Topic: Does even freezing a customer's account curb irresponsible gambling? - page 8. (Read 1009 times)

I think it will never happen because casinos don't care about their users' gambling addiction. They do include links to responsible gambling services which are usually at the bottom of the site but casinos are a business and the more people deposit the more they profit, they don't care where your money comes from.

But if any casino cares about the addiction of its users then that's great, maybe the casino can limit how much $ can be deposited in a day. Unfortunately, this is not possible and hoping for something like that is just a utopia. Responsibility and gambling addiction is our own responsibility as users, casinos will not help with anything

Well. In the first place, I don't think there is an actual and accurate enough way for the casino staff to guess whether you would be being irresponsible with your money while gambling, even if they ask your your personal information when you register in their casino they normally won't ask for proof or origins of funds, a letter or job or a bank statement on your savings, so the casino does not have idea on how much money you manage in the real life.
If one of their gamblers started to have a series of losses and continued to depositing into the casino, there is no way for the staff to assume that person has a big or a small salary, they could even believe that gambler is rich and there is no problem. that is the main reason most of the self-exclusion programs are voluntary.
Also, I agree that a gambler who is addicted can always sign up in a different casino and continue to gamble, though, self-excluding from many webpages at the same time could indeed make more difficult for the problem gambler to continue to spend as much money as usually does and help a bit with his recovery, at least that is how it is supposed to work in the theory, in the practice it is harder for it to happen.

it's the first time I heard a story like this, if this happened to me, Of course, I would go to another casino and playing there. As far as I know, they have no right to regulate our life, whatever the situation and condition, like addiction or irresponsible gambling, all that situation is under our control, not by another person who doesn't have regulation to manage our life. We play with our own money, so whatever the situation, lost or won, we have the right to do as we please.

First no casino/ gambling site will freeze a customer account because of excessive gambling or even rapid deposits pf large funds,  so for that you have to know that casinos are out for business and they run the business with those deposits and loses,  so they will never block you account and even those that have the self excluding features,  will not even function at it full rate.

So for that gambling casinos that block player account do that because the have other motive towards they gambling lifestyle such as freezing players' accounts only when they win big amount and not allowing them to access the account and taking the balance off the account balance.

I will be glad if there's a casino with that feature. Giving their gambler at least a bit of help in terms of moderate gambling. On the other hand though, isn't it a benefit for casinos if users will keep on depositing money? Gambling responsibly is on the gambler's hand, not on the gambling site itself.

If they freeze the account of that user because of that, they might lose customers. What if they freeze the account of a user who will fall into that category but in reality, that gambler is still in responsible behavior. It might annoyed their customers.

That's not making sense. No casino will freeze an account for irresponsible gambling.

In the first place, how can they even determine that there's irresponsible gambling that's happening on the way? Just because of continuous deposit and then all of those will lose? They are business. Continuous deposit from their users is an advantage. Why should they freeze an account because of that? If a casino will do that, they will just giving the reason for their customers to leave their platform.

Lol, this is funny because there is no gambling site or casino that will do such a thing, so do not give it too much thought. I feel they always designed the system in such a way that it's automatically taking records of winning and losing; they don't design it in such a way that it will kick out anyone who is losing more and also depositing constantly. Like someone already said in the comments above, casinos even happy to see more losses because it's a business where their profit lies in the number of losses made by customers. If that is the case, why would they freeze customers  accounts?Or do they not want to make a profit? I don't think this can be possible, but if I experience such, I will just move on to another casino, no stress.

Well the thing is that this will work on a brick-and-mortar casino setting, and I see it somehow working still when we're talking about online casinos even though the risk of creating dummy or duplicate accounts to evade bans is of course prominent.

First off, we gotta put into consideration that most casinos nowadays require KYC to either deposit money or withdraw their own money within their platforms. With that in mind should they see you creating a new account they could match it against their list of users who got their accounts frozen due to excessive gambling and from there, they could administer a ban on your duplicate account and issue even greater punishments on your original to teach you a lesson, similar to what they do in online games like Valorant and League of Legends against specific users they deem too toxic to be allowed within their community. If this is what they are planning to do then it could just work. Plus let me just say that you're quite the gambler if the casino had to step in and freeze your account. At that point your main concern shouldn't even be how you can evade the ban and still play, your directive should be the reason why you got banned and how you can turn your whole life around in that point. But then again, who am I to really tell people what they should be doing in the first place LOL?

The answer to this question is mostly likely not.  It comes down to the age old saying "if there's a will, there's a way".  People that addicted to gambling are going to find ways to gamble no matter what.  If their accounts are frozen they'll simply open new ones (maybe us a VPN) or just go to different gambling outlets.  Let's say they magically got banned from using the internet, then they'd just find places IRL offline.

To be honest, trying to detect "irresponsible gambling" by default can be prone to false positives like what if they just had the luxury to deposit more money like loaded people.

