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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Why the Reluctance?
by
panganib999
on 25/04/2024, 21:05:18 UTC
Sports betting is not illegal in my country. According to some key gambling and betting statistics1,2:
  • There are over 60 million active gamblers.
  • $2 billion is spent on gambling everyday
  • 53% of people in my country bet at least once per day. Our population is around 200 million people.
  • There are 14 million bet stakes and payments that are made over the internet every day
  • and others
We are actually a gambling nation and the market is highly profitable. I wonder why despite these statistics, yet some sport betting and casino sites haven't taken advantage of it. As I conducted my research, I noticed that some casinos don't offer or no longer offers their services to people in my country. There are other countries with similar situation too. And it begs the question: why the reluctance? Such hesitation seems out of place in a country where gambling is legal.


1 https://www.betensured.com/blog/top-10-nigeria-gambling-statistics/
2 https://www.noi-polls.com/post/gambling-and-betting-poll-2019
Perhaps you're seeing this as a business opportunity and not as a problem that perhaps your government is actively working to thwart and solve. Remember that gambling as a business, even if government-sanctioned only benefits one party, and most often than not they would make sure to keep that disparity in the name of profit.

The fact alone that more than half of your country's population's gambling's a little alarming to me. You're literally talking about a good amount of people gambling their whole paychecks away and with little to no gains from it too. Like it would've made sense if the games they play the most are on the side of those that are easier to win but as it stands I'm looking at people that are just too addicted to quit.