I don`t tell that all gamblers are in these two points. But it is big enough part of common gamblers. If i can be arrested for 2-3 $10 bets, i prefer to exclude gambling from my life.
The same is about VPN. In my country government ban VPN(at least most famous of them), so i had to deploy my own VPN. And i don`t sure that lots of common gamblers would be ready to repeat it.
Of course part of gamblers would continue the game, but another part will stop.
Wow, VPN banned? That's not good. It's highly likely that the same thing will happen in my country, since the powers that be have no peace when people get information from alternative sources. Many sites and applications have been blocked, so you can't do without VPN. If they ban using it, it will be a complete disaster. I have no idea what to do in that case. I really don't want it to come to that, but apparently everything is moving in that direction by leaps and bounds. Every day there's some new prohibitive law. And it's been like this for several years now. The authorities have completely lost their minds.