Just see these actions to be quite useless, people been gambling and lost their houses in card games etc... far as history can be see, that magic £2 max bet wouldn't stop any problem gambler from losing, with that bet size you can still lose hundreds in hour when many gambling addicts have ended up to situation that they gamble everything when they get money, their gambling budget might be relatively low as they spend everything, that £2 max bet wouldn't really help them. I think average disposable income in UK some years ago was £1850 or something, how long time you need to lose that to slots even with £2 bets? Not many days i guess.
Banning things haven't yet help in anything, there are more drug addicts than ever same time when laws against them have been made more strict in last 100 years or something. Alcohol was banned in many places, did it stop people drinking or did it create huge cashflow for criminals who were selling booze?
You can't force people not to bang their head to wall if they willing to do that, you can try to educate them and tell that it hearts and don't make good for you. Like people should be more educated that every cent you play to slots, is most probably lost money and off from other things you might wanted to spend it, i think there are quite a lot information available and big majority of people don't think they get rich buy playing slots but just wanna have their little excitment in chance of win, like big majority of people can handle their alcohol and drug consuming and not ending up to be homeless addicts.
I can't just figure out many examples from history when banning or limiting something really strictly would get really good results, maybe there are but just failing to find these. In this one as well, more logical it would be make whole gambling illegal if want to send message that it's not ok and we don't want people to do that instead of making tons of silly regulations when trying to save people just be little bit addicted but not over £2 spins. It's quite small percent of people who really come to severe gambling addicts, is that small groups problem so huge that majority of people need to be limited because of them? There should be much more efficient way to help these people than trying to limit their doings which they easily can circumvent anyway.
Banning things haven't yet help in anything, there are more drug addicts than ever same time when laws against them have been made more strict in last 100 years or something. Alcohol was banned in many places, did it stop people drinking or did it create huge cashflow for criminals who were selling booze?
You can't force people not to bang their head to wall if they willing to do that, you can try to educate them and tell that it hearts and don't make good for you. Like people should be more educated that every cent you play to slots, is most probably lost money and off from other things you might wanted to spend it, i think there are quite a lot information available and big majority of people don't think they get rich buy playing slots but just wanna have their little excitment in chance of win, like big majority of people can handle their alcohol and drug consuming and not ending up to be homeless addicts.
I can't just figure out many examples from history when banning or limiting something really strictly would get really good results, maybe there are but just failing to find these. In this one as well, more logical it would be make whole gambling illegal if want to send message that it's not ok and we don't want people to do that instead of making tons of silly regulations when trying to save people just be little bit addicted but not over £2 spins. It's quite small percent of people who really come to severe gambling addicts, is that small groups problem so huge that majority of people need to be limited because of them? There should be much more efficient way to help these people than trying to limit their doings which they easily can circumvent anyway.
Of course there are loads of material which is shared only between regulator and industry and not available public, that would make it too easy to find loopholes from regulations, most of things published in UKGC website, have much more detailed rules and practices but these are not meant to be shared, loads of communication have this kind of text in them:
