Seems like an underground gambling den gone wrong?
No, it’s not, they used to operate legally until the old administration banned it because it became alarming. The e-sabong owner, Atong Ang, hates cheaters, so they made people pay by killing them, as testified by one of the whistleblowers who happens to be his right-hand man.
But I dont see how relevant this is to gambling. More of an organized crime.
It's very relevant to gambling because the killing revolves around gambling and how a gambling organization, for the sake of profit, disregards life. This is a growing concern. If you allow gambling to proliferate, the big organizations only want to make money and don’t care about lives.