This Saturday, February 17, all casinos in the world celebrate International Responsible Gaming Day and Chile will be no exception. Dreams will illuminate its 7 gaming casinos and its collaborators and advisors will wear green t-shirts, joining this international commemoration that seeks to raise awareness about responsible gaming.
Instituted by UNESCO and promulgated by the European Betting and Gaming Association, the International Day of Responsible Gambling is a date that seeks to raise awareness about gambling, so that it is a pleasant and fun experience, and without risk. of harm to himself.
For more than 15 years, Dreams has been developing responsible gambling policies, training more than 380 counselors to identify cases of problematic gambling in our country and carrying out a self-exclusion policy.
“It is within this framework that this action of lighting up our casinos and wearing green t-shirts takes place, replicating this celebration in our casinos in Iquique, Temuco, Valdivia, Puerto Varas, Coyhaique, Punta Arenas and in Monticello, with the aim of raising awareness, highlighting and reinforce Responsible Gaming as an important element for both our clients and our collaborators,” said Mariela Huenchumilla, Corporate Manager of Responsible Gaming at Dreams.
One of them, according to Monticello counselor Gonzalo Zuñiga, alludes to the fact that play cannot become a necessity. “When the game becomes a necessity it stops fulfilling its purpose of being a pleasant pastime, a moment of recreation and entertainment, and the fact of crossing that point shows that we have a problem in the relationship with the game, for Therefore, it is important to stop and pay attention to this behavior,” says the counselor.
It should be noted that the celebration of the International Day of Responsible Gambling is added to the recent signing of the first mutual cooperation agreement between Dreams and the Gambling Studies Program of the prominent University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) with the objective to train professionals from both countries on the ground in both Responsible and Problematic Gaming.
The agreement includes training by Dreams on Responsible Gaming for the promoters of the NGO Misión y Compromiso who work with the native and Latino community with gambling problems in the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Tulare and Sacramento and UCLA will provide training on the subject. of Problem Gambling to the communities and gambling counselors, where Dreams is present, in order to identify players who are at risk.
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