hi
while I stand by my views that non poker players have a very wrong headed view of the actual realities of poker players
by the way the figures used by responsible anti gambling organisations acknowledge that poker in its self is not the biggest of the "problems" as its more slots and combination gamblers that are the addicted
anyway I whole hearted support the work of GA and other similar organisations - that's why since day one this site has a link to GA at the bottom of every page of the main site
Gamblers Anonymous Official Home Page
If people need to get help - then get help
although I dont like people blaming anyone but themselves for things when its realistically their own decisions - in the same way I dont have much time for all these "where there is a blame there is a claim" adverts - when the reality of alot of them is they should have used common sense - BTW I know people can site any number of legitimate claims also but we have moved into a culture of not taking responsibility for our own actions - which IMHO is unhealthy
I have covered this before somewhere in the
poker blog
but I think when you have multi millionairs suing bookmakers for letting them gamble - personally I have to think ... I you were clever enough to make a million and then choose to pi** it away on betting - then you cant blame anyone but yourself
poker remains the only gambling game that has a skill advantage which to me makes it no different to other sportmen betting on their own personal ability to beat the opposition
the issue is when what you do starts to effect other people - but equally most career minded people are unhealthily "addicted" to work - it woudl be interesting to see how many would ban work / overtime because that breaks up so many homes
cheers scrawnybob