I don't know if this has been discussed before or not.
Reading about gambling addiction I don't think it's a new topic, but fitting to be in here, I just want to ask: between casino gambling, in-house gambling, and one-on-one gambling with physical players available on the table, which among these is more likely to turn someone into a gambling addict if the person doesn't have self-control in all his gambling activities?
Now are days I see much or all this in house gamblers becoming addicted and acting weird over gambling results, and walking down into some betting shop, you will see most of those gamblers spending their whole day in the gambling shop, which made me have the above question. I know any form of gambling can produce gambling addicts, but among all, there is one that is most common, which is what I want to hear from others.
I think the games that have the most impact on gambling addiction are those with instant payouts and bright flashing colors and loud sounds. Games like slots, in other words. They were designed to psychologically keep you glued to the screen and to keep going and going. Those are the ones which utilize psychological tricks to distract your brain and make it believe you are receiving rewards when you are in fact, losing money.
The existence of the maximum chance of winning instantly and suddenly, makes me believe that your idea is correct about gambling which has more potential to make someone addicted, namely the type of slot gambling, not only that because there are quite a lot of other things that look very tempting there, and Also, this type of gambling is quite easy to do, it doesn't take long for anyone to adapt to the appearance of some of the features there.
In my opinion, casinos in slot gambling use a nicotine-like algorithm which can stimulate part of the gambler's brain with one simple scenario, namely thwarting a win that the gambler should be able to win, and from there usually the gambler will start to have a high level of curiosity and hope so that Unconsciously and as time goes by they get deeper into their involvement and obviously usually they don't really care about the risks because their main focus is winning and on the other hand behind the scenes what happens is that the casino slowly drains their money in every session they do.