Casino and machines
145 studies in the past 365 days. Tags are assigned automatically from titles and abstracts; a study can carry several.
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All In: A Casino-Themed Emergency Medicine Conference Day
Audience: The target audience includes individuals involved in the education and training of emergency medicine (EM) residents, such as program directors, assistant program directors, core faculty, and academic attendings, as well as learners including residents, physician assistant (PA) fellows, and medical students (MS) …
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A Comparative Study of Topic Modeling Algorithms for Online Reviews: The Case of Casino Integrated Resorts in South Korea (LDA, STM, and BERTopic)
When applying topic modeling to online reviews in tourism and hospitality research, scholars face a largely undocumented decision: which algorithm to use.This study addresses that choice empirically by benchmarking three representative algorithms-Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), the Structural Topic Model (STM; implemented as Dirichlet-Multinomial …
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Casino and Online Self-Exclusion in Canada: Awareness, Uptake, and Compliance
Voluntary self-exclusion (VSE) is a widely available harm-reduction strategy for individuals experiencing gambling-related harm. However, little is known about factors associated with VSE awareness and utilisation, or gambling during the self-exclusion period …
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Casino-Side Kelly Analysis of Roulette: Growth, Fractional Exposure, and Finite-Horizon Risk
Roulette gives a transparent setting for studying how a small statistical advantage can be converted into a controlled level of repeated financial exposure. This study develops a casino-side analysis based on the Kelly criterion, comparing American and European even-money roulette under full, half, and quarter Kelly strategies …
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Widespread Suspected Illegal Advertising of Paid Loot Boxes and Social Casino Games in Belgium: Empowered by the EU Digital Services Act to Assess Compliance Using Meta's Ad Repository
Paid loot boxes and social casino mechanics are gambling-like products inside video games that provide random rewards in exchange for real-world money. These products may cause harm to vulnerable consumers, e.g., children and adults experiencing gambling harms …
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Investigating Outcome Types and Betting Strategies in Roulette: A Simulation Study
Roulette has not received as significant attention in research as other forms of gambling. Where roulette has, betting style is often constrained, reducing ecological validity. The present study sought to understand different betting strategies, potential outcome distributions, and implications for research …
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A Study on the Efficiency Evaluation of Training Programs in Domestic Casino Hotels using IPA Analysis
This study aims to analyze the importance and satisfaction levels of educational service quality perceived by casino hotel employees in Jeju and to identify perceptual differences by work department to derive practical directions for improving casino hotel training programs …
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Lost in Domestication: Arabic Subtitling Norms and the Suppression of Feminist Critique in Casino (1995)
This study examines how the Arabic subtitle track of Martin Scorsese's 1995 film 'Casino' (henceforth, Casino) reconstructs gendered discourse of the film …
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Nudging the uptake of responsible gambling tools among land-based casino players: A randomized controlled trial assessing the utility of incentivization
To test whether a modest incentive increases uptake of a responsible gambling deposit-limit tool among land-based casino players using a digital wallet for electronic gaming machine play and whether reward sensitivity or disordered gambling symptomatology moderates this effect.Method: Participants were 314 U.S …
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การเมองของกระบวนการผลกดนนโยบายบอนกาสโนใหถกกฎหมายในประเทศไทย พ.ศ. 2551-2567
This research article examines (1) the actors involved in the policy advocacy process for casino legalization in Thailand from 2008 to 2024; investigates (2) the political factors through the problem stream, policy stream, and political stream leading to the mobilization of the casino legalization policy in Thailand; and studies (3) an appropriate approach …
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When Entertainment Normalizes Risk: Affective Engagement with Gambling-Themed Media, Permissive Attitudes, and Casino Visit Intention
Gambling is an increasingly normalized leisure activity, yet the role of entertainment media in cultivating favorable gambling attitudes remains understudied, with most evidence concerning advertising and youth rather than entertainment portrayals and adults …
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Comparison of the effectiveness of roulette betting strategies using Monte Carlo simulation
This study presents the performance of seven betting strategies in European roulette via Monte Carlo simulations across 48 scenarios. Performance metrics included mean and median net profit, win and ruin probability, maximum drawdown, VaR and CVaR. Results confirmed that all strategies have negative expected value …
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Experiencescape-Driven Revisit Intentions: Understanding Generation Z Preferences in Casino Integrated Resorts
As casino integrated resorts evolve beyond traditional gaming-centric models, understanding how multidimensional experiencescape attracts Generation Z becomes crucial for industry sustainability …
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Gambling and screening for gambling problems in high school students before and after legal gambling age: associations with gender and gambling-related attitudes
Adolescence is a period associated with increased risk of gambling problems. Although strict age limits should apply in modern digital gambling platforms, gambling in minors remains a challenge …
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Are online poker players motivated to expend effort for monetary rewards?
