limit-setting, and behavioral tracking tools (Harris & Griffiths, 2017). Such strategies include the use of mandatory breaks in play, ‘pop-up’ messaging, personalized messaging. In online gambling, each transaction is assigned to an individual player account which means that various novel responsible gambling (RG) tools can be implemented to aid harm-minimization. Several studies report that online gamblers are more likely to show signs of problematic gambling than those who do not gamble online (e.g., Chóliz et al., 2019 Effertz et al., 2018 Griffiths et al., 2009 Volberg et al., 2018) although most online gamblers also gamble in offline environments too (Wardle et al., 2011). Moreover, online gambling has been associated with problem and pathological gambling among a minority of individuals (Lawn et al., 2020). However, in recent years online gambling has become more popular, especially among younger people (Gómez et al., 2019 Hollén et al., 2020 Molinaro et al., 2018). Generally, online gambling is less popular than land-based gambling. In recent years, the improved coverage, convenience, and widespread availability of the internet have been facilitating factors for the increased popularity of online gambling. The effects of a 60-minute mandatory break on the next day’s behavior were inconclusive. This means that a mandatory hour-long play break in an online casino setting appears to prevent overspending during a short period of time. The findings of the present study demonstrated that a 60-minute mandatory play break impacts players’ depositing and wagering immediately after the play break. Moreover, the percentage of players who stopped wagering as a consequence of the mandatory play break rose from 0.1% to 45% on the day of a play break. The percentage of players who stopped depositing money as a consequence of the mandatory play break rose from 27% to 68% on the day of a play break. The 2,201 players generated 2,994 corresponding events (i.e., the depositing of money at least 10 times in one day). Between July 23 and September 15 (2021), 2,021 players deposited at least ten times or more on a calendar day, at least once. The study comprised British online gamblers from Skillonnet (a European online gambling operator). The authors were given access to 27 days of player data prior to the introduction of a mandatory play break and 27 days of player data after the mandatory play break was introduced. Therefore, the present investigation was a large-scale real-world study which was designed to see whether a 60-minute mandatory play break influenced subsequent depositing and wagering. Despite many responsible gambling operators using mandatory play breaks, only three previous studies have examined their efficacy and the findings were mixed. One such RG tool has been the implementation of enforced mandatory play breaks. In recent years, various novel responsible gambling (RG) tools have been implemented to aid harm-minimization.
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