Players upset with new UK Gambling regulation

The new government regulations on online gambling could prevent the ongoing growth of the industry, according to many currently active players. There has been a steady increase in the popularity of online gambling in the UK over the past decade or so. An increasing number of players are vying up for a chance to win the big prize money.

However, the new government regulations could stifle the growth of the favourite online activity of millions of people from around the world.

There are new regulations in for force on advertising for an online casino in the UK. No deposit offers were attracting an increasing number of new players. However, the new regulations will put an end to it. As per the new laws, online casinos are not allowed to promote their games as having free spins. Many players are upset with such legal crackdown on advertising online casinos. They say that the earlier situation allowed them to test a casino before actually committing big funds. After the new regulations, they are not able to test the casinos before depositing.

The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice and the Committee of Advertising Practice have charted the new laws with an intention to put an end to online casinos targeting vulnerable players. This law to protect these so-called “vulnerable players” has seen many of them crying foul over the impact of the new gaming laws.

The new regulations imposed on the casinos are affecting the player’s ability to get free spins which allow players to play the online slot machines without spending their own money. This allows the players to not only test the casino to see if they like it but also gives them the chance to win some money without spending theirs. The advertising laws state that online casinos are not allowed to advertise free spins although of the smaller ones still do. Casinos are forced to use different terms such as bonus spins.

UK players are not the only affected by new online gambling laws. The poker world has also been affected by new laws making it illegal to play online poker for money in Australia. The ban has seen many professional and recreational players resorting to alternative measures such as playing physically in a casino or online using a VPN.

The governing bodies have been slowly but surely tightening the belt on the online gambling community and the millions of users worldwide are not happy. The first major nation to be banned from online gambling was America. The players found loopholes around this by using third party payment processing companies and often having to wait long periods of time before receiving their hard earnt paycheck – if at all. Australian company Instabil was a payment processing company used by many players and many of the big-hitting poker companies until its demise in 2009, leaving many players penniless due to the company’s collapse. As more and more countries slowly tighten the belt on online gambling, this leaves the industry open to unscrupulous companies such as Instabil to swoop on the vulnerable people and take their hard earned money.

Australia was recently hit with a curveball. Australia’s vibrant online poker and gaming community is no longer as the government recently imposed laws prohibiting them from enjoying this much loved past time. Australia is not the only country affected by online gambling industry bans. The list of countries continues to grow and includes France and Germany.

So when does it end?  As the noose tightens on the gaming industry, players and companies are fighting back for their right to play and host online casinos. The big players in the online gambling community have been hit hard with the promise of hefty fines for advertising free spins and the players are also out of sorts with the ruling and are having trouble finding value for their money. Player Paul from the UK has been quoted in saying, “I like to test the casino first by using their free spins, so I don’t have to put down money to do this. Sometimes I even win on the free spins and any extra free something is welcome in my books.”

Jenny, a seventy-six-year-old retiree from Plymouth says, “I worked all my life to amass enough money to enjoy my retirement, and I love to play the online games. The free games give me the opportunity to win a little extra money with no outlay and it is also a great way to test the games. Problems gamblers will find a way to gamble no matter what. The majority of people that gamble do it for fun. So why should a small handful of problem gamblers affect my ability to have a bit of fun online? I have paid taxes all my life and lived by the rules and over my seventy-six years, I have seen many freedoms slip away. What’s next?”

Source: warrington-worldwide.co.uk