Games for Money

Here are some warning signs that you might have a gambling problem whether it be a gambling addiction for online gambling or offline gambling:

If you’re gambling debts or online accounts are being paid before your bills.
If bill collectors are calling your house but the bookies are not.
If you’re staying up all night playing poker or [...]

Alejandro Barajas started gambling as a teenager and that road took him to a man without a family living on the streets. His story is one that is not mentioned often enough in connection with gambling.

Annie Donnelly, 38 pleaded guilty on Wednesday for stealing more than $2.3 million dollars from Great South Bay Surgical Associates where she was a bookkeeper. Donnelly wasn’t at the gambling tables or betting on horses and sports. She instead became very caught up in scratch-offs and weekly lotteries that can be found in any gas [...]

In another example of how gambling addictions destroy everything it touches 23-year-old Bryan Benjafield in England admitted to police that he stole more than 1 million pounds to support his gambling habit. All of that money was of course taken from his work Charminster Limited in Dorchester where he is or was a book-keeper.
Mr Benjafield [...]

Recently I met someone who I was shocked to learn had gone through gambling addictions. This person was only 17 years old and this started when they were just 14. With the help of the internet, kids as young as 12 and sometimes younger are falling into addictions even with video games.
As a parent we [...]

A survey of Nebraska students showed that most are gambling even at the ages of 10 and under. This increased from the last study done in 2003 and officials believes that it is a factor of a few different reasons such as:

Poker on television
The glamorization of poker
Easy access to gambling online

Experts say that unfortunately the [...]

I guess it makes sense, what with the easy availability of gambling opportunities in Nevada, but I was nonetheless surprised to learn that Nevada’s rate of gambling addiction is more than three times the national average. Seven percent of the residents of Nevada have gambling problems, and there are too few centers to help them.
A [...]

There has been some recent research to show that some people receiving dopamine agonists in the treatment for Parkinson’s disease develop addictive personalities, most notably to gambling but also to eating, drinking, and sex.
Those that were on the drug and had these compulsions stopped all compusions within 4 months of ending the drug treatment.
I’ve always [...]

I realize that I write on this blog, so calling certain google ads into doubt might be shooting myself in the foot, but a link came up for “How to Cheat the Casinos” and I started snorting and giggling so I had to look.
All they require is an email address, and for free, out of [...]