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The Thai government focused a lot of police attention on stopping land and online betting on the 2008 Euro Championship – and even with nearly 1,100 individuals arrested for gambling offenses analysts predict that the arrests and raids do not even touch the tip of the iceberg. Sports and betting fanatics all over the world followed the just-ended Euro 2008 football championship games with interest and money – and it really doesn’t matter what their local government had to say about the whole situation. Now that the Euro 2008 has ended, Thai police have announced the total figures for this year’s illegal land and online casino betting season.

The government in Thailand used a special task force over the past several weeks in attempts to really put a stop to the heavy land and online casino betting rings that were cropping up everywhere. And while some might observe that the taskforce barely made a dent in the amount of total betting that took place in the country, the police were able to confiscate more than $30,000 in betting monies, in addition to 1,098 people arrested for involvement in the land and online casino betting rings.

The police raids and arrests led to the confiscation of roughly $15.7 million in betting slips – only a small portion of the $1.2 billion that analysts predict Thai gamblers spent on the Euro 2008. The fact is, although the Thai government continues to ban land and online casino betting and gambling activities citizens are able to circumvent the ban by using gambling and betting rings, or at least heading over the border to gamble.