What is the reason why gambling dependence arises? Successful strategies of casinos and manufacturers

ByBass_nroll

There are a total of 1000 casinos in 40 states in the United States, and the amount of money bet by users is about 37 billion dollars (about 4 trillion yen) in one year. This amount has become unexpectedly high in other entertainment industries such as sports events (about 1.9 trillion yen) and movies (about 1.16 trillion yen). However, in the back of the popularity of casinos, there are a lot of people who fall into gambling addiction, and among them there are people who are too gamble and driven to suicide. There is an opinion that such gambling addiction is created not only by the player's own responsibility but also by casino and manufacturer's skillful strategy.

How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts - The Atlantic
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According to The National Council on Problem Gambling tackling social problems due to gambling, one out of every five people who got gamble addiction suicide, which is the highest suicide rate among all addictions It is said that there is. There are many cases of suicide concerning gambling, such as police officers shooting their heads with a handgun at the casino and killing themselves, 24-year-old students killing themselves in Las Vegas and committing suicide.

There are also people who fail to additively to gambling even in wealthy people. A man who was a COO of one company met gambling at Las Vegas where he came in by work and got into the casino with about 520 million yen in casino in a year, and it is not limited to that alone, but a hand to the company's money There was a case of finally leaving the family and committing suicide.

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It is the slot machine that most of gambling addiction plays. However, unlike the old slot machine, the modern one is called a video slot or video poker, and it is said that it is easy to fall into addiction due to its high shooting ability. Mr. Terry Nofinger says that he served as a bereaved lawyer for the bereaved family of those who committed suicide with gambling addiction, said, "Manufacturers developing video slots and video poker, It is clear that the manufacturer intentionally tried to make players addictive, "he says.

In the old slot machines, the probability of a jackpot called jackpot was about 10648, but the video slot was one of 137 million. It seems that the probability is low because of the low probability, but the probability of 1/137 million one is probably impossible to hit but it is not an exaggeration. However, the recent slot machines are psychologically psychologically saying, "It was awfully amusing, perhaps it was awesome," it was said to the players that by skillfully producing "just before jackpot" "sketchy patterns do not get right" It has been designed to continue to influence and keep you playing. Also, when the slot machine's direction "a little bit big hit" took place, in the human brain "almost the same reaction as when you hit" occurred, the player "won" rather than "lost" I feel it.

Speediness is one of the reasons that video slots and poker machines are gambling that is prone to addiction. Video slots and poker machines can play without stopping from one to the next in about a few seconds, but this short playing time gives players less time to think "I should stop it" It is said that he is contributing to continuing to play. Also, experts say that if you continue to play at speeds of a few seconds, players will enter a "special zone" like a state of death. If you enter this zone, players forget about troubles and past traumas, sometimes they will continue to play for dozens of hours, and the problem of not eating or keeping children leaving in the car It may be the cause of creating.

ByThomas Hawk

Besides this, a mechanism that acts directly on the brain is applied to contemporary video slots and poker machines, and the player falls into addiction that can not be stopped without wanting to know while is.

It is pointed out that not only video slots and poker machines but also casinos have problems with players becoming gambling addiction. The business plan of the casino is created not based on a glance like a traveler but based on customers like gamblers like patrons coming like everyday, and on the casino side to keep playing by the patrons various That is why he is devising his strategy.

The casino is familiar with the point that Patron feels as "I'm about to end it soon." This is called "Pain Point". Tracking the movement of the patron within the casino and offering free credits, drinks and meals at the restaurant when the patron is likely to reach the pain points such as "when you lose big" or "when the tip is near zero" about. Sometimes it sometimes talks to "I can win and get back." This strategy seems to be effective even when irritated customers are going to hit the machine around the patrons or complain and it seems likely to lower the patron 's motivation.

Also, we may lend money to the patron where the casino used up its money. Mr. Nof singer defended Jenny Keephart, who played all night in the casino, exhausted all the money he had, but Mr. Kefeat, the casino wanting to quit, is blank I proposed a check, that is, the casino proposed to lend money to keep Kepphart gambling. Mr. Keephart borrows about 13.6 million yen in cash from the casino overnight and eventually gets used all by gambling. After that, the casino appealed Mr. Kephart without payment ability, but the complaint was dismissed.

ByRoxanne Ready

People who fall into gambling addiction can not easily stop gambling at their own will. Although gambling addiction does not take specific ingredients like drug addiction, action on nerve and psychology is similar to drug and alcoholism. There are also indications that "casinos should be banned from entering such gambling addiction people". Although it is said that it is self-responsibility to get into gambling, there seems to be one aspect that casinos and makers are putting players into gambling for profit.