A seminar titled "Baccarat Kills Families" was held at the Mandarin Hotel in Bangkok and was organized by an anti-gambling group and health authorities to raise awareness about the threat of the card game.
The Daily News newspaper suggested that at least 10,000 Thai families had been destroyed by online baccarat.
Players who fell in love with the game spoke of their addiction and distress.
The seminar leaders compared this phenomenon to the pandemic, saying that knowledge was the vaccine needed to stop its spread.
Anti-gambling group secretary Thanakorn Komkrit said the nature of baccarat made it a particular threat.
He emphasized how quickly opportunities renew themselves, encouraging players to keep trying, chasing losses and being encouraged to continue by apparent near misses of winning.
It is available 24/7 and high stakes can be placed.
It affects all age groups in Thailand, from children to retirees, and it is a threat that must be combated.
A player named "A" said he started at 21 and within a few years had lost half a million baht.
This had created big problems between him, his girlfriend and his family.
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Source: dailynews.co.th, thaivisa.com
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4 comments
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road massacre…
usurious loans…
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What are the competent authorities and the government "elected" by the people waiting for to protect Thai people from this fraudulent online bankruptcy? Are they incapable of blocking this site? Obviously, the answer is YES, but it is easier to block the internet accounts of certain students and political opponents.
Here, we are talking about Thai families who are falling into poverty because of mafia online games.
Unless some influential people who are part of the Thai nomenclatura find their account there, which would not be very surprising, when we see the difficulties, the slowness and the few means implemented by the Thai authorities to fight the corruption present at the highest level in this kingdom.
There it is:
Thailand orders the blocking of online gambling sites.
It must be said on this subject that this government is the one that has fought the most against corruption and that the same thing would not have happened with the opposition, as the leader of the opposition, Thaksin, who still directs his activists from abroad, has investments in casinos in Cambodia.
We have the same at home, if not worse. And I think I know the subject, having been a croupier for a few years. Each to their own drug.