In addition, it's difficult to help someone who does not want help hence the measure/s placed should be something they have to request at first. For instance, responsible gambling's self-exclusion, wagering limit, etc.


I believe they do but it all comes down to a person's will power because if someone's unwilling, it would be pretty easy to circumvent such restriction.

Casino officials freezing customer accounts is one way they prevent gamers from engaging in irresponsible gambling activities or becoming gambling addicts. You might get annoyed at first, but keep in mind that the goal here is your security and welfare, even though this action seems to hurt your interest and threaten your fun.

When you freeze your account, it provides some time for introspection in relation to gambling and also triggers the need to seek help in case controlling the habit is becoming difficult. Even though there is always the choice of registering at a different casino and gambling, one must be cautious of this habit leading to negative impacts in the long run.

A measure that casinos can adopt to contribute to their efforts of curbing irresponsible gambling is the freezing of customer accounts, but the final responsibility for controlling your gambling behavior is up to you. In case you realize that it becomes difficult for you to manage your gaming practice, it is quite important to resort to sources available in this area such as support or counseling.

personally, I won't, I don't even see myself depositing money on a gambling site in rapid succession after a series of losses. that being said, other gamblers might, especially addicted gamblers.

I think it depends on the person, I mean, perhaps there are people who need some push(in this case, freezing their account) to make them realize that they are going too far and it is not healthy and they need a break from gambling.

A gambling site will never freeze the account of the person that is making them to make money. The only reason that a gambling site can freeze account is if the person is against the rules of the gambling site, and that might be if the person win huge and want to withdraw. If the person do not win and not want to withdraw money, the gambling site will allow the person to continue to gamble and waste his money.

If one casino or betting place freeze the account of a gambler who they know is addicted by way of trying to make them not have resources to gamble with, these gamblers will find their license to gamble elsewhere in a casino that's will accept them and not care about their addiction by trying to control them through freezing their accounts. An irresponsible gambler need to be made to see a reason why they should quit or reduce from gambling. Best help for an irresponsible gambler is to recommend them to a professional.

It’s based on your gambling addiction,because the gambling addicted person can’t be free without any games.If the gamblers is not the addicted person,he can wait for the three weeks.Because the three week is not the big one for the gamblers.But the gambling addicted person will keep on texting the support,this leads to the gambling support to solve the problems in the short period of time.If the gamblers wait like without game it will good for them.

This three weeks gaps will help the gamblers not to get addicted to the gambling site.The gamblers should take responsibility for the game,because they know how to handle the loss in the gambling.The responsible gambling people alone make the big money from the gambling site.

That's true, That's what casinos really want from gamblers: to put money into their casino, especially if a lot of money is put in, because that's where a casino makes money. If no one deposits with them or there are no players who gamble, the casino will fail for sure.

Now, if we think that we are always unlucky in a casino, of course, as gamblers, we will look for another casino because we will think that maybe when we move to another casino, we will get lucky there, right? Maybe this is what other gamblers do in other casinos.

Ah. You think that the casino management wants you to win? They may want you to win but it’ll be just to win a little so you have the motivation to keep coming back and wasting money on them. Unless this is a feature offered by the platform, they cannot and will not freeze a customers account. Imagine if everyone stops losing, how then will they pay winners? And if it were a service offered by the management, I think that freezing your account can curb irresponsible gambling because it wouldn’t do any harm to freeze it and if it won’t do any harm then it could do good. Maybe the process of creating a new account will bore you out or maybe when the account gets frozen and you sit to think for some minutes, you could come back to your senses.

Really hard to believe that a gambling site would do the ff;

1. Stop or hinder players to make deposit
2. Make those limitations or exclusions

We do know and its just common sense that they would really be preferring  with those type of gamblers on which they do become that impulsive
because this is where they would be making that huge profits or revenue into those gamblers who are impulsive as well.

This is why its not something that possible that we could see on this market as of this moment on which it is a bit impossible feature to have or
actions that they would be making.

I haven't heard of anything like this happening and I haven't heard of any gamblers having this experience. The casino is happy when a gambler keeps depositing into the casino, the casino has no interest in checking the user's account if the gambler loses money. However, if the gambler continues to win, the casino is interested in checking the user's account and the casino checks whether the gambler has broken any rules of the casino.

So the chances of something like this happening are very low. As a result it is a gambler's responsibility to control himself, the casino will never block the account of a losing gambler. Unless the gambler tells the casino to block his account.

If its included into their terms and you havent been able to read up as a user then you cant really make out those complaints but if it wasnt included into their terms then you would really be that furious.For sure you would really be that making those scam accusations on such locked up on which i would really be definitely do the same. They dont have the rights on
locking up your account due to successive deposits. Well its not that bad to have that kind of concern into their players and having that kind of approach on stopping them on too much
spending on gambling but it would be always that best that it should really be something to be asked or something that be announcing about on their plans about lock up
whether it is really just that fine or not or having those kind of alerts.