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Pareto Effects In The Ecasino: Differences Across Online Products And Links With Self-Exclusion, Xiaolei Deng, Luke Clark Dr
Pareto Effects In The Ecasino: Differences Across Online Products And Links With Self-Exclusion, Xiaolei Deng, Luke Clark Dr
International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
Consumption of many goods adheres to the Pareto rule (or 80:20 law) that the 20% most engaged consumers generate 80% of revenue. Using a dataset from the eCasino section of the provincial online gambling platform in British Columbia, Canada, we recently observed that Pareto values exceeded the conventional 80:20 ratio, with the top 20% generating ~92% of bets and ~90% of revenue (Deng, Lesch & Clark, 2021 Addictive Behaviors 120: 106968). In this presentation, we will examine how these effects vary across different gambling product types within the eCasino: online slot machine games, table games, video poker, and other probability …
Social Casino Gaming: Legal (R)Evolution, Behnam Dayanim
Social Casino Gaming: Legal (R)Evolution, Behnam Dayanim
International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
Social games—and social casino games— have exploded in popularity. As of 2012, 800 million people, or 12 percent of the world’s population, were playing social games at least once per month. That number is expected to double to 1.5 billion by the end of 2015.To put that number in perspective, as of 2012, only 50 million people are believed to have participated on real-money online gambling sites. Yet, the legal issues surrounding social casino gaming remain largely unexplored. Only now has litigation tentatively started to explore the outer limits of permissible social gaming. I propose to define "social" and "social …
Empirical Study Of Online Horse Race Bettors Betting Behavior In Finland, Tuomo Kainulainen
Empirical Study Of Online Horse Race Bettors Betting Behavior In Finland, Tuomo Kainulainen
International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
This presentation produces an overview of online horse race bettors’ betting behavior in the Finnish betting market. The following studies have utilized individual-level online betting data LaPlante et al. (2006), LaBrie et al. (2007), LaBrie et al. (2008), LaPlante et al. (2009), Xuan & Shaffer (2009), Braveman & Shaffer (2010), Dragicevic et al. (2011), Fiedler (2013) and Gainsbury & Russell (2013). These studies focus on sports betting, poker and casino games. As an addition to the betting behavioural literature, this study focuses on horse race betting by utilizing betting data provided by Fintoto Ltd which has a legal monopoly for …