I am worried about the rise in gambing and bingo sites

[puddicat]

Though i am not much of a gambler it seems these sites are on the increase! feel for any woman or man stuck at home totally fed up, the urge to use these sites must be tempting, and you could end up spending more money than you intended , any abers use them regularly and how do you control what you spend, after all some people could get easily addicted to these!!!!

[Marg0]

I have a big enough problem already with brick&mortar casinos, I think they're a big rip off and a waste of time and money: for the user there is no positive side even in the medium term really, certainly not in the long term. However, there is a civil liberty issue: people get excitement from doing it (to the point of addiction), and they want to do it, and technically speaking (tongue in cheek here), for certain people it can be something they can keep under control (but if they think they're gonna make money from it they are totally mad).
I'm rather see them all gone, I'm glad we didn't let the super casinos in, and I think the USA did the right thing in effectively banning all online casinos. You just cannot let this kind of thing into people's homes, it is too easy to get addicted to them, and too hard to control people's losses for them (like a real casino could/should).
Having said that (lol), I have been in a lot of casinos and a lot of gambling sites (I used to play poker professionally and still put in a couple of hours a day, and made good money from it: but it's not gambling for the most part, mainly skill). Even poker though can become a big loss making activity for many people (most don't know what they are doing). I'd rather see the whole lot shelved.
I mean: a controlled heroin habit does less damage than a hardcore gambling problem, but that is banned 'because of potential harm'.

[winebuyer]

Bet you a tenner I never get hooked on gambling.

[sandrajo]

I've tried a couple of sites and I've always won 'free money' they call it but its just credits, it's meant to lure you into playing with your own money but I've never done it....My sis in law got into a LOT of trouble on a bingo site, she lost a LOT of money and nearly her marriage and home...no one knew till it was nearly to late,,,it's all sorted out now tho. I dabble in poker (and I mean dabble lol) and have been lucky a few times and unlucky, defo couldn't get addicted tho I'm far to nervous I give up after a while.

[daffy654]

I'm too tight fisted to ever be a gambler.lol,I can't afford to lose any money on a bet or any game of chance. I do play the lottery every now and then though.I have a sister who is addicted to the bingo sites,she has had a few largish wins(�1000.00 a few times) but she openly admits she has spent more than that over the years on the sites.