We found problem gamblers were able to shift their intense focus away from the gambling task. |
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Evidence points to the common existence of narcissistic personality characteristics and impulse control problems in pathologic gamblers. |
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I'm impressed by the solitary intensity of the gamblers, and the way these solipsists at the slots form a community of obsession. |
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I have no tolerance for compulsive gamblers, this stemming from a personal experience with one. |
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But some people fear they could be the breeding ground for the compulsive gamblers of the future. |
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But I think, you know, the combination of a wild stock market with Internet accessibility has turned a lot of people into compulsive gamblers. |
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The changes will also lead to an increase in the number of problem gamblers, the study concludes. |
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Then there are the casino gamblers, who treat poker as an elaborate version of roulette. |
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He must be capable of entertaining politicians, industrialists, the unemployed, pickpockets, gamblers, philanthropists, popsies and prudes. |
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Set in Los Angeles of the 1930s, it depicts a dark and uncertain world, a world of pornographers and gamblers. |
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The Tax Code also requires casinos to gather personal data on their gamblers for reports. |
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Some states limit the number of casinos they will accept as well as the amounts of money gamblers can bet. |
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The World Cup in Japan and South Korea is seen by the industry as a golden opportunity to attract new gamblers to online betting. |
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High Street betting shops do not identify gamblers which can make detecting fraud, and prosecuting fraudsters, more difficult. |
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Every yard has its boozers, shirkers, grumps, gamblers and cack-handed riders. |
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The discoverers of Mt Morgan, Qld, in 1882 were gamblers who searched where others passed by. |
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Who represented Boss Tweed, boss of the underworld, pet of the gamblers, and the leader of liquor interests? |
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The established main companies plan to open new outlets to cater for the deluge of cash being wagered by city gamblers. |
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Under the cloak of anonymity, lovers, adulterers and closet gamblers were free to behave appallingly. |
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In these clans, father, mother, son, daughter will all play, and even people marrying into the family generally become professional gamblers. |
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I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint. |
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Other gamblers turned their attention to punting on the result of the negotiations between the union and the casino. |
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Beggars, gamblers, drunkards, and prostitutes walked the streets, looking for money which, one way or the other, they would get. |
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Times Square is all abustle with petty crooks, lazy cops, and especially, gamblers. |
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The media expects all training gallops on a racecourse to be made public so gamblers are informed. |
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But the absence of the traditional enemy didn't spoil the fun for assortment of enthusiasts including gunslingers, gamblers, and their womenfolk. |
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The casinos would be subject to strict regulation and would be required to block minors and compulsive gamblers. |
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And when it comes to problem gamblers, too, let's not tell them they're diseased or zombified. |
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Money can be laundered through casinos by gamblers who buy chips, then cash them and provide a receipt to legitimise the proceeds. |
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There was an element of ill luck, but every so often, as gamblers would tell us, long odds do come off. |
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At the casino, near the area where gamblers normally try their luck at the slot machines, authorities held scores of people after the shooting. |
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A recognised trait among gamblers is that you are likely to spend more when you are not physically handing over money. |
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How useful is it to tell overweight people or gamblers that they have a disease? |
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For gamblers used to the relative calm of Las Vegas, the feeding frenzy in Macao can be a bit of a shock. |
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When big races such as the Classics come around, many occasional gamblers will latch onto him, thus reducing the starting price. |
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As many gamblers have testified, taking a chance with your cash is likely to lead to heartache and empty pockets. |
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His ability to give bad luck to others lands him a job at a casino, where he spoils the winning streaks of gamblers. |
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Given how opinionated and dissolute they are, you'd expect sports journalists to be shrewd gamblers. |
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High-roller gamblers from Asia tend to chain-smoke, which has traditionally gone hand-in-hand with drinking and gambling. |
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One movie involves cute little nerdy kids while the other involves swarthy, gamblers hunched over large piles of chips? |
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A generation ago over two thirds of chronic gamblers bet on the horses, only one in five played on the poker machines. |
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He says with 300,000 Australians now considered chronic gamblers, it's time the Federal Government took some responsibility. |
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Because treatment tends to be individually focused, most family members of pathological gamblers never receive the care they need. |
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We found that our three probable pathological gamblers usually gambled with family and close friends. |
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Probable pathological gamblers have a score greater than 4, and were included in the present study as problem gamblers. |
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Psychologists and social workers define pathological gamblers as those whose gambling is persistent and out of control. |
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The essential problem with compulsive gamblers, however, is their blindness to this pathological desire to lose. |