Motivation in poker players has typically been studied through monetary incentives rather than physical effort expenditure. In this exploratory study we hypothesized that poker players' protected decision-making performance might be associated with a heightened willingness to exert effort for monetary rewards …
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Online Casino Legalization and Onsite Casino Revenue: Evidence from Early Adopters in the United States
This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of online casino legalization on land-based casino revenues in the United States. Exploiting the concurrent 2013 legalization wave in New Jersey and Delaware, our synthetic difference-in-differences specifications estimate a persistent 13% contraction in land-based revenue …
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Moving Up in Stakes in Tournament Poker: A k -means Analysis of Latent Subgroups of Online Poker Players
In tournament poker, skilled and profitable players can increase their stakes (e.g., enter tournaments with higher entry fees) in mathematically logical attempts to win more money faster. There are open questions about what types of players move up in stakes, and if those who move up in stakes are more likely to experience gambling-related problems …
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The Influence of Experience with Electronic Games on Customer Engagement and Loyalty in Casinos
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of customer experience with electronic games on customer engagement and customer loyalty in casinos …
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Research on gambling and gambling harm in Aotearoa New Zealand: a scoping review
Gambling harm is a significant public health issue made more urgent by the rapid growth of online gambling. In Aotearoa New Zealand, gambling access expanded following the introduction of gaming machines in the 1990s and is expected to expand again with the regulation of online casinos …
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Between-session chasing via time of return in online eCasino gambling
Abstract Background and aims Chasing refers to continuing and/or intensifying gambling following losses (loss-chasing) and/or wins (win-chasing). It is commonly captured between sessions, i.e., returning another day/time after losses or wins in prior sessions …
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An analytical autoethnography of poker as professionalized leisure: from a journey in South Korea to implications for Vietnam
This article uses South Korea as an analytical reference point to examine how poker tournaments operate as a form of serious leisure within tightly regulated gambling environments and to reflect on implications for Vietnam’s evolving casino policy …
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Religiosity and support for casinos: an analysis of Ohio’s 2009 referendum
Using a 2009 referendum presented to Ohio voters, we explore county-level support for casino development. Within the median voter framework, we focus our analysis on the association between county religiosity and support for the referendum …
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Stress coping strategies as predictors of job fatigue and psychological health among casino employees in Macao SAR (China)
This study investigates the predictive role of stress coping strategies on job fatigue and psychological health among casino employees in Macao, a sector marked by high emotional labor and irregular work schedules …
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The parallel text in the novel (Casino for Children) by Karwan Omar Kakksur
Contemporary critical research has paid great attention to parallel texts, considering them a major gateway to the world of texts and to understanding, analyzing, and interpreting the main and original texts, especially in the novel …
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On Maximizing the Probability of a Linear Inequality between iid Random Variables
A casino offers the following game: there are three cups each containing a die. You are being told that the dice in the cups are all the same, but possibly nonstandard. For a bet of $1, the game master shakes all three cups and lets you choose one of them …
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Educational interventions for erroneous gambling beliefs among Norwegian online casino players: a large-scale real-world study of behavioural impact
Abstract Background Erroneous beliefs about gambling contribute to the development and maintenance of problem gambling and represent an important public health concern. Norsk Tipping (NT), the state-owned gambling operator in Norway, initiated the Spillepuls project to develop and evaluate preventive interventions for its online customers …
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Hype Finance and Casino Capitalism
Kobe De Keere on prediction markets and their winners and losers.
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Diagnóstico y propuesta de procedimientos de control interno tributario para el cumplimiento de las obligaciones fiscales en casinos del distrito de Santiago, provincia de Veraguas, 2025
This article aimed to analyze the tax internal control procedures implemented by full-service casinos in the district of Santiago, Veraguas Province, during the year 2025, in order to assess their effectiveness in complying with tax obligations …
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Regulatory practices and technology in Macau casinos: Insights from a grounded theory study
This study investigates the regulatory-operational dynamics of Macau casinos using a constructivist grounded theory approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 participants from industry stakeholder groups …
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Percepções sobre Rueda de Casino
Neste artigo discorremos sobre uma dança de origem cubana chamada Rueda de Casino. A partir da perspectiva das três pessoas autoras, apresentamos um recorte no qual se unem três pontos de vista oriundos de experiências em diferentes partes do mundo e que envolvem a prática desta dança e seu ensino …
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Changes in gambling behaviors among young adults in Rhode Island, 2022-2024
The rapid expansion of legalized sports betting and mobile gambling in the U.S. has transformed how gambling is accessed and experienced. Young adults are particularly vulnerable to these changes; however, limited research has examined how gambling behaviors are shifting across multiple modalities during periods of expanding gambling availability …
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Integration of artificial intelligence-based solutions into electronic gaming machines for responsible gambling: a case study of South Africa
The increase in sophisticated electronic gambling products offered by gambling manufacturers facilitates an increase in the accessibility of gambling platforms and modes. This study proposes utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance self-awareness and self-control within electronic gaming machines …
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Digital betting as a commercial determinant of health
Digital betting has changed the public health problem posed by gambling. The decisive shift is not merely from illegality to regulation, or from casinos to sport. It is from an intermittent activity to a continuous commercial exposure …
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Predictors of Intention to Enroll and Enrollment in a Responsible Gambling Pre-commitment Tool
Many casinos have introduced pre-commitment tools that allow electronic gaming machine (EGM) players to set a monetary limit. However, uptake tends to be low. We capitalized on the imminent launch of a pre-commitment tool at a large casino in the Northeastern US to explore factors that predict intention and subsequent enrollment …
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The Impact of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance on Gambling Policies in New South Wales, Australia: The Rise of the Poker Machine
ABSTRACT This study traces how gambling in Australia changed from a simple form of leisure, enjoyed by all social classes in colonial times, to a billion‐dollar industry driven by political and economic imperatives …
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CASINO INTERIOR DESIGN AND THE MANIPULATION OF RATIONAL SELF-REGULATION: THE INFLUENCE OF SPATIAL AND SENSORY DESIGN ON HUMAN PERCEPTION OF TIME AND RISK
Casino environments are deliberately engineered spaces where architecture, lighting, acoustics, and spatial layout converge to shape human cognition and behavior. This paper investigates how casino interior design influences rational self-regulation by altering individuals’ perception of time and risk …
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“Chance Is the Metaphysics of Capitalism”: Martin Scorsese’s Casino as Metaphor for America
During my M.A. studies of film history and theory at New York University, the much-renowned (and sometimes reviled) cinema studies professor Annette Michelson once said something in a seminar room ...
