Online Blackjack Gambling

Category: Online Blackjack Gambling

A survey conducted recently by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions shows the overall availability of gambling in online casinos has not led to an increase in gambling addicts. The study revealed that internet gambling actually helps people to control the wagering behavior. People seem to have a better overview of their wins and losses.

The project was launched in the beginning of the year 2005. The researchers surveyed about 3.500 customers of a European online casino. Over two years they observed the players’ behavior, the quantity of chips they bought, the amount of money the averagely betted and the outcome they achieved.

The supposition actually stated that online gambling was actually responsible for an increase in gambling addiction due to the fact that the Internet gives the players the opportunity to play at each and every time from anywhere in the world. This, however, turned out to be only hypothetically. Online gambling is not automatically correlated to gambling addiction. Howard Shaffer, Associate Professor of Psychology, actually explains that the first thing they had learned and which they had not at all anticipated was that customers of online casinos usually played in rather moderate and mild way.

The study showed that the majority of poker players wagered $15.65 at 2 poker session per week. Of course they were also people who actually showed excessive gambling behavior but the difference to excessive players in online casinos was not significant. The research tells us that the percentage of people having severe gambling problems has not increased since the Seventies. The number stays close around 0.6% of the American population.

Especially card games like poker and blackjack casino games are considered risk-free games since the players are actually involved in determining the outcome. These games exercise your ability to make the right decisions at the right time.