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Though online gaming has completed been outlawed in the United States after October 2006, most the governments of different European countries have chosen an entirely different concept and are trying their best to liberalize the online gambling legislation; to turn it into a profitable business for the online gambling operators.

England spends to the same extent that Americans do when it comes to gambling, even though England’s population is 1/5 of United State’s population and this has been vindicated by the numbers given by Global Betting and Gaming Consultants ( GBGC). The overall expenditure in UK is taking the same pace nowadays. So it’s a question to figure out as to what attracts people to online gambling and the risks associated with it.

One of the reasons as to why US put a ban on online gambling comes from a report which was issued by National Gambling Impacy Study Commission in 1999. As per the report, ‘ the presence of gambling facility within 50 miles roughly doubles the existence of problem and pathological gamblers’. Obviously, with the existence of online gambling, gambling was now directly from home as well. So, the report highlighted that online gambling offers more gambling opportunities, thus, change people into compulsive gamblers to a great extent. Once they get obsessed with online gambling, results do not matter to them and they do not minimize their gambling habit. If they win, they play more and if they lose, they still play more to compensate for the losses and they end up finding themselves in a position where they have nothing to bank upon. They lose everything which they had in their kitty. And this leads them o great depression and affects mental and physical condition.

Even after multiple warnings from the United States, there a lot of people across the globe who are addicted to online gambling and participate in it. It’s also more to do with the fact that there are additional features that come with online gambling.