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“Seven states have legalized iGaming — online casino games like slot machines and blackjack. From personal experience, these games are terrifying in how addictive they are. They offer much better margins than sports betting, so major gambling companies will leverage their sportsbooks to dominate this market, just as they leveraged DFS to dominate sports betting. While sports betting can be tweaked to be made safer, iGaming needs to be stopped in its tracks until it can be proven that the games are designed with player safety in mind. And even these games are just the beginning, as young people are caught up in a range of online gambling-adjacent activities, from stock trading and cryptocurrency to video-game skin gambling and loot boxes.”

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Book:Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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Book:Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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“The gamblers must manipulate situations and people in order to maintain their gambling activities. Those who love the gamblers can be easily manipulated and can never win playing the gamblers' games. The gamblers know each person's weaknesses and the moves that will be made before they do.”

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Book:GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
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