sports betting: keeping the game in gaming
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Ms Janine Robinson Advanced Practice Clinician/Educator, Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Presentation given on 23 May 2011 at "The New Game: Emerging technology and responsible gambling" forum hosted by the Victorian Government's Office of Gaming and Racing as part of Responsible Gambling Awareness Week 2011.TRANSCRIPT
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Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Sports betting: keeping the game in gaming
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Sports betting: Keeping the game in gaming
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In Ontario, Canada Unique funding structure: 2% slots
Ontario PG Helpline
Prevention: Responsible Gambling Council
Research: Ont Problem Gambling Research Centre
Clinical programs and education: PGIO
Consultants to gaming industry; e.g. RG training
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Coming up
Ontario government sponsoring online gambling (expected next year)
Sports betting laws to change(?)
PGIO to provide online counselling
And a suite of virtual self-help tools
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Ontario adults Low prevalence of PG on sports
Currently no legal online sports betting
No single-bet sports betting
Government-operated/owned “Pro-line”
Pools 4.2% and lotteries 4.3 most common
Bookies: .4% (illegal)
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Ontario youth Sports betting is a huge issue and problem
Sports betting most common activity
Online the least common (growing?)
29,000 students have PG
PG prevalence: 2.8%
Youth with PG have concurrent issues• Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey (2011)
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This involves multiple lenses
The player at various stages of gambling• low risk
• moderate risk
• problematic
The actual product safety/integrity
The gambling environment
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In Victoria
Codes of conduct
Betting oversight: VCGR
Industry voluntary measures; e.g. betcare
www.gamblinghelponline.org.au
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Sport (betting) is unique
Strong cultural value
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Sport has strong cultural meanings
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Local, regional, national and international
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Sport has strong identity meanings
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Being or “becoming” Australian
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Sports connects us to history
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Sports connects us to history
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Role Models
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Role models?
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Positive values: Perserverance
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Sports can be joyful
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The Underdog
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Sportsmanship and teamwork
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Sportsmanship
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Who is Responsible for RG?
bettor provider
regulator
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Who is Responsible for RG?
bettor
•Assumes individual responsibility/ability•Can = moral weakness approach•Blaming
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Who is Responsible for RG?
regulator
•Public health mandate
•Distribute taxes
•Provide protection for most vulnerable
•Detractors: “nanny state”
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Who is Responsible for RG?
provider
•Competing demands:
•marketing, promotion, revenue and RG
•RG affects the bottom line
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All essential to a culture of RG
bettor provider
regulator
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RG can reduce future incidence of PG
But does not provide the solution to PG
Some people cannot succeed in practicing the public health messages
These people need secondary and tertiary care; i.e. accessible professional PG treatment
Government, industry and treatment must work together
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Forecasting
Online and single-sports betting in Ontario
Online environment attractive to educated males
Prevention messages about odds/point spread
Keeping the game in gaming
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Virtual self-help tools Professional, confidential and free
Accessible
Technologically cutting-edge
Targeted
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Gambling quiz (Problem gambling severity index)
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Going forward
Utilising the technology
Collaboration among the sectors
Keeping the common goals in mind
Adapting approaches from other jurisdictions
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Let’s Keep the game in gaming: [email protected]