Is online gambling harming you?

Online gambling — all those websites and apps that offer casino games, sports betting, poker, fantasy sports, and lotteries — can be exciting and entertaining. It’s an estimated $9.5 billion per year business, and growing. But for millions of Americans, what starts as occasional fun can lead to devastating gambling-related problems. “You can experience harm…

‘Desperate’ Australians losing billions more to pokies during cost-of-living crisis, researcher warns | Gambling

Australians are losing billions of dollars more to poker machines than they were before the pandemic, with researchers attributing the sharp increase to “desperation” during a cost-of-living crisis. In New South Wales, an average of about $22m was lost to poker machines each day during the first six months of 2023, totalling $3.9bn over that…