Targeting vulnerable gamblers

[peter0425]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

[Ruttoshi]

Casinos might choose to give you a free spin or bonus based on your commitment and how frequently you gamble in their casino. However, your tier also depends on how often, you will get bonuses from the casino.

Some casinos, when you are in the VIP tier, at the end of the week, they give you back some percentage from your losses, so that you can gamble and wouldn't feel your losses that much.

[mikel_012]

Casinos are a business like any other and want to make money, so if a user is losing money and giving profit to the casino, they will want to keep hin in house as much as possible.

So yeah it makes sense to give this user more bonuses and rakebacks, because at the end he might still lose more and the profit keeps coming. But would you call this type of gambler vulnerable? Maybe he has fun gambling even if he loses money when the day ends.

The most important thing is to keep your customers because the house edge is enough for even some slow profit.

[condoras]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

As far as we all know, the more money you spend, the better terms and treatment you will get from any casino. It's more than sure that they will send a different promo to the VIPs level 1, from the ones that will be on a lower level. However, I don't believe that casinos will be trying to discover such gamblers, since they will understand it the moment they start playing there. If a casino sees that you spend a lot, then according to the system, you will become a VIP. Then they will target you with different marketing methods.

[Z_MBFM]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

When you do any business yourself, you will want to get clients using any strategy. And the clients of gambling sites are gamblers. The more gamblers they can get to gamble on their platform, the more revenue they can make. So every casino wants to use different strategies to get gamblers to gamble on their site in any way. If a site can track vulnerable gamblers and convert them into potential clients, then that is their success and of course it is ethical.

[crwth]

I believe it's not the people who lose more who are loyal to them and always play with them. I know people who get to be taken care of at a casino just because they always gamble there. They get some breaks, like staying at the hotel, because they know they will continue gambling there. I think taking care of them is the number one thing for casinos to do to keep them coming back.

Taking advantage of people is not a good thing. Keep their loyalty or something.

[danherbias07]

I don't think they are. I hope so. I know they have the stats of each player, and I have seen a movie where a gambler was specifically targeted, and in the end, he killed himself, getting drunk on gambling and losing a lot of money. Still, I do hope this doesn't happen in real life.

In fact, I have been receiving more promotions when I tend not to play anymore. They want you back no matter what the results you get. They just want all their customers to play again. I asked a player of the same online casino, and he said he also receives the same e-mail promotions as mine. I don't play much, and yet I still receive the same.
It will be tough work if they just pinpoint every gambler who loses much and they will probably pay a lot of employees to do that kind of job.

[blomen]

i believe that casinos analyze the gambling habits of their members. for example, i think that they do not throw a promotion, an offer to a person at a random time. for example, if someone who receives his salary on the 1st of the month gambles with some of this money that week, they may be making the best offers at this time of each month. so they may know who has the money to gamble when, when they tend to gamble.

i think they also know and analyze what kind of strategy someone who gambles follows, whether they are aggressive or calm. in the end, they need to act according to everyone's playing habits in order to make the most profit.

[Pandu Geddon]

Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

Every casino surely plans its promotions for its customers based on activity, but casinos can also offer promotions for all customers. For example, special promotions for customers who have not been active for a certain period, or promotions for customers who are active in certain games, such as slots or sports betting. Casinos certainly have targets every time they launch promotions for customers. I think there is no specific intention to target vulnerable gamblers to continue draining their money. Therefore, gamblers must understand not to bet beyond their limits.

[Charles-Tim]

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

What I noticed when I left fiat casinos was that they were sending me bonuses that they were not sending me before. I left before they began sending me the bonuses because they just want me to come back gambling. I do not know if your question would be answered as yes but I know that gambling sites are targeting gamblers that are no more using their sites like before also which is opposite of your question.

[Odohu]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

If a casino identify a vulnerable gamble, what do you think they will do to such person? A second thought about your post make one set of gamblers qualify perfectly for this which is the addicted gamblers. Casinos offering promotions does not target anyone or any set of gamblers in particular, they do it generally to attract people. They even have various VIP packages that are not aimed at exploiting anyone but to make their platform attractive for people. Therefore, I do not think that casinos keep data of addicted gamblers and offer them special kinds of promotions in order to exploit them.

[vanesha]

if the casino is big scale, they will not have time to look at the statistics of their users, but they often send bonuses to their users who have been inactive for a long time, they just keep their users, the bigger the casino, the fairer it is

[Reatim]

Casinos might choose to give you a free spin or bonus based on your commitment and how frequently you gamble in their casino. However, your tier also depends on how often, you will get bonuses from the casino.

this is beneficial for the gambler but ultimately still beneficial to the casino as well because with a free spin or a bonus you will just spend your money on their platform again

Some casinos, when you are in the VIP tier, at the end of the week, they give you back some percentage from your losses, so that you can gamble and wouldn't feel your losses that much.

as i have read before how this percentage will just be spent by you making another bet so at the end it is still really the casino that wins even if you get a little bit out of it or better yet you win on a lottery

[uneng]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

I guess casinos target gamblers who spend more money on their platforms, despite them being more vulnerable or not. It can be that a determined gambler bets a lot, because he he is wealthy and can afford doing so, what means he isn't vulnerable. As consequence, the casino will try to make his eyes shine with promos, offers and extra benefits.

