Author: Daniel Williams

A recent study carried out by the Deakin University, three out of four children who watch sports strongly associate sports games with wagering money on the result of such games. The results of the study have shown that the gambling age is continuously falling. As shocking as it may seem to some parents, this makes sense, especially considering the rising popularity of online betting and mobile phones gambling and betting applications. The Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (VRGF), Louise Glanville, warned that some parents need to…

A problem gambling treatment expert in Ireland shared his concern about spreading gambling addiction among young people across the country. The manager of the Limerick-based Saoirse Addiction Treatment Centre, Alan Galvin, explained that compulsive gambling is one of the most serious “epidemics” the country is facing. He said that he is concerned about the rising popularity of online gambling among young people and described the lack of control they usually demonstrate as one of the major issues. Mr. Galvin further shared that the variety of gambling operations offered on the…

The South Taranaki Club is to join 80 other venues in New Zealand which are to switch off their poker machines for an hour during the Gambling Harm Awareness Week. The bar and restaurant establishment is to take part in The Pause the Pokies initiative, risking a loss of quite some money, in an attempt to raise local residents’ awareness about gambling-related harm and problem gambling. Next week, over 80 venues in New Zealand are to turn off their electronic gaming machines, also known as poker machines, or pokies, for…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) warned the online gambling operators that they must make sure all unfair restrictions for money withdrawals from customers’ accounts are removed. Otherwise, companies will have to face the gambling regulatory body’s enforcement action. The main gambling regulatory body which monitors and controls the gambling sector in the UK is committed to raising standards to the customers of the country’s gambling industry and is aimed at making sure they are fairly treated by operators. As the UKGC Executive Director Paul Hope reminded, last month the Commission…

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has approved new rules in terms of gambling advertising throughout live sports events streamed on the Internet. Under the new rules, a more restrictive regime is to be implemented on advertising gambling content during live sport online. The piece of legislation, called Broadcasting Services (Online Content Service Provider Rules) 2018, makes sure that streaming platforms would not advertise gambling during sports events aired on the Internet in the interval from 5:00 AM to 8:30 PM. The rules apply to e-sports and are set…

Hundreds of people who live in the Northland Region of New Zealand seem to be spending millions on poker machines on an annual basis. What is worse, most of them usually go through a crisis due to increasing debts that pile up as a result of their gambling habits. As recently revealed by Casino Guardian, The Māori and Pacific population not only spend a lot on gambling, and especially on so-called pokies, but are also at the highest risk of becoming problem gamblers. According to some figures released by the…

According to a recent report from the Director of Public Health in Wirral, local gamblers have spent the mind-blowing amount of approximately £13 million on betting with bookmakers in a year only. The spending trend has been reported to have had a massive impact on the most disadvantaged parts of the metropolitan borough, making them even poorer. As revealed in the above-mentioned report, local bookmakers have received an overall amount of £12.9 million from Wirral residents in the 2016/2017 year. The Wirral’s Director of Public Health further revealed that harmful…

As Casino Guardian reported at the beginning of August, gambling still has a heavy impact on people in the Pacific region, with levels of gambling-related harm remaining almost unchanged, in spite of the fact that overall gambling participation rates fall. The findings emerged as a result of the latest national gambling study held by the Auckland University of Technology and funded by the Ministry of health. At present times, the figures which were revealed at the time when the research results were announced remain pretty stable, with Māori and Pacific’s…

As the popularity of eSports and eSports betting is surging in the United States and around the globe, an increasing number of US colleges are offering eSports programs and scholarships. In the UK, despite the growing demand from students, universities still lag behind schools across the pond. Researchers at Eilers & Krejcik Gaming estimate that $6.7 billion is wagered globally on professional eSports every year. While this number encompasses the bets placed both legally and illegally, the legalized market is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Betting on…

Three men aged 31 to 48 have been imprisoned in Chester Crown Court for stealing small amounts of cash from slot machines. The gang was targeting gaming machines in pubs across the country and never thought they would be caught. But they were spotted on CCTV and eventually arrested. The crime spree was described by the police as quite brazen, but it did not last long – from October 2017 to April 2018, Luke Partington, 35, Ian Parker, 31, and David Gordon, 48, conspired to steal from gaming machines across…