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Study on the Application of AI to Casino Security
4차 산업혁명은 우리의 전체적인 삶과 산업 및 사회 전반의 인식 체계를 변화시켰으며, 이에 따라 AI가 다양한 산업에 도입되고 있다(2025, 문현우). 특히 카지노 산업은 관광산업의 핵심 산업으로 인식되고 있으며, 노동집약적 산업이라는 특징을 갖고 있기 때문에 인적자원의 관리가 매주 중요하다(조성연, 2021). 따라서 인간의 노동력을 대신할 수 있는 AI가 카지노에서 업무를 수행한다면 다양한 영향력을 미칠 수 있다. 본 연구자는 카지노의 안전관리 분야에 주목하고 있으며, 특히 안전을 책임지는 분야에 AI가 도입되어 어떠한 업무를 대신하고 있는지, 그리고 어느 정도의 업무를 처리하고 있는지에 대해 알아보려고 한다 …
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Formal opinion or real influence? The role of local authorities in the casino location procedure – a legal and comparative analysis
The aim of the article is to assess the significance of the requirement to obtain a positive opinion of the municipal council in the procedure for locating casinos and to determine whether it constitutes a real instrument of local government influence on gambling policy …
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A Diversity- and Resilience-Oriented Strategy for the Renewal and Transformation of Macau's NAPE Commercial District
NAPE (Zona Nova de Aterros do Porto Exterior), Macau's first central business district, formed through land reclamation in the 1980s and 1990s, is undergoing a structural crisis triggered by institutional change …
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El casino del diablo. Moral y cambio sociocultural en una leyenda de Hermosillo, Sonora
Objetivo: interpretar la leyenda del casino del diablo, de Hermosillo, Sonora, a partir de sus características formales, variantes, estructura simbólica y significados contextuales. Metodología: se realizó una investigación documental y en redes sociales; se recopilaron 34 versiones orales y escritas mediante entrevistas y análisis de contenido …
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Tourism productivity under crisis conditions: A double frontier Malmquist analysis of the U.S. casino gaming industry
This study examines productivity dynamics in the U.S. casino gaming industry under economic crisis conditions using a double frontier data envelopment analysis framework …
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Impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility on casino employees in South Korea: Customer orientation, work engagement, and affective organizational commitment
Grounded in Social Exchange Theory, this study examines how casino employees’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) influence their customer orientation within the underexplored context of the casino industry, exploring the extent to which work engagement and affective organizational commitment mediate this relationship …
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Narrativas sobre la normalización de la violencia por organizaciones criminales en casinos de Culiacán
El objetivo de nuestro trabajo es describir las narrativas de usuarios de casinos ante la normalización de la violencia por parte de organizaciones criminales vinculadas al narcotráfico en Culiacán. Mediante el método etnográfico, realizamos observación participante en ocho casinos y con el método narrativo entrevistamos a siete usuarios …
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National government in the casino?
