A study published in the Journal of Gambling Studies has reported that 41 percent of high-volume players stop depositing for the remainder of the day after a mandatory break, while 44.9 percent stop wagering.
The study evaluated the effects of 60-minute mandatory ‘play breaks’ as responsible gambling tools for online casino players in Britain. European gambling operator SkillOnNet provided anonymous data from a number of U.K.-based online casino sites with 2,021 players taking part in total.
The control period players gambled as normal without any mandatory play breaks, according to iGaming Business.
During the control period, the players produced 1,461 events which the study defines as depositing money more than ten times in one calendar day. Within the treatment period, 1,533 events took place.
An average of 73 percent of players who deposited at least ten times went on to deposit 11 times in a single day at some point in the measured period. For the treatment period, this percent was 32 percent.
The average age of players who deposited more than ten times a day at least once during the control period was 38.28 years old, and 56 percent were female. For the treatment period, the average age was 38.24 and 64 percent were female.
“This means that a mandatory play break in an online casino setting seems to prevent overspending during a short period of time,” the study said. “The results do not support previous assumptions and findings that mandatory play breaks lead to increased gambling afterwards.”
