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Critical of the UK Gambling Commission

The UK Gambling Commission was put in place as a regulatory body to over see the UK land and online casino gambling industry and to ensure that the liberalization of the UK gambling industry did not translate into a higher incident of problem gambling. The Commission has been in place for well over a year now and some analysts and researchers in the industry are highly critical of the Commission’s policies and regulations that have been implemented within the past year. Online casinos and gambling is already addictive by nature and a pathological gambling special from the Royal College of Psychiatrists is largely critical of the Commission’s decisions and new regulations.

A TimesOnline article highlighted some of specialist Dr. Emanuel Moran’s opinions. Moran is particularly critical of the Commission’s recent decision to increase the level of prizes available at through UK fruit machines. Moran notes that addiction to fruit machines is the first step toward later addictive habits at the land and online casinos. Fruit machines are one of the most addictive types of gambling and Moran believes that the decision to increase the prize levels on the machines was irresponsible. With a higher limit more gamblers will certainly try their luck at the fruit machines – and when they lose money they will turn to the online casinos as a way to then make up for their losses – a vicious cycle leading to problem and addictive gambling habits.

Moran notes that seemingly all of the Commission’s decisions and new regulations are in favor of the land and online casino gambling industry over the safety of the gambling population. The new regulations all give the gaming companies and operators more chances for revenue while also upping the chances of addictive behavior from the gamblers themselves.