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According to an article in The Times dated 10 April 2009, approximately 30,000 spread bet accounts were opened in the previous year, and that the largest study of gambling in the UK on behalf of the Gambling Commission found that serious problems developed in almost 15% of spread betters compared to 1% of other gambling.[1] A report from Cass Business School found that only 1 in 5 gamblers ends up a winner.[2] As noted in the report, this corresponds to the same ratio of successful gamblers in regular trading.[3] Evidence from spread betting firms themselves actually put this closer to being 1 in 10 traders as being profitable.[citation needed]