A Professor teaching clinical and community psychology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has published a report for the Department of Trade and Industry quoting what he thinks will be the effect of relaxed gaming regulations and Internet casinos (go to online blackjack and slots …).

Imagine the following situation: You enter a web site, download a necessary program and register with the web site. Several minutes later, you are sitting at a virtual poker table, happily playing Texas Hold ‘Em.

Playing at Internet casinos is licensed in more than eighty countries all over the world, however in the United States, it is still regarded as an illegal activity, although nearly 80 per cent of all Internet casinos gamblers play from the United States. That’s why nearly all Internet casinos, based their transactions offshore, which makes [...]