Author: Anna Kamber

Macau’s Responsible Gambling Comes Under Pressure

Macau’s Responsible Gambling Comes Under Pressure

Posted by | Oct 8, 2018 | |

Macau still remains one of the world’s foremost gambling venues outside the United States. The region benefits from a special exclusion rule from China’s onerous anti-gambling laws and it has been championing one of the most accomplished Responsible Gambling (RG) initiatives. But is the region’s handling of its business now risking to imperil all of this? It was in September when Macau commemorated 10 years since its Gambling (RG) initiative had been introduced. Everyone had much to be happy about. Responsible Gambling has clearly turned out to be a successful way to keep vice at bay and allow gamers...

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Major Highlights of the Congressional Sports Betting Hearing

Major Highlights of the Congressional Sports Betting Hearing

Posted by | Oct 1, 2018 | |

Last Thursday, a congressional hearing dubbed as a Post-PASPA: An Examination of Sports Betting in America was held to ascertain whether there is a need for federal oversight. As it stands, the current regulations only require oversight from individual states. This hearing is the first of its kind since the United States Supreme Court repealed PASPA and lifted the federal ban on sports betting, a move that allowed individual states to have the power to decide whether or not they would like to offer legal, regulated sports betting. Just like many other hearings, a bit of fiasco was witnessed...

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Responsible Gambling in the UK – A Possibility?

Responsible Gambling in the UK – A Possibility?

Posted by | Sep 24, 2018 | |

Responsible gambling in the UK may just need another nudge to become what people want it to be. And yet, there are quite a few hurdles to clear along the way. While the level of gambles has dropped, the number of those who remain problematic has kept steady and that reveals a dangerous trend. Overcoming the Problem Gambling Trend Most people who gamble, do so responsibly. They expect to turn a loss on their investment, which is the correct, and better yet – healthy attitude towards the activity. However, there’s a growing crop of players who are increasingly dependent...

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Macau’s Integirty Bid Pays Off Time and Again

Macau’s Integirty Bid Pays Off Time and Again

Posted by | Sep 17, 2018 | |

Macau has not been just a place to gamble. It has been a place to gamble responsibly. Even the United Kingdom where such practices are taken seriously, there have been some players who have decided to flaunt the rules quite grotesquely. But Macau is a different beast altogether. It was ten years ago that David Fong managed to win a landmark victory for customers by forcing casinos to advertise responsibly and not mislead patrons. Ten years later, the initiative is very much in place. David Fong’s Thoughts on Gambling The launching of responsible gaming initiatives in 2009 have been...

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MGM Springfield Introduces Responsible Gambling

MGM Springfield Introduces Responsible Gambling

Posted by | Sep 10, 2018 | |

MGM Springfield may as well be becoming a lodestar of the responsible gaming community. A community that consists not only of concerned NGOs, but also of players, former addicts, and businesses. With the adoption of GameSense as its new program on the territory of the MGM Springfield Hotel and Casino, the brand is bolstering its efforts to provide players with a safe gaming environment. MGM Springfield and GameSense Shake Hands MGM Springfield is taking significant steps to curb gaming addiction and teach its players how to gamble smartly and safely. Aware that gambling is before all a sort of...

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