As a disciplined gambler, I always laugh at questions used by gambling rehabs to spot a "landu" or a person with a gambling addiction problem. Over the past decade their questionnaire are not structured to differentiate the discipline regular gambler and the landu. Pinkie brought in a crude one to the thread several years ago. It had rated most of our regular and disciplined gamblers as dangerous.
The recent questionnaire which XingCai brought up in Gambling Addiction does separate the pros from the punters. XingCai still see problems with the new improved guidelines when applied on those who are not willing to wash their hands from gambling. This explains the reason WhySee (our rehab guy) is facing so many problems trying to help the potentially hazardous gamblers.
XingCai take a whack at students lured by easy money until they gambled away their loan. This time she cited a Malaysian case of student using the PTPTN loans to gamble. This really irks me as I had been strict on minor gambling on our GGC thread. I wish WhySee could reach out to these young horns to tell them that backtracking is a viable option.
It would be appropriate to conclude this blog with an advice to students not to attempt to use their intellect to master gambling. This is where logic breaks down and emotion dominates.
More about students getting in trouble on XingCai's Webpage.
Gamblers will ask for help when it is way too late, like after losing everything
ReplyDeleteLosing their study loans is more than the what a student can afford to lose.
DeleteStudents need to learn cash management before be given a lump sum in loans.
ReplyDeleteStudents should never attempt to use their intellect to beat gambling.
ReplyDeleteIt is an unhealthy growing epidemic in schools in the US also.
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