This commentary engages with Andy Pike’s recent book, Financialization and Local Statecraft. In it, we raise questions about the role of localism in the UK, the status of taxation and monetary policy, and the crisis of governance that stems from the fiscal landscape Pike lays out in his book …
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El Casino de Guadalajara del Arquitecto Aurelio Botella Enríquez: la breve vida de in exponente del racionalismo expresionista
Tras el incendio del Casino de Guadalajara, producido el 14 de septiembre de 1930, esta Sociedad encargó al arquitecto Aurelio Botella Enriquez el proyecto de un nuevo edificio, que fue redactado ese mismo año. Meses después diseñó una nueva propuesta simplificando el programa que fue la que finalmente se ejecutó …
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OPTIMIZING STATE REVENUE THROUGH REGULATORY REFORM IN VIETNAM’S GAMING AND LOTTERY SECTOR
This article examines the determinants of state budget revenue from the prize-winning gaming sector in Vietnam, which encompasses traditional and computerized lotteries, casinos, sports betting, and electronic games for foreigners …
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OPTIMIZING STATE REVENUE THROUGH REGULATORY REFORM IN VIETNAM’S GAMING AND LOTTERY SECTOR
This article examines the determinants of state budget revenue from the prize-winning gaming sector in Vietnam, which encompasses traditional and computerized lotteries, casinos, sports betting, and electronic games for foreigners …
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Gambling Disorder in the Digital Era: Clinical Challenges and Public Health Gaps in Brazil
Introduction Gambling Disorder (GD) is the only behavioral addiction formally recognized by DSM-5-TR and ICD-11. Its prevalence has been increasing worldwide, driven by the expansion of online gambling, which enhances availability, anonymity, and exposure, leading to significant clinical, social, and economic consequences …
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The mediating effects of psychological empowerment and organizational identification on the relationship between empowering leadership and prosocial service behavior: Focused on F&B employees in foreigner-only casino hotels
[Objective] This study aims to examine the effects of empowering leadership on prosocial service behavior among food and beverage employees at foreigners-only casino hotels and to examine the mediating effects and sequential mediating effects of psychological empowerment and organizational identification …
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The effects of dinescape in casino hotel F&B outlets on gaming re-engagement behavior: The sequential mediating roles of pleasure and arousal emotions and perceived recovery
[Objective] This study aims to examine the effects of the casino hotel F&B dinescape on gaming reparticipation behavior through the mediating effects of hedonic emotion, arousal emotion, and perceived restoration …
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From Juice to KPIs: Institutional Change and Occupational Identity in Las Vegas Casino Management
This study offers a historically grounded analysis of how Las Vegas table games managers constructed occupational identity and navigated institutional change during a period of significant transformation in the casino industry …
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ТЕХНОЛОГИИ И АЗАРТ: ГЕРМЕНЕВТИЧЕСКАЯ ДЕКОНСТРУКЦИЯ ТЕНЕВОЙ АРХИТЕКТУРЫ ИГРОВОГО БИЗНЕСА В УСЛОВИЯХ ПЕРМИССИВНОГО РЕГУЛЯТОРНОГО КОНТИНУУМА
Настоящее исследование осуществляет герменевтическую деконструкцию коммерческой праксисы казино «Casino Caribe Cartagena», репрезентирующего собой неразрывный системный симбионт гостиничного конгломерата Hilton Cartagena и детерминирующего доминирующего актора на отечественном азартном ландшафте …
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Business Performance of Resorts and Casino: Basis for Sustainability Plan
This study examines the business performance of Company A, a mid-sized resorts and casino establishment located in Binangonan, Rizal, with the aim of developing a sustainability plan focused on operations, marketing, and competitiveness …
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Python-Based Slot Machine Game Simulation using Randomization and Control Structures
The Python Slot Machine project is a simple and interactive console based application that simulates the working of a classic casino slot machine using python programming. The main purpose of this project is to show and use fundamental programming concepts in a fun and practical way …
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Motivation to Stay, Job Satisfaction, and Workplace Challenges Among Regular Employees Amidst the Privatization of Government-Owned Casinos
With the ongoing privatization of government-owned casinos, this imperative decision to improve operations and fair-market competition for the gaming industry comes with workplace challenges that directly affect the tenured employees of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) …
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Can Arthroplasty Stem Influence Outcome (CASINO): A Seven-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Stem Length in Cemented Total Hip Arthroplasty
To assess whether a cemented short (125 mm) polished taper slip stem offered an equivalent hip-specific outcome, health-related quality of life, satisfaction, and survival compared to the standard (150 mm) stem when used for total hip arthroplasty. Methods: A multicenter double-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted …
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A Chicago Casino for Racial Equity?
Abstract Recent scholarship has directed attention to how racial discourse, and colorblind racism in particular, influences urban redevelopment in U.S. cities. This study employs a theory of strategic racialization to better understand how developers use race-related discourse to seek public support for their projects and how community members respond …
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In Case You Haven't Heard…
It's not only young men who face gambling addiction online. A report in the AARP Bulletin found that predatory gambling websites are going after older people, many of whom like to gamble recreationally at casinos. The COVID pandemic meant they couldn't go to casinos, and it didn't take long for them to find websites — or for the sites to find them …
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The Mathematics Behind "The House Always Wins": Law of Large Numbers and Parrondo's Paradox
The assertion that "the house always wins" has a rigorous mathematical foundation. This paper examines why gamblers cannot achieve positive returns from casino games in the long run through the lens of the Law of Large Numbers …
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Modeling operational efficiency in US casinos through data envelopment analysis
Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the operational efficiency of commercial casinos across US states and examine the relationship between efficiency and broader economic productivity, particularly in relation to community well-being …
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Toward targeted mental health support: the (in)congruence effect of resilience and social support among casino employees in Macau
