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Online Casinos Put Professor’s Life on
Hold
A fifty year old lecturer
from Edinburgh recently published an editorial about online casinos and
gambling addiction in the online version of BBC News and told her first
hand story about addiction to online casinos and the way it can change
her life.
The lecturer, Carol, recounted her gambling history and the influence of
online casinos in a candid look into the hearts and minds of online
casinos addicts. The online casinos industry is a $12 billion dollar a
year industry, and with thousands of online casinos competing for
consumers, many people are in danger of falling into addiction. Because
of online casinos, Carol says that happened to her. She was affected for
three years.
In her treatise on online casinos she said that before the online
casinos craze she was a social gambler, verging on a heavy social
gambler. Slot machines, going to the bingo, and playing the lottery.
She discussed her entry into the poker world and world of online
casinos: “About three years ago, I met some women in the casino that I
used to go to and they were quite interested in playing poker. I didn't
know how to play the game so I looked on the internet and started to
play for points. I thought it was quite easy so I started playing for
money.”
Carol said that the fiscal losses weren’t too terrible at the online
casinos she played at, instead it was the frequency with which she
played at online casinos that took a toll for the worse.
“My real problem was in the number of hours I spent playing. I would
stay up until 4am, 5am or 6am. Sometimes it would run to two or three
days at a time - I wouldn't go to bed. If I had 20 minutes in the
morning before work I would spend that time playing poker. It also
affected my work. I'm a lecturer and I would finish class early so that
I could come home. The only thing that was in my mind was to get back
onto the web to play - it was total compulsion.”
Her husband finally gave her an ultimatum to quit online casinos, or he
would leave her.
But she continued frequenting online casinos, “For about three or four
months I didn't use my credit card so, instead, I used my daughter's
bank card. The whole thing about gambling and gamblers is that it's a
solitary occupation - all of us are in our own little world. There's
only superficial contact because we're far too focused on what the next
hand is. I think for me it was about just doing it - the excitement, the
buzz, the rush.”
The lecturer entered counseling and began dealing with her addiction.
But it wasn’t easy. She said, “Because it was difficult to co-ordinate
with my counselor, the sessions weren't that regular.” In the end, she
has dealt with her problems. But addiction is real.
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