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SPORTS BETTING: Although sports wagering is illegal in every state except Nevada it is so common that nearly every large office has an annual sports pool of some kind. Kids are exposed to sports wagering at an early age, and are often introduced to it by family members while watching sports. Betting on a sporting event can make it seem more exciting. A game between a college in South Dakota against another team from Hawaii suddenly becomes interesting to a person living in Colorado. Many people bet on sports without problems and enjoy doing so. I recall my father betting a small amount on the annual UCLA-USC football game when I was 11 years old. However, sports wagering has another side to it. It is a massive money making business, with many bookies and internet wagering sites making more money that anyone can even fathom. Surely it is these business men who are getting rich off of the sports gambler.
Unlike most forms of gambling, sports wagering is typically conducted without any immediate need to pay for the wager. So unlike putting a 100 dollars on the blackjack table, the sports gambler can put a large bet on a team and not have any money to back the bet up. This creates a situation where they owe the bookie and builds a dependent parasitic relationship between the gambler and the bookie. Losses are not collected for up to a week (the dreaded Monday or Tuesday meeting) and causes the indebted gambler to become desperate to create money. In some cases huge levels of interest are charged by loan sharks or the bookies themselves. Although they rarely are as violent as projected in the movies, it can get ugly.
I have personally spoken with professional athletes and read reports from the professional odds makers in Vegas who state emphatically that it is impossible to sustain a constant winning streak over a long period of time. In the end, nearly every frequent sports bettor, who is placing a lot of wagers will lose. I often think that if Pete Rose can win by betting on baseball, I really doubt that anyone could. I have had patients report huge wins, over 50 thousand dollars in one day, but they lose the winnings.
For some gamblers, sports wagering may involve a very high degree of mental activity prior to the bet, this greatly increases the resiliency of the addiction. Sports gamblers often feel that they really understand the sports (many of my patients are former high school and college star athletes) and so think they have a better chance at picking the team correctly. Tracking the teams on ESPN.com, radio and sports pages. are common. For some sports gamblers, watching the events is a also an important part of their week, although not all sports gamblers will watch the game, most will track the score in some manner. This mental preoccupation needs to be addressed in treatment, and is similar to horse racing in this aspect. In addition, there is a very strong compulsive checking of game outcomes that occurs with this type of gambling due to the long delay between placing a bet and the outcome. Patient tell me about tracking the games while attending family events, at dinner, while at plays or the theater, and even hiding in the bathroom. This behavior really tips off the family to the gambling behavior.
The action on sports is substantial. Large wins and losses are possible in a single day and the rush of picking a group of winning teams can be tremendous. The financial damage and stress to families is also tremendous. An innocent and harmless behavior can and does become massively destructive. The sports gambler often feels that they can soon repair the damage, and often does not realize the harm they are doing to themselves and those around them. When the size of the wager increases over time, when multiple teams are being bet on, when aspects of the gambling are hidden from others (e.g., wager size, number of bets), when multiple sports types are bet on (e.g., betting on more than one type of sport), when there are financial problems and bookie debt, when there is excessive sports watching over other events and when it becomes viewed as a supplemental source of income there is an increased likelihood of a problem. Betting on sports like hockey and professional golf are unusual behaviors for the average non-problem sports gambler. The intensity of the problem usually increases over time without intervention.
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Card Games: Have a strong social aspect while video/slots gambling is more isolating. This can be an important aspect of the behavior to consider when understanding the meaning of the gambling to the person. Access to local card clubs in California have increased tremendously in the past few years. Many gamblers have found 'gaming' locations near their homes or work. This access hurts gamblers who find themselves just stopping in for a while. I have found that a lot of card gamblers struggle with lying to themselves: ' I will only go for an hour or two.. I will only bet a few hundred dollars..' these limits are usually quickly broken. Wins are recalled much more frequently than losses. Many card gamblers will resort to playing when they feel they need more money for household bills. Some will start to play higher stakes games when they are more desperate to win. 'I can go make a quick hit and leave' is the hopeful thought, but the winnings are often used to gamble more. At this time there is a HUGE increase in the number of people with problems relating to poker. This is clearly a function of the media hype, for example a recent radio ad was saying that I should petition the world Olympic Association to allow poker as a sport.
Of all the forms of gambling, poker is one of the most complex and sophisticated, and because there is the ability to win even with a bad hand, there is much more skill involved. Although this is NOT true for video poker. In addition, there is a greater ability for someone to be a professional poker player as compared to something like slot machines or sports betting. Still, I have had two casino card dealers tell me that eventually the house does take a lot of the money off the table. In addition, this form of gambling is causing HUGE problems because so many people think that they can engage in it successfully when only a few can. It seems that even those that can successfully play poker and consistently earn money are not compulsive and very well controlled. The problem is that most of my patients that are poker players have is that they not play tight the entire night and lose control at some point. Also, the investment of time is killing their lives. The damage that this 'sport' is causing people in California is tremendous.
