Thursday, 13 October 2011

AO1 DCMS - Gambling regulation

The Gambling Act 2005 regulates commercial gambling in Great Britain, including arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, gaming machines, society lotteries and remote gambling operations based in the UK. It has three principle objectives:
  • keeping gambling crime free
  • making sure that gambling is fair and open
  • protecting children and vulnerable adults
Gambling must remains fair and regulated because you would have a high level of betting scandal and the betting industry will collapse.

An example of some one who have broken a gambling  law would be Chicago White Sox faced the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. This series would go down as one of the biggest sports scandals of all time. As the story goes, professional gambler Joseph Sullivan paid eight members of the White Sox around 10,000 dollars each to fix the World Series. The players involved were Oscar Felsch, Arnold Gandil, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Charles Risberg, George Weaver, and Claude Williams. All of these players have been banned for life this was in 1919.



 

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