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<blockquote data-quote="dbeverly26" data-source="post: 1930593" data-attributes="member: 515868"><p>You can absolutely regulate this stuff, and we should. There's a big difference between what we used to know as gambling and what it is now. These apps and modern slot/video poker machines are specifically engineered to encourage compulsive gambling whether anyone will admit it or not. (And having worked briefly inside the gaming industry, I can tell you that they're admitting it.) </p><p></p><p>I can never recall the exact figure but there's data out there that suggests a really large portion of wagers are made by a really small sliver of folks who gamble, it's like 1 percent of bettors handling 90-plus percent of the action or something like that. Not that there haven't always been problem gamblers out there but it's just way too easy to fall into that pit with all of the new pathways to place bets available now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dbeverly26, post: 1930593, member: 515868"] You can absolutely regulate this stuff, and we should. There's a big difference between what we used to know as gambling and what it is now. These apps and modern slot/video poker machines are specifically engineered to encourage compulsive gambling whether anyone will admit it or not. (And having worked briefly inside the gaming industry, I can tell you that they're admitting it.) I can never recall the exact figure but there's data out there that suggests a really large portion of wagers are made by a really small sliver of folks who gamble, it's like 1 percent of bettors handling 90-plus percent of the action or something like that. Not that there haven't always been problem gamblers out there but it's just way too easy to fall into that pit with all of the new pathways to place bets available now. [/QUOTE]
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