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Iowa Reports More Gambling Trouble
this Year
Iowa has announced
that more people have been using their gambling addict’s hotline
suggesting that the amount of gambling addicts around has grown in
number. The one eight hundred number 1-800-BETS-OFF has stated that they
have never had so many people calling as they have this year and they
are worried about the dramatic increase.
This hotline has suggested that the dramatic increase is due to two very
different reasons. First, the Iowa land based casinos have introduced
new table games in their casinos as well as new slot games that feature
the latest technology and graphics, especially in the video slots. This
has caused more Iowa residents to be excited about the casinos and to
come rushing in; including the people that should not be in casinos.
People that have abandoned casinos returned because of the new features
and many recovering gambling addicts returned as well.
Another factor that has made the Iowa hot line busier is because of
online casinos. As online casinos have expanded in the market more and
more US citizens are playing and some are getting addicted. Online
casinos everywhere use enticing marketing in order to dare in players
and Iowa’s stats show that they are big players in online casinos.
The land based casinos in Iowa are a distance away from the busiest
areas and playing in online casinos seems more practical for certain
people. Iowa citizens have come to online casinos to solve the distance
problems and to receive the promotions and bonuses that online casinos
offer. There was a time in Iowa’s recent history that the popularity of
casinos had settled down and people had stopped using casinos so much.
These present time days have resulted in an increase in casinos users
both in land based casinos and in online casinos.
Iowa has announced that they have put many people into gambling
treatment programs and they state that about 60,000 people in Iowa are
compulsive gamblers. They have not made statements regarding if the
60,000 addicted gamblers are comprised mostly of land based casinos
addicts or online casinos addicts.
The Iowa Gambling Treatment Program representative has stated that the
centre is actually happy about the increase in phone calls because it
suggests that people are reaching out for help in their time of need.
The county attorney of Iowa, Mike Mahaffey has stated that there are
also many crimes associated with addicted gamblers both land based and
in online casinos. The type of crime associated with land based and
online casinos differs a lot but it exists in both streams of the
industry. Online casinos have also been scrutinized as not monitoring
the age of the player’s close enough and his being accomplices to
underage online casinos gambling. Online casinos hotlines have also been
suggested as a new venture and may even be featured on the online
casinos themselves. The online casino industry needs to show their
support as well to those people addicted to gambling because it is a
serious problem.
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