As a gambler, what would you have felt about this?
I personally don't have any issues with this honestly because it doesn't affect me. Gambling ads are basically a way of promotion for the gambling industries. It doesn't in anyway affect the games I watch or the games I choose to bet on. If they feel that placing such ban was the best thing to do as far as preventing early childhood gambling and all that, then I think it is a good decision for them. But I doubt how gambling companies would react to such ban because it affects them in a way.
Especially if you were betting on the very same sporting match? Do you think that this was effective in reducing gambling rate in the country?
I don't think so. I use a particular betting platform, and I haven't come across any of their commercials or video ads while watching a game, but they are very popular. Of course, putting such restriction is going to limit what children see, but the social media is literally there for them to see the same thing. So I don't think it will have much effect.