About this Handbook

This is a handbook that covers aspects of gambling and related topics:

• The theory and  entertainment value of games of chance
  
  
• The need humans have for excitement and the associated risk
  
  
• The regulations and the returns that governments extract from the gambling industry
  
  
• The psychology of risk taking and addiction
  
  
• Impulsivity and Pathological Gambling
  
  
• Codependency
  
  
• The potential problems for players and their families that are associated with excessive gambling and even gambling  addiction
  
  
• Legal regulations that government and the gambling industry put in place to ameliorate the negative effects of excessive gambling

 

 

The handbook also focuses on associated material, including:

• How one should responsibly manage one's finance
  
  
• Setting up a business with a coherent business model
  
  
• Banking accounts, stokvels and rates of interest
  
  
• Basic statistical models of games of chance
  
  
• The use of mathematical models to measure the risk and return aspects of gaming