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Women are often closet gamblers and their husbands and families are the last to know about the addiction. |
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The bar was a gathering place for gamblers, mobsters, mafiosi, and, occasionally, corrupt cops and agents. |
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Most people would think it laughable to say that high school kids are more likely to be problem gamblers than adults. |
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Controlling for these and other variables, gambling addiction was found to be a significant discriminator between problem and non-problem gamblers. |
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The internet genie is out of the bottle: some 3.3 million EU citizens are regular online gamblers. |
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City gamblers normally take a punt on the movement of financial indices, such as the FT All Share, or the FTSE index of Britain's top 100 companies. |
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Okrent feared that this might make them gamblers — personae non gratae — in the eyes of the sport's custodians. |
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Casino loan sharking activity that targets compulsive or pathological gamblers creates additional risk. |
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Both stock market investors and gamblers may consult a fortune teller to find an auspicious stock number or date to place the bet. |
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Named after the Tipperary stud farm they own, it refers to a group of immensely rich Irish high rollers who are gamblers by nature, trade and inclination. |
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After all, Lady Luck does not like stressed gamblers but tends to award its smile to the relaxed and cheerful ones! |
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Soon, it will resound to the kerching of slot machines pumping out cash as gamblers score jackpots. |
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Before, gamblers who did not pay up were getting killed, today they commit suicide. |
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Those who indulge in deviant behaviour like smoking, drinking, drug abuse and breaking the law are also more prone to becoming pathological gamblers. |
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We should even extend the scope of this proposal to include high-spending gamblers and auctioneers at the top end of the market. |
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The gamblers earnings as well as the earnings of the casino go completely untaxed. |
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And the introduction of accumulators, where gamblers can win huge sums with a low stake by predicting a series of wins, gave him the odd heart murmur down the years. |
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We had been like gamblers who keep placing money and hope in a slot machine, sure that the next pull will be the one. |
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They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world. |
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Online gamblers tend to be young unmarried and have low income and education levels. |
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In reality, they often have more in common with gamblers who hope to tap into goldmines. |
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Langer didn't say that it was only arrogant gamblers who upped their bets in the presence of the schnook. |
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Pathological gamblers may become easily addicted to online gambling because of the Internet's easy access, privacy and instant results. |
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We have a policy to ban players who identify themselves as problem gamblers. |
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Today, the criminal world is more than ever involved in money laundering and loan sharking to the considerable detriment of compulsive gamblers. |
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The yakuza were traditionally federations of gamblers and street merchants. |
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The side bets would satisfy the gamblers among us, and the true horse lovers could watch them run like the wind. |
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Because the Internet can be used anonymously, there is a real danger that underage gamblers will abuse online gambling sites. |
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Within months she was a heroin addict, pregnant with their first child, and at his behest prostituting herself in Las Vegas to alcoholic gamblers to support both their habits. |
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I fear that there are people who have it in them to be compulsive gamblers but do not know it, and could become addicted if there was a casino on their doorstep. |
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For the gamblers, sharpers, and confidence men who exploited the wilder side of Gilded Age America, that critique required a fair amount of self-denial. |
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His research interests include the treatment of pathological gambling, gambling-related cognitive psychopathology, and concurrent disorders among gamblers. |
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Shimmele doesn't take it seriously when his father rants that Memphis's gamblers and drunks are possessed by dybbuks. |
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The clink and jangle of the amusement arcade caught my ear, and I joined other eager gamblers throwing good money after bad in the name of pre-flight entertainment. |
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Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square. |
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Outlaw, their fourth album, sets out to romanticise Britain's famed criminals in the same way that American country music celebrates its history of gunslingers and gamblers. |
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Guys and Dolls should be a fast-paced world full of floozies, gamblers, bootleggers and gangsters. |
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He once arrested forty gamblers in their lair, single-handed. |
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The SOGS is a standard measurement tool for identifying nongamblers, probable gamblers, and pathological gamblers. |
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The popular view is that they are gamblers out to make a fast buck. |
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The seemingly endless supply of gamblers has dried up. |
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With the creation of the World Wide Web, playing online Blackjack games has become one of the most favorable pastimes for gamblers all across the planet. |
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Saltzman seems to have stepped straight out of one of Mordecai Richler's novels about blazingly nervy and alive Canadian-Jewish bluffers and gamblers. |
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Beginning with old school techniques Griffin Investigations, Inc. began their agency gathering information for small casinos on gamblers who threw loaded dice or manipulated slot machines and card decks. |
