Key Takeaways
- Bluff Magazine’s Steve Ruddock provides a keen look at the economic differences between regulated and unregulated online gambling.
- Steven Stradbrooke discovered a study that compares the attractiveness of people used marketing campaigns with the amount of financial risk the consumers of that advertising will be willing to take.
- The Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas had an opinion piece published in Roll Call this week.
Regulated Online Gambling Keeps Money in the Local Economy
Bluff Magazine’s Steve Ruddock provides a keen look at the economic differences between regulated and unregulated online gambling. Though framed around the possible regulation of online poker in the state of Pennsylvania, Ruddock’s points hold true on a wider scale and form the basis for the push of regulation in jurisdictions all over the world.
While it is often argued that regulation provides much-needed consumer protections, the economic impact that licensing and regulating online poker has on the jurisdictions that embrace it, while at the same time understanding that overtaxing and ring-fencing online poker is detrimental to its overall success, is crucial to its expansion worldwide.
