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Online Casinos Take the Blame

In the grand scheme of things, land-based gambling has been around far longer than online casino gambling. But that isn’t stopping many critics and gambling opponents from blaming a potential increase in problem gambler statistics on the internet gambling industry. The Gambling Prevalence Study was commissioned two years ago when the UK government passed the 2005 Gambling Act, and results are due in just days at this point. The Gambling Act’s powers just came into effect earlier this month (September 1, 2006), and most industry analysts predict that the government will quickly use Gambling Act granted powers to address the reported problem gambling statistics – and most in the online casinos industry fear what this could mean for future regulations in the UK.

Recently a couple of newspapers have released a few alleged sneak peaks at the results from the Gambling Prevalence Study. The telegraph claimed that according to the Study’s research there has been a massive increase in 'problem gambling' in just eight years." General consensus in the industry is that gambling statistics will show a significant increase, but the online casino industry begs the media to put the statistics into perspective rather than outright blaming the increase in online casinos and internet gambling sites.

Its not just the online casinos though taking the blame. An increase in touch-screen roulette games is also partly to blame according to some in the industry. These roulette machines allow players to blow GBP 300 in just one minute. And though the roulette games are a problem, the media is still primarily focused on the increase in online casino sites.

Don Foster MP, a spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats’ noted criticized the online casino industry. He comments, “There has been a huge surge in online gambling but ministers have failed at every opportunity to bring Internet gambling companies onshore where they would pay tax and be properly regulated.”