Asha Asha Asha. You keep doing this. I’m calling you the Shoei Ohtani of Journalism. Every time you write something. The next thing is better. It’s clear you’ve done your research. And somebody like yourself who is not an expert in this field it’s amazing how you break it down. Step by step. You walk us through. Thank you brilliant bravo. This article should be nominated for some type of award.
I’ve been screaming for the NBA to preserve integrity in your sport and protect your trillion dollar brand. The commissioner Adam Silver should ban and outlaw Prop bets all together.
You make that case clear. This isn’t the traditional fun Super Bowl prop bet of how long will the artist sing the national anthem. Or what Color will the winning teams Gatorade be. Or what team will score the touchdown first. Or what player will score the touchdown first.
A player can control how many assists he gets in a game. Or say hey coach my hammy is feeling a little tight. Let me get on the bike. With load management it’s so easy.
What Terry Rozier did put the whole league at risk. Cause now everything is looked at. And you have to look at everything. A coach can control when he pulls a player. So the prop bets in my opinion gotta go. What’s worth more a few million or a trillion. Get it out the sport.
You are so spot on. This is what brilliant journalism is all about. !!!!!!!!
Asha hits a home run with her closing challenge, "The question now is whether the current state of sports betting is too popular, and too lucrative, for any regulation to come to fruition."
... I wonder how much time do average Americans spend watching, "fantasy leaguing", and betting on sports compared to the time we spend making ourselves "informed, citizens"?
There’s psychological research revealing that gambling addicts intentionally, though on a subconscious level, play games of chance until they lose everything. Gambling addicts are known for this kind of defeatist behavior in order to subconsciously feel justified in their post-large-monetary-loss self-flogging of their own psyches. (This formidable symptom of a gambling addiction can reach an extreme, one example having been aptly demonstrated in the film Owning Mahowny).
Thus, I’m left somewhat discouraged by the prevalence of fellow human beings who in contented-conscience procure and retain employment involving the exploitation of gambling addicts. While one might expect such disgracefulness from privately-owned casinos, one would expect better from a government-owned and -operated lotteries/games entity, which in my province comes in the form of British Columbia Lottery Corporation.
Unfortunately, it’s using the weaknesses of its more ‘loyal’ consumers, especially those with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. It tokenly offers gambling-addiction-withdrawal counselling services — as well as their ads’ quite insufficient “Know your limit, play within it” and/or “If you gamble, use your GameSense … 19+”. But it all hardly suffices for the significant and often irreparable financial damage done to addicts and their families.
And then there was/is BCLC’s audaciously and hypocritically self-serving “jackpot disentitlement rule” aspect of the formal “voluntary exclusion [request]” policy that falls under the Gaming Control Act. It enabled both publicly and privately owned lottery/gaming entities to withhold, ergo confiscate, sizeable winnings from addicts who had signed onto the ethically inexcusable agreement (presumably since then amended in compliance with the court’s ruling).
However, those large-profit gambling interests would permit themselves to keep any and all betting losses suffered by addicts who had signed the “voluntary exclusion [request]” form but still managed to access the casino.
A lawyer representing two plaintiffs who had their large winnings withheld by BCLC, though later ordered by a court to be rightfully handed back over to the plaintiffs, said that he had hoped the ruling would have retroactively ordered all such withheld winnings to be returned to their gambling-addict owners, regardless of the exclusionary agreement. “The lottery corporation had no right to withhold the winnings as a penalty [while] they’re taking both the losings and the winnings.”
Banning anything, imo, only pushes things underground where the activity will thrive regardless. Does legalization encourage participation while increasing the overall take? I think so. Speakeasy’s thrived during prohibition. Las Vegas legalized gambling in 1931 and organized crime moved in immediately. Batista’s corrupt Cuban government was propped up by mob leaders Luciano and Lansky’s kickbacks from gambling operations and was responsible for the Cuban revolution. It can be very difficult to regulate/legislate human behavior even when it results in self harm. Drug use, prostitution and gambling are “profit” centers and imo will thrive regardless, overtly or covertly.
Most of us feel compelled to self-medicate in some form or another (besides caffeine), albeit it’s more or less ‘under control’. And there are various forms of self-medicating, from the relatively mild to the dangerously extreme, that include non-intoxicant-consumption addictions, like chronic shopping/buying, pornography, over-eating, and gambling.
If such self-medicating forms are anything like drug intoxication or substance addiction, it should follow that: the greater the induced euphoria or escape one attains from it, the more one wants to repeat the experience; and the more intolerable one finds their non-self-medicating reality, the more pleasurable that escape will likely be perceived. In other words: the greater one’s mental pain or trauma while not self-medicating, the greater the need for escape from one’s reality — all the more addictive the euphoric escape-form will likely be.
With food, the vast majority of obese people who considerably over-eat likely do so to mask mental pain or even PTSD symptoms. I utilized that method myself during much of my pre-teen years, and even later in life after ceasing my (ab)use of cannabis or alcohol. I don’t take it lightly, but it’s possible that someday I could instead return to over-eating.
Interesting topic to share when so many other things are in the news. Trump obviously isn't making any money off sports betting if he is going after it. Considering how distracted the Administration is with power and control through lies and bullying, their motives are suspicious on any level. I'm surprised they have the time and interest pursuing this unless they somehow benefit (or especially profit) from any actions.
