Posted on 02/18/2025 6:54:24 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Gambling addiction has soared since the legalization of sports betting in most American states, reveals a new study.
Researchers found a “dramatic” increase in sports betting and gambling addiction help-seeking since the landmark Murphy v. NCAA Supreme Court decision in 2018 paved the way for states to legalize gambling on sports.
Since the ruling, researchers from the University of California San Diego Qualcomm Institute and School of Medicine found a “staggering” growth in the sportsbook industry.
The number of states with operational sportsbooks grew from one in 2017 to 38 last year while total sports wagers skyrocketed from US $4.9 billion in 2017 to $121.1 billion in 2023, with 94% of wagers during 2023 placed online.
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LOL. Great post.
And of course to a degree, Day Trading stocks is a form of gambling.
Another dangerous vice, controlled and distributed by government.
It used to be criminal gangs who controlled the vices of gambling, weed/drugs, pornography, prostitution.
Now leftist government wants a cut of the action.
There actuslly is a morbid group who bet on things like certain flights arriving safely or not- there was an article on it a number of years ago. Can’t remeber the specifics now, or what. Exactly they would bet on, but i remember that it was pretty sick.
The first time I saw the name “Only Fans” in the news (I think it was to state that a rapper girl was on it), I assumed it was sports betting. Glad I’m not into that either. LOL
They’ve had it in Britain for years, partially explains why Britain is a shell of its former self.
What about FR addiction? I know I can quit anytime! :)
i think the biggest growth industries in colorado are pot and booze: there’s now a pot shop on practically every other corner and an “artisanal” brewery in between each pot shop ...
getting high now seems to be colorado’s number one recreation ...
oh, and colorado also has “limited” legal casino gambling ...
prostitution is still illegal ... so far ...
Rocky Mountain High, indeed.
Shocking. Just shocking ….
When you can bet on virtually any aspect of a game (prop bets) at any time from your phone or tablet or laptop or PC, what did they think was going to happen? Meanwhile the sports books and the government rake in revenue.
Gambling comes and goes as a fad in this country. It always ends in scandal. The advent of cell phones has this round growing on steroids. Practically every young man I know is constantly betting on obscure basketball games, or horse, or football. It’s epidemic. And yes, there is too much money floating around to NOT breed corruption of officials and/or players.
It’s not going to end well.
I watch online poker and have watched their “super stars” win and lose vast vast fortunes, millions in an evening of gsmb,ing, with folks they were pleading agaisnt pleading with them to stop for the evening.
One of the biggest “super stars” in poker, Phil Ivey- a multi multi millionaire, was caught cheating the system after having discovered card patterns on the back of cards which revealed what someone was dealt. He and his partner kept it secret for a long time and won many millions until an I vestigetion into their “good fortune” took place and the defects in the cards were discovered by others. He did a LOT of damage to the industry, and other so called super stars did too, bilking customers put of millions. Full tilt poker was subject to massive fraud by another “super star” and his pals. Several big names got exposed.
And of course the rumors that Michael Jordan really didn’t ‘retire’ on his own volition from the NBA, the first time around.
Gambling addiction is an addiction to losing.
Very few people have heard that truth and fewer still accept it. But it is obvious and provable. Psychologists know it. It is the same underlying psychological force that causes the seemingly inexplicable phenomenon that battered women repeatedly choose violent and sadistic men. Sadly, it is because it is what they want. They just don’t know it consciously.
And, almost all gamblers lose. Some more, some less, But odds are odds. Of course, there are a few lucky winners who are also compulsives, but they are really few and far between.
According to my boss, fantasy football is a year round activity. I’ll let someone else take my place in our office league next year. It just doesn’t interest me.
Very intelligent people, geniuses, usually in math or risk/reward analysis. Poker players especislly- they do work hard at “learning their profession”, but still they are profiting mostly off of the “fish” as they call them, folks that don’t know how to play expertly, and who lose much of the time. That is the real bread and butter for professional gamblers in poker and a few other “skill based” games of chance.
It’s a form of masochism.
Good post
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