For me I Think online gambling is more safe than real life gambling, especially if in your country gambling is illegal, because if you are gambling in real and you get caught by police, jail is waiting for you.
How can you say that online gambling is more than safer than real life gambling? In my country real gambling here in really legal because they have paper to run there business. In online gambling you do not know if you win the big jackpot and they manipulate it or change the rules term and condition then you wil not get what you've won.
In your country gambling is legal means then no issue you can play you will not get any issue in online or real gambling. Because you are just a player not an owner of the casino. If the gambling is legal in the country, then I think for players there is no restrictions are there, But yes the feeling and rules and conditions are different in both real and online gambling.
yeah some country allow online gambling as long as registered under certain institution, but prohibit and consider as illegal action if they gamble in the real casino . means everyone could gamble freely online , but not with real gambling. it seems not fair but you can't do anything as it's government policy , you have to obey on it.
If government will ban online gambling then you should really obey it because if they caught you you will end up jail but there are really ways to play online and its much possible to be accessible online rather than on playing gambling offline. VPN are still there which you could able to play gambling online without being caught by authorities but in offline gambling its not possible.
hard to track you down do online gambling actually , they prohibit online gambling by block the gambling sites , you can still use vpn to access it but then when you want to make a withdrawal to your bank account there might an inspection must be done especially if your withdrawal amount so fat. and again bitcoin come to save your ass from those annoying regulation, bitcoin really embodiments of a freedom.
if the website is located outside of that country that is the only case where it is hard to crack down on them but when they are located on servers within the country the government can easily go to them and ask for taxes. and that is all this is about "Taxes" if they can take it, gambling would be legal and if not gambling would be illegal.
i believe it was Philippians that banned only "online" gambling because the president said we can not tax it!