DOYLES POKER ROOM RESPONSIBLE GAMBLING

Doyles Poker Room has a commitment to promote responsible attitudes to gambling and to work for the provision of proper care for those who have been harmed by gambling dependency. We've created a directory of non-profit organizations that can help with your gambling problem.

National Council
The National Council on Problem Gambling is the national advocate for programs and services to assist problem gamblers and their families. The mission of the NCPG is to increase public awareness of pathological gambling, ensure the widespread availability of treatment for problem gamblers and their families, and to encourage research and programs for prevention and education.

The National Council is neither for nor against legalized gambling. Our primary concern is to help problem gamblers and their families. Click here for more information.

Responsible Gambling Council
The Responsible Gambling Council helps individuals and communities address gambling in a healthy and responsible way, with a strong emphasis on preventing gambling-related problems.

Gambling is everywhere in our society, therefore, it is vital to support public education programs, research, and professional and public information services related to gambling. Click here for more information.

The Minnesota Problem Gambling Helpline
The Helpline is funded by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and is a statewide, toll-free confidential 24-hour Helpline to respond to Minnesota resident's requests for information and/or referral to services for problem gamblers and other concerned individuals. The Helpline number is 1-800-333-HOPE. You may also visit our list of Gamblers Anonymous (GA)/GamAnon meeting sites and times as well as a list of state approved gambling treatment providers. Click here for more information.

Youthgambling
Since 1992, Drs. Derevensky and Gupta and their graduate students at McGill University have endeavored to understand the underlying determinants and critical factors related to youth gambling problems. The Centre was initially established as the McGill Youth Gambling Research and Treatment Clinic and served as the focal point for research, the treatment of youth with gambling problems, as well as the training of researchers, clinicians and educators concerned with youth gambling. During this period the mandate and role of the Centre expanded, and research began to focus on multiple high-risk adolescent behaviors. In 2001, McGill University's Senate officially approved the International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors as a McGill University Research Centre. The Centre has expanded its work and now has several full time staff, and postdoctoral, doctoral and master's level students. The Centre is housed in Duggan House, a historic building on McGill University's campus in Montreal, Quebec and maintains a prominent presence in the development and coordination of an international research agenda. Click here for more information.

Gamblers Anonymous
GA is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop gambling. There are no dues or fees for Gamblers Anonymous membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. Gamblers Anonymous is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any cause. Our primary purpose is to stop gambling and to help other compulsive gamblers do the same.

Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real problem gamblers. No one likes to think they are different from their fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our gambling careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could gamble like other people. The idea that somehow, some day, we will control our gambling is the great obsession of every compulsive gambler. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of prison, insanity or death.

We learned we had to concede fully to our innermost selves that we are compulsive gamblers. This is the first step in our recovery. With reference to gambling, the delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. We have lost the ability to control our gambling. We know that no real compulsive gambler ever regains control. All of us felt at times we were regaining control, but such intervals - usually brief -were inevitably followed by still less control,which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced that gamblers of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period of time we get worse, never better. Therefore, in order to lead normal happy lives, we try to practice to the best of our ability, certain principles in our daily affairs. Click here for more information.