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It took Tony Franklin just 59 minutes to squander £3,500 on high-speed, high-stakes gambling machines in his local Coral bookmakers. Losing the money was easy. Thirteen days before Christmas, he walked up to the counter, swiped his debit card and spent £500 picking the wrong numbers on electronic roulette.... -
More than a third of people playing high-speed, high-stakes betting machines experience problems with their gambling, according to industry-funded research released on Wednesday. The study involving 4,000 gamblers, which was commissioned by the Responsible Gambling Trust, revealed alarmingly high levels of problem gambling with high-stakes. FOBTs have been dubbed...
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Professional Players’ Federation study shows 6.1 per cent of professional sportsmen have gambling problems Twice as many again ‘at risk’ according to new research Gambling addiction linked to poor on-field displays and match-fixing risk Study interviewed almost 350 players across football and cricket Hundreds of professional footballers and cricketers...
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Bet365, the Stoke-based bookmaker whose adverts are fronted by the actor Ray Winstone, has grown into one of the world’s largest online gambling businesses, helped by Chinese punters, who risk prison terms by betting via the group’s website. The company – which is also known in Britain for funding...
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A multimillion-pound levy on all sports betting is being considered by Labour with the revenue ploughed back into grassroots sports. Some of the funds would also be used to tackle problem gambling. The proposal is set out in a new “sport for all” document issued by Harriet Harman, the shadow...
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Os viciados em jogos são sobretudo homens abaixo dos 50 anos, com sintomas depressivos e suicidas, que vão a casinos ou jogam na Internet, revelaram hoje, em Torres Vedras, especialistas em comportamentos aditivos e dependências. No congresso do Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências (SICAD), o... -
My 25-year-old son is depressed and in the habit of gambling. His manual job seems to get him down and he feels worthless as in our family both parents are graduates, as is his younger sister – he feels the only way out of his “inadequacy” is going to... -
Eugene Farrar combed his hair, put on his best suit and polished his shoes. He wanted to make sure he looked the part for the moment he chose to turn his life around. On a spring afternoon last year, the 42-year-old calmly walked into a betting shop in Knaresborough,...
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O Supremo Tribunal de Justiça confirmou a condenação do Casino de Espinho ao pagamento de uma indemnização de 82.893 euros a um cliente viciado no jogo, que em dois anos ali “destruiu” uma fortuna. A seu pedido, o cliente tinha sido proibido pela Inspeção Geral de Jogos (IGJ) de...
