Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See the advertisements above and below that popped up on my Facebook feed today? These ads are illegal in every State of Australia. Offenders can be prosecuted. They should be too, for these are absolutely deliberate breaches of the law. Note that neither advertisement offering the inducements for punter to open an account has a […]
Now we don’t at all agree with most of David Pocock’s virulently anti-gambling stance, but in the case he is talking about in the video below we absolutely do. A punter with a gambling problem self-excludes from Ultra Bet. So what does Ultra Bet do? They send him an email urging him to come back […]
Luke Anderson was a stable hand aged in his early 20’s. He’d been one since he was 17. Working in and around racing probably wasn’t the wisest choice of career for the bloke. You see Anderson was a gambling addict. A pulsie (as in compulsive gambler); a punt junkie; a desperate; a broker. He used […]
We first met the corporate bookmaker Baggybet (real name Mailbag Wagering Pty Ltd) back in October last year when we wrote about how the company then owned by tips spruiker Jack Dickens and the Chairman of the Australian and Victorian Bookmakers Associations Chris Lester was fined $82 620 by the NT Gaming Commission for breaches […]
The words you see above are those of Pointsbet CEO Sam Swanell in an story published yesterday on the straight.com.au about the business strategy of the company. His comments are an interesting insight into what appears to be going on inside the Australian bookmaking market, and an example of it in action. Swannel reveals that […]
BetStop is the recently established national self-exclusion register for compulsive gamblers launched by the Federal Government with much fanfare. It’s purpose is to provide a one stop shop for people with gambling problems to self-exclude themselves from betting or holding accounts with all bookmakers in Australia, and it was introduced to prevent unscrupulous bookies from […]
