily addicted to many things, this is not just about gambling, years ago people needed to go to hotels or certain streets looking for prostitutes to pay for sex , but today there are already many sites where the person just needs to make a call and in a few hours there will be a woman at home to have sex

the same thing has happened with alcohol, in which the person only needs to make a call that they bring alcoholic beverages to the person's house, so we have many addicts to various things

[Merit.s]

OP,your friend is very correct,when there is easy access to gambling, then those gamblers that can't control their gambling activities will get more addicted to gambling, because their casino is in their phone or in their PC. The only way to gamble online and not letting it get into your head that you want to gamble all the time,is when you have self discipline on you gambling habit. I have my gambling budget that the moment, it has been exhausted, I stop gambling, till the next month. See gambling as fun and not a means of making money so that you don't get carried away with your emotions of chasing your lost.

[Peanutswar]

Because online gambling casino is more convenient to play than going into a real casino imagine you need to travel and make a time allotment if you want to play in a real casino but in use of the phone you can create an account, deposit and play no hassle but of course, its just personal preferences also due to pandemic some of the people better to choose the online casino, and the physical casino got restricted, but of course, the experience is really different in the casino you can just watch the game play of other people without getting kick out in the lobby because you are just idle.

[dezoel]

There's no denying that there was a big spike in interest during the first year of the pandemic, but it's clear that people were already starting to turn to online gambling more and more. And, it's likely that this trend will continue even after things go back to normal.

It gains a lot of interest to the people because of its high rewards and is very accessible to use. We can see a lot of promotions that pop-ups on Facebook and even not a gambler could put curiosity about it. It is just about to happen that PlayStore is allowing these things. This will no longer stop gambling addiction but it could trigger more and encourage people to join and gamble. In fact, some online wallets have already been in partnership. It was to say that Online Gambling is likely killing offline casinos slowly.

The reward will depend on the gamblers bet if it's high then the expected reward is also high but low bet doesn't always mean a low reward because there are games which has also has a high multiplier on them.

A casino can also offer some freebies other than this. I guess that counts as a reward as well but indeed that an online casino is very accessible. You don't need to go outside anymore but you can just pull out the phone in your pocket and start playing assuming that you already have some credits in your mobile wallets. Online gambling didn't kills the offline casinos but there are still people who plays at them and stick on them no matter what.

[Bushdark]

The topic creator is very correct about accessibility. When the closest property of anyone is mobile phone, it will always push a gambler to check his portfolio whenever they handle their phones. By this they are becoming more addictive to gambling everyday.

Another point is the easy way to spend money which is already deposited in the gambling company. While in local casino it is fiat that would be used. Having a physical cash will make you think twice before you gamble.

Having some funds online cam be very easier to spend just like you have explained because spending it especially on gambling will be very easily without having double thought about what will happen if you finally lost the entire funds. If the money is in fiat we might be forced to ask ourselves some questions which falls to someone that have pure mind to ask questions before taking a particular action especially when it finance related.
Gambling is juts something of the mind and we need to be very prepared to face the worse if anything happens at the later end. Is only a wise man that think and prepare before doing something.

[Viscore]

I have a discussion with a close relative about online gambling and he said something that about how he hate gambling online because it's too addictive, he claimed real life casinos are better and less addictive because he will have to drive down to Las Vegas to gamble or drive down to a local casino and this still takes some physical effort and it discourages many people from frequenting gambling.

He said with online gambling it's available on through mobile phones and you can play at any time, this means no shortage of gambling around the clock and no shortage of losing money as well, you can easily pull out your phone and gamble with any free time, a bit compulsive and too accessible.

What do you think about this claim? Is he right or wrong? 

He may be right knowing you can enjoy gambling even at the expense of your home while sitting alone holding your phone, and gamble all you can. But I also believe being addicted is never on the accessibility of the gadget, but it’s more on the attitude and discipline of the gambler itself. If he always spend most of his time gambling, he will surely develop addiction. And that’s when everything becomes out of control and you tend to create impulsive decisions that made you an impulsive gambler after all.

[STT]

Convenience is too much temptation for some, I would recommend asking the casino to put you on a do not fly list for a year to remove the possibility until you have an 'annual' trip be it actual physical journey or just virtually restrict yourself to a brief holiday of gambling.   I get his point about distance and convenience, this could apply to food and alcohol also perhaps, too close and people just automatically use it all up but that is an extreme imo.

[Silberman]

Because online gambling casino is more convenient to play than going into a real casino imagine you need to travel and make a time allotment if you want to play in a real casino but in use of the phone you can create an account, deposit and play no hassle but of course, its just personal preferences also due to pandemic some of the people better to choose the online casino, and the physical casino got restricted, but of course, the experience is really different in the casino you can just watch the game play of other people without getting kick out in the lobby because you are just idle.

The pandemic changed everything, there was already a trend in place in which everything was already at the tip of our fingers thanks to our smartphones, but since the pandemic started this trend accelerated dramatically as many people around the world experimented long lockdowns in which they could not leave their homes except for work and if they had some emergency, and even if those lockdowns are no longer in place people have adapted and now prefer this convenience, something which can be dangerous when it comes to activities like gambling which in some cases it can generate compulsive behaviors.

[MusaPk]

The pandemic changed everything, there was already a trend in place in which everything was already at the tip of our fingers thanks to our smartphones, but since the pandemic started this trend accelerated dramatically as many people around the world experimented long lockdowns in which they could not leave their homes except for work and if they had some emergency, and even if those lockdowns are no longer in place people have adapted and now prefer this convenience, something which can be dangerous when it comes to activities like gambling which in some cases it can generate compulsive behaviors.

The pandemic was a big fortune for digital platforms as people can't leave there homes in early days and everything was done digitally. Those who enjoyed online gambling during pandemic have continued that even after restrictions were removed.
Microsoft is cutting down 10,000 of its employees and the reason is
"Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, said in a blogpost that customers had increased their digital spend when coronavirus hit in 2020-21 but were now scaling back."  Guardian