News tagged with gambling machines
Poker machine revenues hurt by smoking bans, financial crisis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Total smoking bans in pubs and clubs and the global financial crisis are among the factors that have impacted on how much South Australians have spent on poker machines in recent years.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Wanna make a bet that women gamble?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Typical Australian gamblers are no longer just men playing poker, with more women becoming addicted, isolated and even suicidal, a researcher from The University of Queensland has warned.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2010 |
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No limit to pokies problem
Problem gamblers are being created at a rate of almost one for every new poker machine introduced, new research has found.
Jan 08, 2010 |
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Going for broke
(PhysOrg.com) -- Natasha Schull recalls how in the late 1990s she began observing people in Las Vegas transfixed for hours at video poker and slot machines. What, she wondered, kept them glued to machines ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 20, 2009 |
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