Gambling Terms for Students
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Not being able to resist the urge to gamble. This leads to damage to a person's personal life, family, or job. It is a disorder or addiction that can be helped. It is also referred to as pathological gambling. |
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A fellowship in which people share their experience, support, and hope in order to stop gambling and build better lives. |
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A term used to describe the gambler when gambling. Some describe it as a physiological and psychological arousal. |
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The possibility of losing an amount of money (or other wager) that is bet on the outcome of an event, contest, game, or machine. |
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Money given to a gambler to allow him/her to pay debts without suffering consequences. This is a way of enabling a person to continue to pursue gambling instead of facing the consequences of his / her losses. |
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A patient staying in the hospital or treatment center for treatment of addictions. |
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A game of chance where tokens, keys, or other objects are sold. Of these items only one is the winner. The winner is usually selected randomly by a drawing. |
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The amount of money or the object that is risked in a wager. |
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A game of chance where the players use a board divided into numbered or lettered squares. |
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A gambling facility that normally includes all or a combination of the following: slot machines, video games, card games, and other games such as keno, craps and bingo. |
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The urgent need to keep gambling - often with larger bets - or the taking of greater risks in order to make up for a loss or series of losses. |
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Heavy gambling by people who are not fully addicted and can stop but who experience problems related to their gambling. |
