Elsewhere on the site you can read about the legality behind poker games that are played at home for money. Here we’re looking at the wider idea of gambling in venues, such as public houses, and the legality of doing so. Whilst poker tournaments and the like are obvious examples, what about pub quizzes in […]
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What Happened to WBX? Regulatory Burdens Too Much for the World Bet Exchange
WBX was an acronym for World Bet Exchange, an exchange betting platform that was founded in 2002 but didn’t launch until four years later. Malcolm Gray, the company founder, always intended to take his time launching WBX in order to ensure that it was well-positioned to compete with other exchange betting firms, such as Betfair […]
What Happened to All the Cozy Bingo Sites? Goodbye Cozy, Hello ElectraWorks
Cozy Bingo started out as a bingo network that predominantly operated white label sites. The sites could be set up relatively cheaply, with a starting price of about £5,000. The company began to grow quite quickly and soon offered punters as many as one hundred different bingo brands to choose from, including some well-known bingo […]
Are Home Poker Games for Money Legal?
Poker is one of the most popular card games in the world. It is played by people in casinos, poker rooms and other gambling establishments up and down the country. It’s also not exactly unheard of for people to organise poker games in their home for friends to come round and play, chucking money into […]
Can Under-18s Go into a Betting Shop?
Children are able to enter pubs if they’re accompanied by adults and there is no specific rule from the United Kingdom Gambling Commission that stops people under the age of eighteen from entering bingo halls, the rule preventing them from doing so being implemented by the bingo halls themselves. It’s therefore not exactly outrageous to […]
How to Become a Bookie: Licensing, Costs & Potential Profit
There is an old saying that you never see a poor bookmaker. It doesn’t really ring true, as many people who have once been active in the industry but failed to make it a going concern might tell you, but that doesn’t stop people think it is a fact. Consequently, more people than ever are […]
The Lottery’s Most Common Numbers: Which Numbers Have Been Drawn the Most?
There’s something about the lottery that makes most people abandon their logical senses. Theoretically, there’s no reason why a conservative run of number such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 couldn’t be drawn by the machine, yet there’s no chance that the majority of people would even think about selecting those numbers as […]
Which Country Has the Biggest Gamblers?
If you’ve ever been to Las Vegas and spent any time near the All-You-Can-Eat buffet, you’ll probably feel as though you’ve got an answer to this question. Obviously, when we ask about the ‘biggest’ gamblers we’re not talking about physical size but instead a number of other factors that determine how much gambling the citizens […]
What Happens If a Gambling Site Goes Bust?
It’s something that most people will never have to consider, but it’s not unheard of for gambling sites to go bust. The saying might be that the House always wins, but there can be a myriad of reasons why a betting site might find itself on the wrong side of financial issues. When that happens […]
Goodbye Microgaming Poker – MPN Closes After 17 Years of Action
Poker sites might seem to be ten to a dozen nowadays, but there was a time when they were relatively young on the scene. The Microgaming Poker Network soon climbed to the top of the pile, with the company behind it having developed the first ‘true online casino software’ back in 1994. They were also […]