As a libertarian, there's only one thing I would ban.....

[keggyhander]

Online and TV Gambling.

It's no benefit to man nor beast.

Young lads getting into debt because Poker is "cool" and "hard". And shit.

It's rubbish telly.

BCF, I put it to you......

[Vracktal]

Ditto. I'd ban "the crack cocaine of gambling", fixed-odds betting terminals in betting shops as well, since seeing the BBC report about how addictive they were.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/05/gambling-machines-double-number-addicts

[TheSmiler]

You lost a big bet or something keggy I know a person that makes enough of gambling to mean he doesn't need a job.

However that is sport betting (football).
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[yen_powell]

I thought you were going to say, 'people failing to return books on time', but then I realised you had typed libertarian.
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[LordShaftesbu...]

Me too; I'd also ban tobacco because that's addictive as well, oh and alcohol, and Starcraft, cos someone died playing that once you know.

[Mushroom]

Id ban moaning ~ shut the fuck up cunt.

[Rogerborg]

[keggyhander]

[Tungtvann]

I once won 50 quid on online blackjack. Took my winnings and never played again.

[Alpha-9]

Who gets into debt with gambling, honestly

+1 to mad_mushroom
Gambling is fun, deal with it


Unlike most things you cna actually come out with more money than you went in with, but drinking yourself to death in a pub is acceptable?
Nah i'd take a night out in a casino, go in with £20, either lose it and have had a night out with free tea and pepsi all night, or actually make money

It's a win-win, long as you're not an idiot
I'LL SELL MY LIVER SO I CAN PLACE THIS BET!!1

doesnt work like that, it's gambling
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[nowhere.elysium]

Bollocks to it: I'd just ban people. Seems easier and tidier in the long run.
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[keggyhander]

[Alpha-9]

[Rogerborg]

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I worked with a chap who told us that he had to take a week off to look after his sick wife.

Since he was a bit of a geezer, his name was Googled and turned up news pictures of him grinning like a loon at a poker tournament in France. Said evidence made its way to management.

He was told not to bother coming in again, and could whistle for his notice money.

On his way back, he got caught speeding and lost his license.

And he took it out on his "sick" wife, and got sent to Barlinnie for a few months to cool off.

Oh... and he lost big time. It turns out that he's the proverbial player who can never spot the sucker at the table.

There was a silver lining though: I looted an awesome pair of headphones from his desk.
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[Knightsy]

[daemonoid]

I worked in the gambling industry for 7-8 years. I made casino slot machines primarily for vegas, but also other markets.

The gambling laws in the UK are really odd. Our machines could go into UK casinos, but the casino could only have 8 of them. The machines had a max stake of £2 per spin and max prizes of £4000. It seemed ridiculous that someone who'd signed up to become a member of a casino and made a trip out could not stake more than £2. Yet... someone on their lunch break could go stake £100 per spin on a FOBTie roulette game from the high street or virtually as much as they liked using their smartphone.

The super casinos that were to be created were another example of the same attitude - can't build a casino that would revive an area like Blackpool and provide hundreds of jobs, but you can build one online that serves far more people, far more easily with far less in the way of controls.

The problem with banning online though is simply that other countries won't and it's fairly easy to get round country restrictions (I do it all the time to watch iPlayer). If you're never going to be able to stop people, you may as well take a cut of it...
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[keggyhander]

[Mushroom]

[Rogerborg]

[Slacker24seve...]

I'm playing poker right now. I generally play once or twice a week in winter and not at all during the summer. Over the last two and a half years I'm probably around £2000 up. Thats hardly anything special but its a bit of fun to me - if I make some extra money thats a bonus

Just FYI I'm currently 296th out of 14483 entrants with a prize pool of over £81k. For a buy in of $1.10 its easy to see how people get hooked and if fact, if there is a problem, its tournaments like the one I'm in now. I've been on this table for the last couple of hours and its one where you can rebuy - at least three of my 9 fellow players have been sat there, pushing all in, getting wiped out and starting over. Thats a mugs game
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[Polarbear]

I do find it quite amazing how many of these online casinos have popped up. Presuming most of the players didn't go down the bookies or whatever before they arrived, that's an awful lot of new players.

I've played blackjack in a casino many times. I get so many chips and that's it, once they are gone they are gone (oh and the booze is free where I play )

I wouldn't like to play on line where it (i presume) just dips into your account as it needs to without you having to do anything.
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[Slacker24seve...]

[Derivative]

I'm happy with my profit from matched betting. Haven't touched a site for a fair bit over a year though, exhausted all of the decent offers.

Getting into debt over online gambling? Eh, I'd rather that than some of the reasons people get into debt. At least it's entrepreneurial.

[Im-a-Ridah]

I don't gamble, it makes no real sense and is a waste of time. Still, it's their money, and they can do what they like with it I guess

[scorps]

Im sure having an adictive personality is part of the problem, so if this is the case then these people would just find another addiction to take its place. or not as Im only speculating
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