Based on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this study aimed to examine the (in)congruence effect of psychological resilience and social support on mental health outcomes (anxiety, depression, perceived stress) among Macau's gaming industry employees, and to explore targeted public health implications for Macau's mental health support system …
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Casinos and Drug Crimes: Evidence from a Synthetic Control Study of Hot Springs
This paper examines the impact of legalizing full-scale casino gaming on drug-related offenses in Hot Springs, Arkansas. While the state's other casino-hosting cities-Pine Bluff and West Memphis-and the state of Arkansas as a whole have experienced a recent decline in drug-related offenses, Hot Springs has seen a notable increase …
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Comparison of Online Gambling Legal Regulations Between Indonesia and The United States
Gambling in Indonesia has historically been a social ill strictly prohibited by various regulations, such as Article 303 of the Criminal Code, Law No. 7 of 1974, and the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law …
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Casino schedules reduce inflammatory biomarkers and improve sleep in emergency medicine physicians during shift work
Shift work is essential to hospital operations but disrupts circadian rhythms and is associated with increased metabolic, cardiovascular, and sleep health risks. Medications, naps, etc. may reduce symptoms but do not solve the underlying problem of an unstable sleep schedule …
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SAFESLOT: an experimental virtual reality protocol to examine flow, craving, and cognitive biases in gambling
Gambling-related harm comes out from dynamic interactions between craving, cognitive distortions, and physiological responses to gambling outcomes. These processes happen rapidly during play and are strongly influenced by the structural features of slot machine, yet they are seldom captured in real time using ecologically valid methods …
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Electronic gambling engagement and psychosocial outcomes among students at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria: a theory of planned behavior perspective
Background And Aims: The proliferation of electronic gambling in Nigeria presents a significant public health concern among youths facing economic adversity …
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Analysis of the Gambling Industry from the Perspective of Expected Return and The Gambler's Ruin Model
The global gambling industry has maintained a long-term stable profit growth trend, yet the public generally attribute its profitability to random luck. In fact, the industry's sustained earnings are not driven by chance, but by the inherent mathematical and economic logic supported by probability theory …
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Guilt‐Free Indulgence: How Cultural‐Creative Elements Transform Visitor Experiences in Integrated Casino Resorts
ABSTRACT Integrated resorts (IRs) increasingly embed cultural and creative elements (CCEs) to buffer the moral tension that often accompanies hedonic consumption, yet the underlying psychological mechanisms remain underexplored …
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The Mediating Roles of Positive Psychological Capital and Learning Orientation in the Relationship Between Pygmalion Leadership and Job Performance : Evidence from Hotels Featuring Foreigners-Only Casinos
연구목적 : 본 연구는 외국인 전용 카지노 호텔 식음료 부서 종사자를 대상으로 피그말리온 리더십이 직무성과에 미치는 영향을 분석하고, 그 관계에서 긍정심리자본과 학습지향성의 순차적 매개역할을 검증하는 데 목적이 있다. 연구방법 : 외국인 전용 카지노를 보유한 6개 호텔의 식음료 부서 종사자로부터 수집한 284부의 유효 표본을 활용하였으며, 연구가설의 검증을 위해 공분산 기반 구조방정식 모델링을 실시하였다.연구결과 : 피그말리온 리더십은 직무성과, 긍정심리자본, 학습지향성에 모두 유의한 정(+)의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다 …
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The Impact of Casino Servicescape on Tourist Expenditure Behavior - Focusing on Cognitive Evaluation and Emotional Responses -
This study investigates the structural mechanism through which casino servicescape influences tourists' expenditure behavior by integrating cognitive evaluation and emotional response as dual psychological organisms within an extended Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework …
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Casinos and House Prices: Evidence from Cities and Counties in Arkansas
This paper investigates the impact of casino openings on residential housing prices in Arkansas, focusing on Hot Springs, Pine Bluff, and West Memphis, along with their respective counties …
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Spatio-temporal differences in EEG dynamics during decision-making between online poker players with moderate-risk and high-risk gambling activity
Problem gamblers (PG) are often treated as a uniform group, though they vary in severity—moderate-risk (MR) and high-risk (HR)—as classified by the Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI). This study investigated whether brain responses during uncertain decision-making differ by gambling severity …
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El Casino Contable como estrategia de aprendizaje gamificado apoyada en Inteligencia Artificial: impacto en el aprendizaje y desarrollo de habilidades en educación superior
El presente estudio analiza el impacto de la implementación de una estrategia de gamificación denominada “casino contable”, articulada con el uso de herramientas de inteligencia artificial, en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de estudiantes universitarios de contaduría pública …
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Economic Exploitation, Ineffective Regulations, and a Misguided Trial: Future Directions for Gambling Reform in New South Wales
Electronic gaming machines (‘EGMs’) proliferate in disadvantaged areas of New South Wales (‘NSW’), leading to unacceptable levels of harm. Achieving meaningful reform is hampered by both government and industry prioritising their own financial interests at the expense of vulnerable people …
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Traditional gambling, betting in video games, and financial trading: Associations with gambling severity and associated harm in young adults
The digitization of gambling has led to the proliferation of gambling-like products in areas such as video games and financial investment platforms. Although these practices share structural mechanisms and risk profiles with gambling, evidence on their relationship with associated harm and their joint role in predicting gambling severity remains limited …
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Preserving the Dollar for the Casino
This essay re-examines the story of the 1978 proposal for a substitution account, an instrument to solve the dollar overhang and enhance the role of Special Drawing Rights introduced by the International Monetary Fund …
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A coastal space of the republican modernization: The “Florya Gazinosu (casino)”
This study examines the Florya Gazinosu (1938), along the coastline of Florya in Istanbul, through architectural, sociocultural and political lenses. Its location within the emerging coastal resort of Florya reflects the early Republican vision of opening the shoreline to public leisure and modern social life …
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Can a slot machine’s allocation of pay table variance affect a gambler’s time on device?