In many ways blackjack is even more problematic. Many people have never heard of the game called Faro. Faro was the most popular gambling in the USA in the 1800's. Now it is gone. The reason it was popular was that is appeared at first that a person could win, but the more a person played the more it was clear that they could not. Granted that many of the games were also fixed did not help this any. Still, the game that was the biggest fad is now gone. I think a reason that Blackjack is so problematic for compulsive gamblers is idea that if played perfectly they can win and beat the house. But unless you are an MIT student, this is usually impossible. Blackjack is the faro of today's casino. Have you ever seen a casino that sells books on how to play blackjack correctly in their gift shop ? Ever wondered why would they sell this??? It creates the illusion that you can study the game and win more. While you can win more, it still isnt going to be more than the MGM will win if you play more than a few hands.
Horse Track Gambling: I have found that this is the most difficult form of gambling to treat. The illusion of being able to pick the right horse based on statistics is so compelling and the odds provide a big hit when the horse comes in, making this a very hard type of gambling to stop. 'I enjoy relaxing at the track' is a common excuse for track gamblers. Often the damage to their families is substantial to the point where they remain single or are divorced. It is very important for the horse gambler to stop tracking races in the papers once they stop. Big events like the Kentucky Derby are marketing tools by the industry to pull gambler's in and create a 'buzz' in the sports world.
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Introduction
Gambling has been around for a long time. Many people fail to understand among the earliest and dominant forms of entertainment is gambling. Evidence is there to support that there were gambling activities in ancient civilizations. It turns out that the activity has been around for ages.
Information provided in the famous encyclopedia Britannica, is that gambling was severely curtailed and regulated in the laws of ancient China and Rome too. The uncurable gamblers from Egypt were subjected to forced labor. Gambling was also a point of interest to the ancient Greeks. Minoan civilization was first to introduce games that were much similar to the casino poker.
While today gambling serves as a hobby to some, back then it was an integral part of cultural and religious traditions.
Gambling in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
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When speaking of ancient civilizations, you have to mention Egypt and Mesopotamia. Scientific knowledge has it that humans decided to leave their nomadic lifestyles and settle in Mesopotamia. It is no wonder why the earliest evidences relating to gambling were discovered here.
Little is known on the gaming artifacts that were discovered here but it is believed that most of them involved betting on their outcome. Among the prominent gaming items discovered include a four-sided Astragali – also called knucklebones.
These artifacts were made of animal talus bones but were then recreated using other materials like metal, wood and stone. This was what was used as dices back then before the six-sided was created. The dice and knucklebones were also used by ancient Egyptians.
Before gambling these artefacts were used to make communications with the gods. Ancient Egyptians believed that when the die was thrown it would reveal answers to some specific questions.
A discovery made in 2012 proved that the ancient civilizations in Egypt also used a 20-sided die. It is not known what the purpose for this die was however. The Egyptians just like several other civilizations found great pleasure and value in gaming which made them start using dice in games. The dice was widely used more so in the earliest board game – Senet, which means “the game of passing.”
Historians however, have never come to terms with the rules of the game. The historians reconstructed the terms of the Royal Game of Ur which was a board game discovered in 1920s in the Royal Tombs of Ur. The game was also played in Egypt but using the name Asseb.
Gaming in Primitive China
All through China has been and is still the gambling capital as far as the Far East is concerned. Despite the banning of games of chances in China for extended periods, many gamblers have always seen the country as a mecca to bet on their money. Majority of historians even believe that gambling can be traced to have originated from Ancient China. This also supports the fact that most popular games in Asia originated from China.
Gambling has been in existence during the Xia dynasty’s reign which was in 1900-1600 B.C. Most nations however, were aware of the risks of gambling supposing it turned to be an obsession. That, therefore, ensured games of chances were put under stringent control or even banned like in Ancient China.
The ancient Chinese people never ceased playing even after it was banned and finally the country legalized the sport. It was only legalized as it would generate income for the country from the gamblers free will to play instead of additional taxes on citizens.
China’s entrenched gambling culture explains why several of the most famous games of chance started from there. These games include poker, keno, blackjack among others. China is also responsible for inventing playing cards.
Mental Effects Of Gambling
Gambling in the Americas
Little information has been discovered in regards to gambling in ancient Americas. However, it is clear that the Americas engaged in dice games. Archeologist Barbara Voorhies uncovered an ancient scoreboard used for some dice games or something similar in 2010.
It had a series of holes and was punched on the floor. The artifact was dated 5,000 years old which is the oldest evidence of gambling activities to be found in the Americas. Among the oldest games is the Patolli game in Ancient Americas.
The game was similar to Ludo if you consider its gameplay and board design. However, game of Patolli required two players and the stakes were a bit higher. Every contestant had six markers and they would have to wager one item for each of the six markers. The bet could be placed on food, personal belongings, gold jewelry or precious stones.
Some players would even go to the extreme ends of betting their family, freedom or homes. The game involved as many rounds as possible until one victor emerged who would have won the bet. The game of Patolli only ended after one player had possessed all his opponents’ items and they still have their belongings with them. Gambling activities have been going on in America to date and the why America has some of Largest Casinos in the world and some of the best places to gamble are located in the US.
Conclusion
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Gambling did not start just recently as many would have thought. It has just been transforming as time goes by but the truth is gambling has been around for centuries. Evidence to support these sentiments have been unearthed and documented. China seem to have played a bigger role in the gambling field for a long time now. China is one of most attractive gambling destination around the globe in the current days.