Asha Asha Asha. You keep doing this. I’m calling you the Shoei Ohtani of Journalism. Every time you write something. The next thing is better. It’s clear you’ve done your research. And somebody like yourself who is not an expert in this field it’s amazing how you break it down. Step by step. You walk us through. Thank you brilliant bravo. This article should be nominated for some type of award.
I’ve been screaming for the NBA to preserve integrity in your sport and protect your trillion dollar brand. The commissioner Adam Silver should ban and outlaw Prop bets all together.
You make that case clear. This isn’t the traditional fun Super Bowl prop bet of how long will the artist sing the national anthem. Or what Color will the winning teams Gatorade be. Or what team will score the touchdown first. Or what player will score the touchdown first.
A player can control how many assists he gets in a game. Or say hey coach my hammy is feeling a little tight. Let me get on the bike. With load management it’s so easy.
What Terry Rozier did put the whole league at risk. Cause now everything is looked at. And you have to look at everything. A coach can control when he pulls a player. So the prop bets in my opinion gotta go. What’s worth more a few million or a trillion. Get it out the sport.
You are so spot on. This is what brilliant journalism is all about. !!!!!!!!
Thank you Asha.
Asha hits a home run with her closing challenge, "The question now is whether the current state of sports betting is too popular, and too lucrative, for any regulation to come to fruition."
... I wonder how much time do average Americans spend watching, "fantasy leaguing", and betting on sports compared to the time we spend making ourselves "informed, citizens"?
There’s psychological research revealing that gambling addicts intentionally, though on a subconscious level, play games of chance until they lose everything. Gambling addicts are known for this kind of defeatist behavior in order to subconsciously feel justified in their post-large-monetary-loss self-flogging of their own psyches. (This formidable symptom of a gambling addiction can reach an extreme, one example having been aptly demonstrated in the film Owning Mahowny).
Thus, I’m left somewhat discouraged by the prevalence of fellow human beings who in contented-conscience procure and retain employment involving the exploitation of gambling addicts. While one might expect such disgracefulness from privately-owned casinos, one would expect better from a government-owned and -operated lotteries/games entity, which in my province comes in the form of British Columbia Lottery Corporation.
Unfortunately, it’s using the weaknesses of its more ‘loyal’ consumers, especially those with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. It tokenly offers gambling-addiction-withdrawal counselling services — as well as their ads’ quite insufficient “Know your limit, play within it” and/or “If you gamble, use your GameSense … 19+”. But it all hardly suffices for the significant and often irreparable financial damage done to addicts and their families.
And then there was/is BCLC’s audaciously and hypocritically self-serving “jackpot disentitlement rule” aspect of the formal “voluntary exclusion [request]” policy that falls under the Gaming Control Act. It enabled both publicly and privately owned lottery/gaming entities to withhold, ergo confiscate, sizeable winnings from addicts who had signed onto the ethically inexcusable agreement (presumably since then amended in compliance with the court’s ruling).
However, those large-profit gambling interests would permit themselves to keep any and all betting losses suffered by addicts who had signed the “voluntary exclusion [request]” form but still managed to access the casino.
A lawyer representing two plaintiffs who had their large winnings withheld by BCLC, though later ordered by a court to be rightfully handed back over to the plaintiffs, said that he had hoped the ruling would have retroactively ordered all such withheld winnings to be returned to their gambling-addict owners, regardless of the exclusionary agreement. “The lottery corporation had no right to withhold the winnings as a penalty [while] they’re taking both the losings and the winnings.”
Banning anything, imo, only pushes things underground where the activity will thrive regardless. Does legalization encourage participation while increasing the overall take? I think so. Speakeasy’s thrived during prohibition. Las Vegas legalized gambling in 1931 and organized crime moved in immediately. Batista’s corrupt Cuban government was propped up by mob leaders Luciano and Lansky’s kickbacks from gambling operations and was responsible for the Cuban revolution. It can be very difficult to regulate/legislate human behavior even when it results in self harm. Drug use, prostitution and gambling are “profit” centers and imo will thrive regardless, overtly or covertly.
Most of us feel compelled to self-medicate in some form or another (besides caffeine), albeit it’s more or less ‘under control’. And there are various forms of self-medicating, from the relatively mild to the dangerously extreme, that include non-intoxicant-consumption addictions, like chronic shopping/buying, pornography, over-eating, and gambling.
If such self-medicating forms are anything like drug intoxication or substance addiction, it should follow that: the greater the induced euphoria or escape one attains from it, the more one wants to repeat the experience; and the more intolerable one finds their non-self-medicating reality, the more pleasurable that escape will likely be perceived. In other words: the greater one’s mental pain or trauma while not self-medicating, the greater the need for escape from one’s reality — all the more addictive the euphoric escape-form will likely be.
With food, the vast majority of obese people who considerably over-eat likely do so to mask mental pain or even PTSD symptoms. I utilized that method myself during much of my pre-teen years, and even later in life after ceasing my (ab)use of cannabis or alcohol. I don’t take it lightly, but it’s possible that someday I could instead return to over-eating.
Interesting topic to share when so many other things are in the news. Trump obviously isn't making any money off sports betting if he is going after it. Considering how distracted the Administration is with power and control through lies and bullying, their motives are suspicious on any level. I'm surprised they have the time and interest pursuing this unless they somehow benefit (or especially profit) from any actions.