Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Remember the story we told you last week about the wagering services provider Betmakers recording a $26.4 million loss in the last financial year? That made the company’s total losses over the past 5 years a staggering $210 million. So did Betmakers sack the whole board for presiding over such a diabolical fiscal mess? No. […]
This video was sent to us by a Lightning Bet customer. It is a recording of him trying to have $5 bets on a race at Grafton. He does it one by one and works his way through the field. On every bet bar one they wind the price in on him. The one that […]
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 […]
Archie The biggest thing is below with bookies who hold multiple licenses- – A person who self-excludes or takes a break from one brand can simply open a new account with another brand. – If they hit a deposit limit on one brand, they can bypass it by depositing fresh limits on another. – If […]
I am old enough to remember when the Call of the Card night before Melbourne Cup day was a huge event jam packed with wall to wall punters and bookies, including all the biggest names in the game. How times have changed. This year only four bookies are fielding at the Call of the Card, […]
A punter has sent their concerns below about bookmakers operating multiple licenses to the NT regulator and to AUSTRAC. It will be interesting to see the reply they receive. ———————————————— Dear Minister Boothby and AUSTRAC Compliance Team, I am writing to formally request that you initiate an independent inquiry into the current wagering regulatory framework […]
By Steve Cannane of ABC Investigations, Mayeta Clark and Rory Callinan Aimee and Nick Mazza lost a quarter of a million dollars to online bookmakers without placing a single bet. Two years ago, the Mildura couple were approached by Anthony Del Vecchio, a financial adviser with Freedom Finance in Melbourne, who offered them an investment opportunity through high-interest term deposits. […]
2 April 2024 The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) has fined Victorian registered bookmaker MintBet $100,000 for repeated breaches of its Responsible Gambling Code of Conduct (Code) in relation to extended periods of gambling by a customer. The customer gambled through their online account with MintBet for 35-hours in a period of approximately […]
Do you remember we warned you a while back about the corporate bookie ZBet, and how they were supposed to have been not paying winning punters their dough? Well the bookie has gone now and the company has folded. ZBet and the other two names it’s known by, Zoo Entertainment and Razoo Ent. They are […]
Betmakers is a company that you would think would make money but it never does, this year recording yet another loss of $26.4 million to add to the $38.7 million it lost last year, and the $38.8 million it lost the year before that, and the $89.2 million the year before that, and the $17.5 […]
