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Statistical analysis of long term betting phenomenon: Journey game to addiction

For the past few years there was significant increase of the social problems connected to sports betting, which represents a big challenge to Croatian society and health care system. This problem demands interdisciplinary approaches which includes cooperation of experts and scientists from different Fields such as medicine, sociology, psychology, math and statistics. Random phenomena are a subject of study by mathematical statistics. In this paper we made a statistical model for large game series in sports betting. It is shown that possibility for winning in that type of series is almost negligible for betters. Analyses that are exposed in this paper shatter the illusion of quick money from sports betting. Therefore, the mathematical knowledge of sports betting should be included in the general education of society through specialized workshops on betting and gambling, for their effective prevention. We think that some results of this study would be useful to include in the treatment of addiction rehabilitation groups of pathological gambling addicts in order to reduce their will for gambling as possible source of quick income. This would certainly contribute to the correction of perception and expectation in conducting psychotherapy with problematic gamblers.

gambling, sport, addiction, psychology of sport, limit theorems

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