Online Gambling Tool to Be Implemented in Sweden

August 21, 2007

There is a new tool for online casinos that will assist in preventing online gambling addiction. The new tool, “Spelkoll,” will help online casinos keep their clients from developing an online gambling obsession – hence helping those that either have an online gambling addiction already, or have yet to develop one.

The “Spelkoll” or “player or gambling control” as it is defined, is a technology development that would identify the online gambling patterns of a player. It would keep track of the ways that the player gambles and would be able to discern if someone has a problem or if they were in the process of developing an online gambling issue.

The Swedish government’s online gambling website Svenske Spel introduced the gaming tool in July, but hardly anyone noticed. However, since then, more and more people have been noticing the new program and people are interested. It is currently a voluntary sign up that the government is offering – this way people can know for themselves. They would simply use the software which would then let them know if they were developing or had an online gambling addiction.

The online gambling prevention program would check how people play, how often they play, what they wager, etc. and would divide them into categories. The green would be the lowest level – or no online gambling addiction detected, while orange would have moderate signs of online gambling addiction and red would mean that a problem was definitely developing for the player.



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