Institute of Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
J Gambl Stud. 2013 Jun;29(2):289-309. doi: 10.1007/s10899-012-9306-0.
Electronic gambling offers the opportunity to analyze huge and unbiased data sets of automatically recorded actual gambling behavior. This study refers to data on 2,127,887 poker playing identities from the Online Poker Database of the University of Hamburg (OPD-UHH) to analyze three subgroups of gamblers: regulars, newcomers, and dropouts. Their gambling habits over 6 months are analyzed in total, as well as over time. Regulars show a much higher involvement than non-regulars and increase their playing volume slightly over the observation period. Newcomers have a lower involvement than non-newcomers and most of them decrease their playing volume over time. Still, there is a small group of newcomers which increases their playing volume sharply and is, hence, very interesting for the industry as well as for the early prevention of pathological gambling. Dropouts have a higher gambling involvement than newcomers but play less than players who have not stopped stop gambling. Most dropouts also show a decreasing playing volume before dropping out. An analysis of the correlations between different variables of gambling habits shows that most of them reinforce each other, for example: gamblers with a higher total playing time tend to play at more tables simultaneously. Only playing frequency is a moderating variable of gambling involvement.
电子赌博提供了分析自动记录的实际赌博行为的大量且无偏数据集的机会。本研究参考了汉堡大学在线扑克数据库（OPD-UHH）中 2127887 个扑克玩家身份的数据，以分析赌客的三个亚组：常客、新手和辍学者。总共分析了他们在 6 个月内的赌博习惯，以及随时间的变化。常客的参与度明显高于非常客，并且在观察期内略有增加他们的游戏量。新手的参与度低于非新手，他们中的大多数人随着时间的推移会减少游戏量。尽管如此，仍有一小部分新手会急剧增加他们的游戏量，因此对行业以及病理性赌博的早期预防非常有意义。辍学者的赌博参与度高于新手，但比未停止赌博的玩家玩得少。大多数辍学者在退出赌博之前也表现出游戏量减少的趋势。对赌博习惯的不同变量之间的相关性分析表明，它们中的大多数是相互加强的，例如：总游戏时间较长的赌客往往会同时玩更多的牌桌。只有游戏频率是赌博参与度的调节变量。
