Archive for the 'Addiction' Category
Nice one buddy… you’re parents might murder you.
A 16 year old boy from Granada has generated a debt of 48,000 € using his parents credit cards on an internet virtual casino.
The Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated Gamblers, FEJAR, spokesman, Jorge Barroso, says that the boy ran up the debt on the parents credit card, and such […]
from GamingAlerts.co.uk:
Charles Barkley is going back to Las Vegas to hit the tables again, but this time it’s all in the name of charity. The TV personality and former NBA superstar will be testing his poker skills in a celebrity poker tournament, “Ante Up for Africa,” 2 July at the 2008 World Series of Poker.
Although […]
From the AP:
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Retired NBA star Charles Barkley will face criminal charges if he doesn’t repay a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas casino, a prosecutor said Thursday.
“We’re in the process of sending Mr. Barkley notice that we’re considering filing a criminal complaint,” Clark County District Attorney David Roger said. “He’ll […]
from United Press International:
Gambling is widespread among U.S. adolescents and young adults ages 14 through 21, a University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions study reveals.
Principal investigator John W. Welte said the results of the first national survey of its kind show problem gambling — described as gambling with three or more negative consequences, such […]
from GamblingPlanet.org:
England midfielder David Bentley has admitted he had a gambling problem that threatened to wreck his career. Blackburn football club star Bentley was hooked on gambling when he was a teenage youth player at Arsenal and would place up to 100 bets a day on horse racing, greyhound racing and play internet poker.
“I […]
Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) February 11, 2008 — Dual Diagnosis is a term commonly used to describe the treatment of drug addiction in conjunction with a mental disorders like depression or bi-polar disorder but addiction treatment specialists now urge the use of dual diagnosis for the treatment of a much wider array of addictions.
Up to […]
Montreal, QC (PRWEB) July 5, 2007 - Everest Poker http://www.everestpoker.com today announces the winners of the fifth Round 3 Everest Poker Avalanche qualifying tournament, held on 30 March. Of these, 17 players qualified to move on to the September 17th online finale for the Everest Poker Avalanche.
“The online finale is going to be an […]
MEGA MILLIONS, June 27 /PRNewswire/ — Lucky players nationwide continue to win big with Mega Millions. In Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, a total of 537,734 tickets from coast to coast won prizes. Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the jackpot, the jackpot grows to an estimated $91 million for the Friday, June […]
VIENNA, Austria, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — To date, only speculations have been available to guide our understanding of the scale of gaming and problematic gaming behaviour among online sports betting. Now the initial results of a unique, broad-based study investigating the gaming behaviour of online players are available, which begins to shed light on the […]
LONDON, May 9 /PRNewswire/ — Nowadays, tragic stories about people losing their livelihoods and families fuelled by excessive gambling are dime and a dozen…well, what if it were the other way round? What if you could make a small fortune and find a partner playing online money games?
It takes a few ingredients: first find a […]