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Johnny2X2X

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15. You've touched on something else

Wed Sep 7, 2022, 08:45 AM

Sep 2022

The casinos have legal arms that are the most ruthless debt collectors in existence. And they give credit to gamblers in amounts that they know will ruin them. They do credit and asset checks live and give credit accordingly. They assess how easy it will be for them to seize assets. Local guy in our city owned 3 bars and restaurants, casinos gave him hundreds in thousands on credit, he ended up in jail, and they seized and sold all of his property.

These are very sophisticated operations. They're like mafia loan sharks but instead of muscle they have teams of lawyers waiting to take what they're owed and artificial intelligence to make sure that they're going to be owed no matter how lucky someone gets. They have it down to a science, and now they've taken that science and combined it with the mind control aspects of mobile apps, a lot of people stand no chance.

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The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit [View all] douglas9 Sep 2022 OP

Good article. Sports talk radio used to be dopey pundits overanalyzing FSogol Sep 2022 #1

There is a program for problem gamblers - Gamblers Anonymous Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 #2

Gamblers are looking for something. Aussie105 Sep 2022 #3

--- or just a way to fill time. 3Hotdogs Sep 2022 #5

Seriously, the most effective way to increase your self-esteem is to do something for someone else. Joinfortmill Sep 2022 #18

advertising cigarettes made us all smokers with cancer AZLD4Candidate Sep 2022 #4

and remember onethatcares Sep 2022 #6

A lot of truth to that. Joinfortmill Sep 2022 #20

gambling addiction is so foreign to me, I freaking lose at the tables I get up and go to the buffet JuJuChen Sep 2022 #7

except that you sometimes win. cab67 Sep 2022 #8

I sold lottery tickets at work when Colorado's state lottery began. Harker Sep 2022 #17

I went to Vegas once VWolf Sep 2022 #24

ugg! I hate gambling YoshidaYui Sep 2022 #30

No surprise DownriverDem Sep 2022 #9

The addiction is incredibly powerful Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #10

True! Yet TFG managed somehow to bankrupt 2 casinos. Go figure, the great businessman. Ya sure! machoneman Sep 2022 #14

Everything Trump touches dies. Joinfortmill Sep 2022 #22

Good that you're checking your MIL's phone. cab67 Sep 2022 #16

My own mother Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #19

gambling addiction devastates more than the addict cab67 Sep 2022 #11

You've touched on something else Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #15

I didn't know that. cab67 Sep 2022 #21

The race tracks are the worst Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #25

OMG! How horrible. Joinfortmill Sep 2022 #23

I play the lottery Marthe48 Sep 2022 #12

The unstoppable rise in social media and being "connected" is NoMoreRepugs Sep 2022 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Sep 2022 #26

This is, I think, true across the US. cab67 Sep 2022 #28

I see the commercials for the apps on CNN and MSNBC. Earth-shine Sep 2022 #27

I'm a naive dummy XanaDUer2 Sep 2022 #32

Risk free betting up to $1000 Bristlecone Sep 2022 #29

Risk free!!! Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #31

This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore Sep 2022 #33

Oddly, losing only increases the addiction, as long as there is an occasional win. Midnight Writer Sep 2022 #34