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But the sensational allegation that its players plotted with gamblers to fix elements of a recent Test match against England has turned a bout of badness into full-blown crisis. |
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If only the mutually exclusive groups are considered, then a 53 percent majority of all the problem gamblers in counselling can be described as slot machine gamblers only. |
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Three Detroit casinos pull in Midwestern gamblers. |
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But gamblers fled the casino in greater numbers, and Revel now looks doomed. Since the 1970s the casinos have delivered essential lucre to New Jersey's coffers. |
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Previously, gamblers could only exclude themselves from one betting shop at a time and had to fill in forms for each different company. |
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As surgeons prepare to amputate a gangrened foot to prevent infection from spreading to healthier parts of the body, gamblers on the sidelines bet on which limb will go next. |
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He meets joyriders, poachers, gunrunners, gamblers and drug addicts in this documentary series, filtering the experiences through the trauma of his own life. |
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The interclub games attracted the interest and influence of gamblers. |
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They sneak you into becoming gamblers on television. |
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Compulsive young gamblers are a particular concern. |
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The Commission has examined the terms of sale of the Tote because the Tote offers online betting services to gamblers in other Member States, including betting on sports events in other EU countries. |
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Participants who reported a mental illness also had significantly higher rates of current emotional distress as well as greater substance use and substance use problems, compared to gamblers without a psychiatric diagnosis. |
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There had been no statistically significant differences observed in the prevalence rate for problem gambling, nor any detectable differences in the profile of problem gamblers. |
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Secondly, the survey included some very sensitive questions about background and personal behaviour, which may have made heavier gamblers, or potentially problem gamblers, uncomfortable, leading to a refusal for recontact. |
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While Turkish Cypriots cross more to work and shop, the only people who go north by all accounts are die-hard peaceniks and gamblers. |
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Despite the high frequency of play for lottery ticket games, the percent of players who qualify as problem gamblers tends to be significantly lower within this player group. |
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One is to put sideboards on a lottery operation that has helped create a dismayingly large number of problem gamblers across the state. |
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All year round, the many casinos draw gamblers and night owls. |
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The outcome was that eight of its ballplayers conspired with gamblers including former boxer Abe Attell to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. |
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A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of N-acetylcysteine plus imaginal desensitization for nicotine-dependent pathological gamblers. |
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Rather than catch gamblers in a spiderweb of slot machines, a situation that risked breeding anxiety, casinos should seduce them with a sense of magnificence. |
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The Enron bankruptcy of 2001 demonstrated the folly of allowing the corporate equivalent of Mississippi riverboat gamblers to run an essential service as critical as energy supply. |
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The people is made of dwarfs, gamblers and charlatans who, as if following the artist's order, come into the scene, bow, ask for applause and for a little offering. |
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The celebrated garden in which suicidal gamblers used to put an end to their troubles was overgrown with mesembryanthemum. |
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At many horse races, there is a gambling station, where gamblers can stake money on a horse. |
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While the boxers catch their breath, the gamblers wave their arms and wiggle their fingers in an intricate system of signals that lets the bookies know how much they want to bet on which fighter at what odds. |
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They didn't seem to care about making money from anyone stupid enough to back Douglas, but even the most punch-drunk gamblers in Vegas would have avoided those teasing odds. |
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There are gamblers who get a charge out of playing the odds and thrive off risk. |
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Previous research by Welte found that people are twice as likely to be problem gamblers if they live within 10 miles of a casino. |
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Among the amber gamblers, 33 per cent said they did not have time to stop while 27 per cent said they were in a rush to get to work. |
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Some other gamblers advise having a break exactly after a large win. |
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Day-traders learn how to cash out of down positions right away while gamblers always try to make up their losses. |
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But just a few hundred yards away, ignored by all the cameramen, a long line of gamblers was walking unconcernedly along wooden walkways to board a river boat casino. |
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Regulators can say what games are allowed, to reduce their addictiveness, and get the industry to promote counselling services for problem gamblers. |
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Most people are more conservative than gamblers, therefore we are starting to see more lock-ins. |
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The results of the study have shown that it is possible to distinguish four groups of pathological gamblers based on their personality traits and associated psychopathology. |
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The typical farmer did not own a horse in the first place, and racing was a matter for gentlemen only, but ordinary farmers were spectators and gamblers. |
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Among the driving errors being targeted by the patrols will be tailgating by lorries, amber gamblers at lights and people who break rules at roundabouts. |
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Amber gamblers Having been added to the club colour scheme, amber became increasingly used as the main colour on Everton away shirts from 1961 onwards. |
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The gamblers cashed in their remaining chips at the end of the night. |
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