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The Thai government has announced that the authorities plan to closely monitor all of the land and online casino betting activity that is taking place in the country related to the currently running World Cup matches. The monitoring process involves several official centers set up in Bangkok and other areas of Thailand to really allow the officials to track down and stop some of the huge internet betting rings that are prominently running throughout Thailand despite the fact that the Thai government has no fully laid out and appropriate methods in place for tracking the online casino bets. The Thai government seems to be fighting a losing battle against the land and internet betting rings in the country because large-scale betting is still so prominent.

Estimations show that nearly one billion dollars will be spent on betting for the World Cup from Thailand alone. That figure is staggering considering the fact that any form of land or internet betting technically carries a one year prison sentence and fines in Thailand. The fact is though, although Thai officials have begun to launch aggressive police campaigns against the land and online casino betting sites the government is only catching a small number of the bettors. Raids and arrests related to land and online casino betting on the Euro 2008 games yielded a mere 1,000 arrests and very little actual cash. That means that a huge portion of the betting is still occurring and is just outside of the government’s current radar and scope.

The Thai officials are finding, like the US, Australia, China, and other nations, that blocking the online casinos and internet betting is actually a really hard task right now. Several of these other countries have begun to see regulation and licensing of the market as the best form of control, but Thailand is not yet at that place, the government continues to ban and ineffectively block.