Sports Gambling

Sports Betting

A complete and very interesting article published today in soutien: What's at stake in sports betting? explains how they will be the new bookmakers "British" that will be operational in the coming days in Spain. You can see an example on the website of Victoria, which is the first to have obtained legal authorization. The first physical betting shop is located in the central Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid.

The article explains quite well how it will work the case and the complex legal situation in which such businesses are both those who have physical preseencia MundoReal ™ as the Internet, whose existence can be considered legal or illegal according alegal issues even geographic type: for example, now that Madrid and the Basque country have legislation in place, the article said that there would be illegal without a license, but the concept "there" in cyberspace is a little ... fuzzy.

The article seemed very good for all the explanations and completely: it also includes the views of the main (and usually forgotten) affected: the gamblers. Provides testimony and data from the Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated gamblers (FEJAR) that are a little creepy about this condition:

     Pathological gambling is a disease recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) (...) According to the association, 5% of the Spanish population are pathological gamblers. This leaves almost 20% of the population "affected by gambling.

From the association say they are not against this new business, but attempting to do a bit more effort on prevention of pathological gambling, as is done with other addictions. One proposal is to ensure that there is an annual campaign to prevent gambling paid for with part of the money generated by the game.