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Florida is on the brink of incurring massive legal expenses to the amount of $450,000 after a judge sided with nine operators of card rooms in Miami, Jacksonville, and West Palm Beach, among other parts of the Sunshine State, and ruled in their favour in a dispute over what are known as “designated player” games. The state’s law distinguishes between two types of gambling games, the first ones being the so-called “banked games” where the casino sets up a bank against participating players, pays out winning bets, and collects losing…

The UK Gambling Commission plans on introducing measures to deal with the inefficacy of current self-exclusion schemes that aim at helping problem gamblers to reduce or stop their gambling activities altogether. The Commission’s decision is a response to the unsettling results of an investigation carried out by reporter Rob Cave for BBC’s 5 Live Investigates, who visited the town of Grimsby to investigate how efficient the current self-exclusion scheme is when it comes to discouraging compulsive gamblers from engaging in gambling activities. The town of Grimsby was chosen for the…

Berkshire resident Chris Best, 39 years of age, was brought to court and found guilty of abusing “his position of trust” after it was discovered he stole as much as £12,000 from a lady in her 80s, who was placed under the offender’s care. A problem gambler, Best took advantage of his responsible position and repeatedly used the elderly lady’s debit card to withdraw money from an ATM in order to fund his gambling addiction. The culprit’s scheme lasted for about a year and a half. He was finally caught…

In an interview for Eurogamer, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) explained that real dangers of loot boxes still remain unknown. The controversy which has recently been surrounding loot boxes recently seem to have divided the opinions in the UK gambling industry. The issue has also been commented on at the latest London-based conference of GambleAware, which was focused on so-called Harm Minimisation aimed at making the UK gambling industry safer, fairer, more transparent and more customer-oriented. GamebleAware has pointed the attention at some important issues related to the local gambling…

The Florida Seminole Tribe has started a legal action against a number of operators that run “electronic gambling parlors” across Duval County. The lawsuit filed by the local Indian tribe comes as a result of its allegations that such parlors breaching the exclusive right of the Tribe to offer casino-style gambling. According to court records, the Seminole Tribe filed the antitrust lawsuit in Duval County’s Fourth Judicial Circuit Court last week, saying that its’ exclusive compact with the state of Florida was violated by a number of internet cafés in…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) published a report, raising the red flag that children and young people in the country take part in gambling activities and situations without being explained all the risks sometimes. The report presented by the UK gambling regulatory body raises some questions about children gambling habits, especially when it comes to the impact that such activities could have on children in the long term. As Casino Guardian reported yesterday, the number of children and young people involved in gambling has risen to half a million on…

Yesterday, the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) revealed that it would demand the Government to impose a statutory levy in order to replace the current system that allows gambling operators to make voluntary funding for charity organisations engaged with research and treatment of gambling addictions. According to the RGA, the UK authorities need to make sure there is enough funding for the National Responsible Gambling Strategy. Currently, it is the non-governmental charity organisation GambleAware which oversees the voluntary funding system. The latter was initially created by the local gambling industry in…

According to a new survey, the results of which are expected to soon be reported by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), approximately half a million children and young people are involved in gambling activities on a weekly basis. The British regulatory authority has previously issued a warning that children at age as young as 11 are signing in “skin betting” websites, which allow players place bets using virtual items as currency. In this case, the items won by the players in video games are known as “skins” and are usually…

According to a new study, gambling advertising on the territory of Australia is experiencing a new wave of commercials that feature women and promote betting odds on popular TV shows across the country. The results of the survey showed that such an approach could end up altering female attitudes to betting. One of the researchers, the Deaking University’s associate professor Samantha Thomas, revealed that gambling and betting operators had normally run marketing campaigns in which women were not very much involved, and were merely features as secondary characters, as such…

The number of municipalities in Pennsylvania that have been opting not to host satellite casinos under the gambling legislation of the state has been constantly increasing. For the time being, two hundred townships and municipalities in Pennsylvania have announced their decision not to host mini-casinos. No less than 79 of them are located in the middle of the state. At the time when local lawmakers passed the long-awaited gambling expansion bill in the state at the end of October, municipalities across Pennsylvania were given the chance to make a choice…