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More Interesting Info From Bwin Study Of Online Sportsbetting
High-stakes women gamblers who use the Internet to
wager on games win more often than men, according to a Harvard Medical
School study.
The Bwin-sponsored Harvard Medical School study of online sportsbettors
continues to reveal interesting and useful information on betting
demographics and patterns.
The latest results released from the 40 499-person study "favour
women as exhibiting more effective sports gambling behaviour than
men,'' wrote Massachusetts-based author Richard LaBrie and his team
of researchers. The results of the study, to be published later
this year by Berlin-based Axel Springer, were carried in Bloomberg
news service reports Friday.
Women wager higher stakes with more intensity than men. According
to the study's sample, women risked an average Euros 15 ($20.17)
per wager and bet 15 percent more often than men in a defined time
period. Men, who comprised almost 92 percent of the study's sample,
wagered an average Euros 11 per bet.
The study used data from Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, an
Austrian online bookmaker. The conclusions are based on eight months
of gambling patterns directly observed from player records in 2005.
The survey's biggest bettors were 50 percent less likely to lose
than smaller players, according to the 16-page report, titled Assessing
the Playing Field: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Internet
Sports Gambling Behaviour.
People who wagered a median Euro 44 per bet lost 9 percent of the
time, while people who wagered Euro 1 per bet lost 18 percent of
the time.
"Individuals who made larger wagers lost proportionately less
than individuals who made smaller wagers,'' the researchers said.
"These players place extreme amounts of money at risk but extreme
losses did not moderate their play.''
Earlier reports from the study cast doubts on assertions that online
sportsbetting is addictive.
"The findings reported here do not support the speculation
that Internet gambling has an inherent propensity to encourage excessive
gambling among a large group of players,'' according to the report.
The authors recommend further study to test whether Internet gamblers
fail to "meet other obligations.''
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