When betting online with traditional sportsbooks, those very rare, genuine old style punters who win and those who show a betting style that they may win know the consequences – stake restricted accounts; £50 bets become £5 or even 5p bets. For those determined enough this has led to a daily game of ‘hide and…
I chose this blog title from many possibilities, because some of the ‘bookie social media crowd’ were calling it this. Of course none of these people attended the meeting unlike many who paid their own costs to be there despite having little money to do so due to gambling losses. This is to be expected…
Cheat, noun: “A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.” The recent BBC programme ‘Can you beat the bookies’ (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hjnl6) has thrown the spotlight on the modern gambling industry again. No doubt many discussions in pubs and clubs following the broadcast of this programme will have focussed on ‘courtsiding’. Huge numbers of…
Quite rightly the UK has a legal gambling industry, but it presently has a challenge like no other it has ever faced. This challenge is ‘hanging over its head’ like a big dark cloud. Those in the gambling industry who don’t recognise the extent of this danger are doing immense damage to their own industry….
The Bet24-7 social responsibility team confirmed today, following a 4-week internal investigation, that they are not guilty of social responsibility failings. Their internal investigation found there were no failings in their social responsibility processes despite evidence that their customer Mr PY Together had 120 failed deposits on 11 different debit cards, 422 reverse withdrawals, and…
Betting shop gamblers are offered drinks and free bets to keep them on high stakes machines, staff tell the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Source: Betting machine gamblers ‘offered perks’ – BBC News
This £2.8 million was taken out of this community and similar amounts are being taken from yours. This money could benefit your community and businesses, but it’s going into the pockets of large corporations. Hounslow High Street in London has 11 bookmakers and 44 fixed odds betting machines in a small area – and other cities…
Philip Deakin, who was given suspended sentence, is now working for Littleborough-based Calderbrook House Ltd Source: Accountant who stole £100,000 from aunt says he is trying to rebuild his life after returning to profession – Manchester Evening News
Source: Barnstaple gambler jailed after stealing from elderly aunt with dementia | North Devon Journal
Yesterday, an influential Scottish Parliament committee declared the fiendishly seductive fixed-odds machines to be ‘the crack cocaine of gambling’, Canada Drugstore, Canadian Drug Store viagra 100mg best viagra online Pharmacy Online, when to take viagra Cheapest Pharmacies writes CLARE FOGES. Source: Ban betting machines, David Cameron’s former speech writer CLARE FOGES says | Daily Mail…
‘£850,000 of Leeds firm’s money gambled away at Betfred #bookieshttps://t.co/cHPkMoYD0G pic.twitter.com/9nvAEdkTm1 — Zer0%_RTP (@andygosling2) January 17, 2016 (click on green text)
Four people discuss their experiences with high-stakes gambling machines and its impact on their lives. Source: ‘I’ve been turned into a hardened gambler’ – BBC News How the hell is this allowed on our high streets without a casino licence and a membership system? ‘Madness’
Source: Bingo’s new addicts: High-tech machines quicker at parting players from their money Another case of turning an old-style pleasure into an addiction. Don’t you just love these people.
Betwatch scheme in Woolwich where bookies net £50,000 a week from one arm bandits, South London Press Source: Betwatch scheme in Woolwich where bookies net £50,000 a week from one arm bandits | South London Press
With sportsmen three times more likely to gamble than the general population, why do so many risk so much on the ‘betting buzz’? Source: Gambling in sport: John Hartson on how betting nearly cost his life – BBC Sport We can hear some of you shouting; why should we feel sorry for professional footballers. However,…
Yesterday, an influential Scottish Parliament committee declared the fiendishly seductive fixed-odds machines to be ‘the crack cocaine of gambling’, writes CLARE FOGES. Source: Ban betting machines, David Cameron’s former speech writer CLARE FOGES says | Daily Mail Online At last a journalist who tells the truth and highlights the dodgy PR and practices that surround…
Holyrood should be given the power to ban fixed odds betting terminals from high street bookmaker shops, a committee of MSPs has concluded. Source: Call for high street betting machine ban – BBC News
Betting shop machines described as the ‘crack cocaine’ of gambling Source: Call to ban ‘addictive’ fixed odds betting terminals from bookmakers | Scotland | News
This time it’s BBC News that tells you about promoting legalised addiction: Click here. Only 3.5 minutes minutes of your time needed. Please contact the UK Gambling Commission and the Sports Minister to let them know you disapprove.
Like we keep saying some of you may not see this as a punter injustice, we do, as vast amounts of research says we are allowing the legal promotion of addiction on our high streets: Regulators do your job; government stop thinking about the tax take! Watch Channel 4 News to be informed by clicking…
Some of you may not see this as a punter injustice, we do; why? World academic research that is not sponsored by the gambling industry strongly suggests that roulette played on fixed odds betting terminals or online is the most addictive form of gambling, so why should companies be allowed to promote it so strongly? …
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