Modified pay tables from a licensed reel slot machine were altered to examine whether two games with equal variance and par could produce meaningful differences in the duration of play, at the level of the individual gambler. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first study to examine this possibility …
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The Development of Poker as a Sport in Japan: Intersections with Culture, Law and Public Administration, and Community
This study examines the emergence of poker as a competitive mind sport in Japan, a country where strict anti-gambling laws (Penal Code Article 185) prohibit cash wagering …
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The Effects of Sports Betting on Casino Gambling in the United States
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of sports betting legalization on casino gambling revenues, focusing on full legalization, defined as having both online and onsite sports betting operational. Our empirical analysis finds that full legalization has an average negative but statistically insignificant effect on casino revenues …
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Exploring Professionalism in the Gaming Industry: Perspectives from Macao Casino Employees
With the diverse concepts of professionalism in the changing society, many professions are striving to attain professionalism to meet the patron demands …
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Effects of sensory feedback on simulated online slot machine gambling
A prominent feature of land-based and online slot machines is audiovisual feedback that accompanies winning outcomes. Prior laboratory work suggests that this design feature may influence game experience, facilitate immersion, increase arousal, and promote riskier decision making, but whether this generalizes to realistic gambling products remains unclear …
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Las cortes no deben ser los casinos de las partes
A partir del fallo «Álvarez, Lucas Eduardo y Telechea, Ayelén Daiana» del Tribunal de Casación Penal de la provincia de Buenos Aires, se busca extraer consecuencias prácticas. Por una cuestión didáctica, se condensan en diez puntos …
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Does the Habit Theory of Addictions Extend to Disordered Gambling?
Purpose Of Review: 'Habit theory' is a pervasive framework that describes addiction as a transition from goal-directed use (e.g. of drugs) to habitual response, accompanied by a neurobiological shift in fronto-striatal brain circuitry …
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Mobile Gambling: Unexplored Risks to Children and Families
Gambling and sports betting have increased in popularity since the 2018 Supreme Court decision to allow states to authorize these industries to operate online. Although mobile gambling and sports betting are experienced as fun pastimes for some adults, evidence of downsides is mounting …
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Do Casinos Boost Local Payroll Income and Employment? A Case Study of Arkansas
This paper investigates the economic impact of new casino openings on local payroll income and employment growth in Arkansas, following a 2018 constitutional amendment that authorized casino gaming in three cities. Applying the synthetic control method and utilizing the Internal Revenue Service tax return data on salaries and wages and the U.S …
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Regulatory Failures of the Corporate Casino Model: A Commentary on Anthony Cabot's Casino Redux
The corporatization of the casino industry represents one of gambling regulation’s great success stories. Through comprehensive licensing regimes, background investigations, and corporate ownership laws, regulators successfully displaced direct organized crime control that characterized mid-twentieth century casinos …
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Impacts of Increased Free-play on Casino Revenue and Visitation
This research seeks to measure the impact of increased promotional incentives on casino revenue and visitation frequency. Free-play has become the primary casino marketing expense in many of the world’s casinos, yet little is known about the efficacy of offers, or how customers respond to changes in existing offer levels …
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A Mechanistic Model of the Wash Shuffle and Monte Carlo Exploration of its Impact on Card Shuffling in Texas Hold’em
In casino games using a standard deck of cards, a wash shuffle is sometimes performed prior to the rest of the card shuffling procedure. Unlike other methods of shuffling, the wash shuffle has not yet been well studied …
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Exploring the Social Lives of Older Long‐Term Hong Kong Immigrants in Australia: Insights From Casinos and Churches
ABSTRACT While formal social services are crucial for fostering social connections and enhancing well‐being, older long‐term Chinese immigrants often underutilise them. Moreover, the social lives of such immigrants in alternative social settings remain underexplored …
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Cash or Crash: Return to Player Percentages and Expected Value of Crash Games
Crash games are a new type of casino game offered on some online gambling sites. The first crash game was created by the online cryptocurrency casino Bustabit. Other cryptocurrency casinos started offering their own versions of crash games. Now mainstream online casinos have developed their own crash games—notably Rocket by DraftKings …
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Casinos que cuiden a los pobres: la emergencia de un dispositivo de comercialización del juego en Santa Fe entre la crítica, el desarrollo y el pragmatismo
Durante las últimas décadas asistimos a un proceso de expansión de la oferta comercial de juegos de azar de escala global. Sin embargo, las impugnaciones morales que históricamente pesaron sobre esta actividad no desaparecieron …
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Edukasi Menghadapi Era Digital Keuangan & Resiko Teknologi Finansial Melalui “Sekolah Media Literasi” (SMILE)
The rapid growth of digital technology has transformed traditional gambling activities—such as poker, casinos, mahjong, sports betting, cockfighting, dice games, lottery, and numbers gambling—into increasingly popular online practices. Although often perceived as entertainment, online gambling has significant negative impacts on social life …
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Analysis of the Needs of Interactive Media "CASINO" Based on Think Pair Share for Indonesian Language Learning in Elementary Schools
This study aims to analyze the need for interactive media "CASINO" based on Think Pair Share in Indonesian language learning at SD IT Al-Akhyar, especially on synonym material. Data were collected through interviews with fifth grade teachers and questionnaires filled out by 24 students …
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A Player’s Web of Significance: A Narrative of a Finnish Online Poker Semi-Professional
A Poker Man's TaleOne night in western Finland in November 2006, Mark (pseudonym), a civil servant and a family man in his mid 30s, was drifting aimlessly through cyberspace when he remembered a conversation he had had with a fellow chessplayer earlier that fall.He paused for a minute and then typed a search phrase in Google: "poker room."He clicked on one …
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Neoliberal Fascism as the Endpoint of Casino Capitalism
This article explores neoliberal fascism as a distinctive political formation within the current historical moment. In doing so, it first analyzes neoliberalism as a project that has since the 1970s destroyed all the commanding institutions of democracy while consolidating power in the hands of a financial elite …
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Gambling participation and risk over time associated with type of gambling activity: Trends in Australian general population 2015-2022
• Gambling participation in Australia fell from 37% in 2015 to 33% in 2022. • Higher-risk gambling increased from 3.7% to 4.7% over the same period. • Young people under 35 saw larger increases in higher-risk gambling over this time. • Slot machines, race betting, and sports betting were linked to higher-risk gambling …
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Betting on Macau: casino capitalism and China’s consumer revolution
In 2013, Macau generated US$45 billion in gross gaming revenue, seven times more than the Las Vegas Strip. However, Tim Simpson argues that viewing Macau through such a simplistic comparative lens ...
