Setting Win Limitations

[Frank Kneeland]

Financial problems are probably the least reliable indicator of a gambling problem. Do you think if someone like Bill Gates loses 50k/day he would not have a gambling problem? Gambling problems are related to where your brain is, not your body. For anyone who lives and breathes gambling forums, that is a possible indicator of a gambling problem. Has nothing to do with winning or losing.

And Frank, I'm puzzled by your GA analysis. I don't for a second agree with you that they tell people that they can't win. Where is that?

I would agree with you, and the research I have been reading would as well. The medical community is only in the last five years beginning to modify the classification of pathological gambler to be less dependent on bank balance.

In reply to your second statement, I was told GA preached this by someone that had gone through the program themselves. It could have been something that was local to the GA chapter he frequented. There is variation between chapters. If you know more I'd love to share notes. My April 7th show had the ex-GA guest.

~FK