GAMBLING NEWS & INFORMATION

Prof Finds Campus Gambling Addictions Prevalent

Yi Li started playing poker online during his freshman year in his Hagerstown dorm room. At first he only played a couple hours a day, but eventually the same game that made him $6,000 over two semesters became an addiction. "I used to play instead of doing my schoolwork. I started falling behind," the senior math and physics major said.

The Neuroscience of Gambling

Harrah's New Orleans, the largest casino in the city, is on pace for its best year ever: gambling revenue is up 13.6 percent through the first five months of 2007 compared with the same period in 2005, pre-Katrina. The casinos in this region are generating more revenue – from significantly fewer players – in large part because of the extra money that many area residents have in their pockets and fewer alternatives on where to spend it, casino executives and others in the region say. 

Underage and Out of Luck:
As Internet gambling grows, more teens are logging on - and losing it all

Alex M. played his first hand of Texas Hold ‘Em about three years ago, in a friend’s basement on a rainy afternoon in Long Island, N.Y. It was love at first flop. Before long he was sacrificing sleep to all-night sessions in illegal card clubs and Internet poker rooms. Barely a year later, his losses totaled more than $10,000. He was 18 years old. He hadn’t yet graduated from high school. 

Study Provides New Understanding of Excessive Gambling

People process information about financial loss through mechanisms in the brain similar to those used for processing physical pain, according to a new imaging study. The results could provide a new understanding of excessive gambling.