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Using Machine-Learning Algorithms to Predict Self-Reported Problem Gambling Among a Sample of Online Gamblers
Abstract Studies suggest that algorithms can effectively be used to predict self-reported problem gambling using player tracking data. The present study analyzed a sample of real-world online gamblers ( N = 1,611) who engaged in lottery playing, casino gambling, bingo playing, and sports betting …
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Gender-specific risk factors for gambling-related suicidal ideation: Evidence from a help-seeking population
• Gambling-related suicidal ideation is prevalent amongst help-seekers. • Factors impacting the risk of gambling-related suicidal ideation differ across genders. • Gambling-related debt and lack of social support are risk factors for both genders. • At-risk alcohol consumption is a risk factor amongst women who gamble …
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A high-tech poker scandal and a chemistry test controversy
Operation Royal FlushEvery now and again, this Newscriptster enjoys a game of poker—Texas Hold’em, to be precise. It’s all fun and games, but even without betting real money, it’s nice to win. So recent news about Operation Royal Flush raised the question: Was there any science behind this cheating operation? …
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La industria de casinos en la ciudad de Culiacán, México: un análisis de las motivaciones internas de los jugadores
El juego de azar ha tenido una función social en la humanidad y se ha legitimado hasta convertirse en una práctica social institucionalizada y los casinos son un modelo de ocio y entretenimiento que ha generado la instauración de una industria de consumo de juegos de azar y de apuesta, por lo que, existen motivaciones internas para acudir a estos espacios …
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Toward Optimizing Slot Machine Revenue via Title and Location Combinations
ABSTRACT Competing slot floor configurations were compared to identify whether significant differences in performance would occur …
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Online sports gambling and financial wellbeing in the United States
Abstract Online sports gambling expanded rapidly in the United States since 2018. This article uses a nationally representative sample survey in early 2025 to measure who is gambling, how much, and online sports gambling’s association with financial wellbeing and decision-making …
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Grand Tour Architecture: The Casino at Marino in Dublin as a Mnemonic of Lord Charlemont’s Travels
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the study of antique architecture shifted from traditional Vitruvian categories to a more experiential engagement with the bodily, spatial, and emotional impact of ancient ruins in Italy, Greece, Egypt, and the Levant …
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Effect of gambling odds framing on younger and older adults’ comprehension and perceived chances of winning
Abstract How the odds of winning a casino game are presented impacts whether individuals understand and how they perceive those odds …
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Casinos that take care of the poor: the emergence of a gambling commercialization device in Santa Fe between criticism, development and pragmatism
Durante las últimas décadas asistimos a un proceso de expansión de la oferta comercial de juegos de azar de escala global. Sin embargo, las impugnaciones morales que históricamente pesaron sobre esta actividad no desaparecieron …
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Beyond the Screen: Exploring Online Slot Machine Gambling Experiences Among Young Adults in Argao, Cebu, Philippines
Online slot machine gambling has become increasingly accessible through digital platforms, raising concerns about its growing participation among young adults …
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A Hybrid Blockchain Approach to Secure and Transparent Casino Betting and Payouts
This paper proposes a blockchain-based decentralized casino system that ensures fairness and transparency through smart contract automation. The system is implemented using Solidity and features core functionalities including secure bet submission, on-chain random number generation, and automatic reward distribution …
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Proportionate financial control policies for Small and Mid-Sized U.S. Hotels
Small and mid-sized hotels make up the larger part of the U.S. lodging industry, yet most run their finances with very few people, often a general manager and an outside bookkeeper …
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Personality and impulsivity traits associated with problematic online gaming and poker playing
Online gambling and gaming are associated with Problematic Usage of the Internet (PUI) in subgroups of individuals …
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ADIKTIVNI POTENCIJAL IGARA NA SREĆU – RIZIČNOST ZA PROBLEMATIČNO KOCKANJE
The addictive potential of games of chance is a crucial factor in understanding the risk of problem gambling development. Historically linked to psychoactive substances, the concept of addictive potential is now also applied to behavioral addictions, especially gambling …
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You are Rude, so I Must Suffer? Exploring Casino Dealers’ Work Stress and Maladaptive Behaviors Caused by Uncivil Customers
Few studies focused on how employees use maladaptive after-work behaviors to cope with work stress in the gaming sector. Although customer incivility is a typical stressor, its destructive effects remain largely unknown …
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Gyuricza Andrea, A Nemzeti Casino könyvtára, Budapest, MTA KIK, 2024 (A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtárának közleményei – Publicationes Bibliothecae Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 52[127])
Gyuricza Andrea könyve többéves tárgyi alapkutatáson alapszik. Nem csupán a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtárának raktáraiban vett kézbe minden számba jöhető könyvet, amikor a Széchenyi István kezdeményezésére 1827-ben létrejött Nemzeti Casino könyvtárának darabjait kereste, hanem sokkal nagyobb merítéssel dolgozott …