Meanwhile, a vulnerable gambler may be gambling little, but more than he can afford to lose. At same time, he isn't the main target of the casino, as he isn't giving a large profit to the company.

The most dangerous situation is when there is a rich gambler who is also vulnerable, impulsive and prone to develop an addiction. However, the casino won't care about it at all, unless that gambler decides self-excluding himself, so the casino has to cooperate with the gambler by not allowing him to play anymore, neither sending promos and offers to his email.

[Samlucky O]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

Casino is a business, and in every business there must be profit and loss. So people who lose in casino are just not lucky enough, and perhaps gambling is programmed in a way that it is very difficult to win, and gamblers already know that and they keep gambleing. So if they still keep on gambling and losing, then it's not the fault of the Casino or the casino is not targeting their vulnerebility but the fault of the gamblers who chose to continue despite knowing that there is more loses than win. It's a matter of choice and not by Force. It's just like alcohol business, people who sell it are doing their business and they don't care if you drink overdose of it. They can only give you bonus as a regular customer but not the level of your lose but how much you petronise them. At times casino does it for  promotion purpose because every business have the strategy to grow to another level and this includes bonuses to attract more users and not for addicted personn.

[Reatim]

Casinos might choose to give you a free spin or bonus based on your commitment and how frequently you gamble in their casino. However, your tier also depends on how often, you will get bonuses from the casino.

this is beneficial for the gambler but ultimately still beneficial to the casino as well because with a free spin or a bonus you will just spend your money on their platform again

Some casinos, when you are in the VIP tier, at the end of the week, they give you back some percentage from your losses, so that you can gamble and wouldn't feel your losses that much.

as i have read before how this percentage will just be spent by you making another bet so at the end it is still really the casino that wins even if you get a little bit out of it or better yet you win on a lottery

[_act_]

Casinos might choose to give you a free spin or bonus based on your commitment and how frequently you gamble in their casino. However, your tier also depends on how often, you will get bonuses from the casino.

this is beneficial for the gambler but ultimately still beneficial to the casino as well because with a free spin or a bonus you will just spend your money on their platform again

Not even a bonus can make someone to be addicted to gambling, it is another thing entirely that is causing addiction or spending much money on gambling. What that mainly cause addiction or waste of money on gambling sites because the gambler is trying to earn money from the gambling site and which is very wrong. Bonus is a good thing that are given to gamblers to enjoy more of the games that they like playing.

[alegotardo]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

Yes, they do!

And not only online casinos, but also land-baseds use systems to analyze data and segment their players. This way, they always know who's playing, how much they are playing and which games too. and... they also know, of course, how much they're winning and losing.
I would not say it's a way to identify vulnerable players, but rather "high-value" ones... these players arenot always rich, but they still spend a lot of money and time playing.

I even have an idea of how they identify this type of player... those who make frequent deposits, those who continue playing after big losses, and those who spend an lot of time playing regardles of the outcome.

Obviously... those who make more deposits or (and) play more receive more promotions and bonuses than others... this is standard on any casino.

And as for whether it's illegal... I'd say no! Every company (not only cassinos) conducts these customer analys. If the player is looking to play, then offer what they're looking for and encourage them. The person responsible for maintaining healthy and responsible gaming is the gambler themselves.

[Slow death]

Do casinos specifically target vulnerable gamblers? When I say vulnerable gamblers, I mean those who tend to gamble a lot and usually loses more. Casinos surely have the statistics for this and they can identify which users might be more vulnerable. My question is do they take advantage of this and show them promos that will make them want to gamble more? Are they more persistent towards these users? Or do they just give everyone the same kind of promo and treat everyone the same no matter what?

And if casinos really do treat vulnerable gamblers more, is it ethical?

Casinos don't have crystal balls, they don't have superpowers to read people's minds. They just do marketing, offering promotions and bonuses they think people will like. Casinos also post warnings that people should gamble responsibly. I've seen casinos post warnings like "Play in moderation." Casinos aren't here to harm people; people should take care of their mental health.

If you have mental health issues, you shouldn't gamble. If you have problems with another addiction or can't afford to spend certain amounts of money on entertainment, you shouldn't get involved in gambling. Unfortunately, many people don't listen, even with many warnings, they don't listen.

[DaNNy001]

Im not entirely sure of this but every gambler has their own promos they are being offered based on their staking power... casinos can give an enticing offer to a user that makes huge deposits just To keep them in the game... Majority of casinos offer promos to every user but like I said it's based on the amount of money that they stake with, this isn't idea because to some people it makes them more addicted