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NJ Lottery, QuickChek launch partnership with new online courier
Published: June 3, 2021
Powerball button on the NJ Lottery machine at Quick Chek in Lawrence Township (Dan Alexander, Townsquare Media NJ)
It s not the first digital courier program available in the Garden State, but Thursday s launch of Lotto.com in New Jersey creates a new way for lottery players to press their luck.
The scratch-built platform allows people to take a chance on a drawing simply by going to a website, rather than downloading an app such as Jackpocket.
Lotto.com CEO Thomas Metzger hopes it will enhance the e-commerce experience of playing the lottery by making the process more inclusive for younger, more affluent and more tech-savvy users.
Ease and accessibility.
That’s what people who deal with problem gambling fear most about the advent of online gaming, be it online sports betting, online casino games, ilottery or ikeno, all of which Connecticut lawmakers could approve before the current legislative session wraps up in June.
What can happen when gambling involves little more than tapping a mobile phone?
In New Jersey, which embraced online gaming in 2013, professor Lia Nower, director of the Center for Gambling Studies at the Rutgers School of Social Work, led a study several years later that found that 6.3% of the state’s residents had a gambling disorder three times the national average of 2.1%.
Have you filled out your bracket yet?
With the NCAA March Madness college basketball tournament getting underway this week, many Garden State residents are going in on office pools or placing individual bets on teams to win the championship.
For most, this provides a little harmless fun. For others, it’s an invitation to financial disaster.
According to Neva Pryor, the executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, the average number of calls to the 1-800-GAMBLER hotline in a month is 35, but over the past few weeks that number shot up to 158 calls.
She said with March Madness starting on Thursday, it’s especially important to be aware of some simple problem gambling warning signs.
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