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ONLINE GAMBLING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SHARIA ECONOMIC LAW AND ITS NEGATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT
Online gambling is increasingly prevalent among the Indonesian population, with a wide range of online gambling products available and popular across nearly all levels of society …
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El casino del E-commerce: Cómo los algoritmos de la IA apuestan con tu bolsillo y tu mente
The widespread use of mobile phones has significantly reshaped daily habits, with online shopping becoming one of the most common activities. This shift has not only altered consumer behavior but also transformed traditional business models …
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Del casino al bar: la democratización del espacio público femenino en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite. De Entre visillos a Irse de casa
Los espacios, tanto interiores como exteriores son una de las constantes en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite …
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Adaptive Allocation of Monte Carlo Samples for Efficient, Multifidelity Computational Screening of Metal-Organic Frameworks
For applications in gas sensing, purification, and capture, we often wish to search a large set of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for the top-K in terms of their Henry coefficients for an adsorbate …
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How Casino Match Play Promotions Can Hook Gamblers (and Non-Gamblers)
Casino operators frequently use promotional gambling vouchers, free play and match play. In the case of free play, customers are offered gambling credits that function much like real money and patrons are able to quickly turn their promotional play into cash without risking their own money …
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A two-step model for organic social media marketing in the casino industry
Purpose This study examines the long-term effects of organic social media marketing (OSM) on both online and brick-and-mortar (B&M) casinos …
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Reasons for Gambling Amongst Men in Matasia Location, Ngong Sub-County Kajiado County, Kenya
Gambling has become a significant social issue in Kenya, particularly among men in peri-urban areas, driven by economic hardships and the proliferation of digital betting platforms. This study aims to explore the reasons for gambling among men in Matasia Location, Ngong Sub-County, Kajiado County, a semi-arid region with notable socio-economic challenges …
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State of the evidence on economic impacts of smoke-free policies in the tourism sector: A narrative literature review
Article 8 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) obligates Parties to enact policies that create 100% smoke-free environments in enclosed workplaces, public places and public transport …
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Where to place my bets? Players’ adaptation to the reduction of gambling venues
Abstract This study examines players’ adaptation mechanisms after gambling venues reduction. Current research on gambling regulation focuses primarily on availability effects, yet empirical evidence on how players adapt to venue closures remains limited …
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The Interplay between Gambling Activity Groups, Problem Gambling Symptoms, and Mental Wellbeing from a Public Health Perspective
The existing literature predominantly focuses on clinical conditions related to gambling, with evidence suggesting the co-occurrence of gambling disorders, major depressive disorders, and personality disorders …
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Social casino gaming in Indonesia: socio-economic and cultural impacts of Higgs Domino Island
This ethnographic study examines the socio-economic and cultural impacts of social casino gaming, focusing the mobile application Higgs Domino Island (HDI) in Indonesia. Although Marketed as a casual game, HDI functions as a social casino platform whose monetization through third-party chip exchanges effectively serves as a proxy for gambling …
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Reputación de marca y relaciones públicas en el sector de entretenimiento en México: el caso de grand casino vía dorada
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar cómo las relaciones públicas influyen en la gestión de la reputación de marca dentro del sector del entretenimiento en México, tomando como caso de estudio al Grand Casino Vía Dorada en Pachuca, Hidalgo …
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Examining the illusion of control via outcome sequences in online slot machine gambling
Background The illusion of control is a cognitive bias where individuals overestimate their personal influence over random events …
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A Postmodern Reading of Islamic Fiction: Muslim Faith and the Challenges of Modernity in Rayda Jacobs’ Confessions of a Gambler
Abstract: Building upon the failed projects Enlightenment projects, this paper depicts present day Muslims. It specifically shows the paradigmatic changes that interfere with Islam following Muslims’ exposure to modernity …
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Comparative Analysis of Swear Words Between Main Male and Female Characters in ‘Casino’ (1995) and ‘Uncut Gems’ (2019) Movies
This research aims to compare the types and functions of swear words uttered by the main male and female characters in the Casino (1995) and Uncut Gems (2019). A descriptive quantitative method was used in this research to emphasize the data …
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Personality at play: exploring how frontline employees’ personalities drive work performance in hospitality
Purpose This study seeks to investigate the influence of personality traits of casino dealers on work engagement (WE), organizational commitment (OC) and customer orientation (CO) within the hospitality sector …