Sweden gaming company Svenska Spel, which offers sportsbook, lottery site, poker room, casino site and bingo room, announced that it has subscribed to intelligent software that claims to minimise gambling addiction. The system, created by Sweden’s ICU Intelligence, analyses the betting habits of each player, how much money they place on bets, the conditions under which they bet and the frequency with which they wager their money.

Around five hundred thousand educators, psiquiatrists and games of chance experts are participating in the first International Conference on Gambling Addiction, whose aim is to study the problem in depth. During the two-day conference organized by the Singaporean National Council for gambling problems, assistants deal with the causes of the gambling addiction and the consecuences that such problem involves for the gambler and his family.