World Series Poker Addiction, Gambling

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Casinos aren't the only places you'll find compulsive gambling. Carnival games, scratch tickets and even a community raffle can offer a fix to people mesmerized by games of chance. What for many is one of a host of pastimes has turned from a recreation into a pathological behaviour.

Gambling -- in the technical definition -- is present throughout society. Investments, usually valued according to their calculated "risk," and other economic speculations involve placing money in support of companies, organizations and ideas. Gaming, such as what occurs in a casino or a bingo hall, is not unlike what takes place on the stock exchange floor.

Most people are able to gamble without risking a psychological addiction. Just as many people can have a glass or two of wine with dinner, so can they buy a lottery ticket, visit a racetrack, or spend an evening playing bingo in the local hall. For others, the tickets, visits and evenings spent wagering are like a money pit into which they end up tossing their entire life's security.

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[Yuzdepski]

obviously you aren't addicted to brushing your teeth

[preachinshawn]

Good points.

Who is gonna be on their death bed saying "I wish I would have made a little more money".

[itssimpleiwinyoulose]

@DirtyBird760 many consistent winners are addicted. But because they treat it seriously and do well, its not a "problem".

[pufixas]

I just love poker :D

But I not only play for real money... Its just fun!

[DirtyBird760]

what if u gamble for a living.. is that addiction?

[93simonk]

@preachinshawn Willy Loman, Death of a Salesman?

[Harnas31]

Great thanks

[bedminster2]

Clear, lucid genius!

[ggnub100]

lol @ yuzdepski

[sonicoliver]

what's this got to do with world series?