Recently the Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder, (GGL) which is the gambling authority responsible for all regions in Germany, registered a victory at the VG München. The authority had initiated prohibition proceedings against what in its opinion was illegal gambling content streamed on the internet page of a German TV station. Now the court ruled in favour of the authority and ordered the TV station to remove the illegal games of chance from its website. But which type of gambling was this?
The problem of illegal games of chance is a constant problem for the regions. Three years ago, the police commissioner in Gießen had had enough. The fight against these services was drastically intensified. The special organisational structure “Spektrum” was created. The successes heaped up – and now the model will be adopted for the whole region of Hessen. The municipalities are really pleased.
The wage does not seem to be enough for a cashier from the US Federal State of Colorado. The casino employee seems to have taken the record-breaking sum of 500,000 US-Dollar from the casino’s own safe. Meanwhile the casino employee who turned out to be a thief is sitting behind bars. How could the employee manage to steal such an impressive sum?
Central Germany has currently a massive shortage of counselling centres, addiction counsellors and therapy units for problematic gamblers. Despite the increase in legalisation and liberalisation of online gambling, in the past years there has been decreased spending for these types of services. This was reported by the MDR. There is stagnation in several places – there are hardly any real solution approaches.
Ralf K. was not only a successful building contractor. In his free time, he was also a passionate football trainer. In mid-March however he had to appear in a Berlin court as he was accused of fraud and falsification of documents. His gambling addiction had led to the criminal acts.
The 888 Germany Ltd. Has received another German games of chance licence for online slots. This time the licence was issued for the internet site “mrgreen.de”. This means that the well-known gambling provider is finally back on the German online gambling market. How attractive is Mr Green as a German online casino and can one already register here?
What do most people think of when Las Vegas comes up? Right: casinos, slot machines, shows and a lot of wild parties. According to the city officials, this should very soon be history. They want to move away from the image of a sin city or at least relativise it. Sports and breath taking sports events should become the new sign for the gambling metropole.
In our daily life nowadays, we encounter online casinos and sports betting in many places. Online we are overwhelmed with advertisements for related services. Besides this the latest bonuses of the large web casinos flicker on the TV screens all evening. All kinds of stars are promoting betting providers on the internet. Games of chance are omnipresent and are always only a few clicks away. Now researchers have come to the conclusion that an increasing normalisation is taking place. This brings some dangers with it.
Lotto is the most popular form of games of chance in the world. Many people around the world do their marks regularly and thus it is no wonder that in lotto there are very curious occurrences. In a recent case a US American cleared the large jackpot because he made a critical mistake which he really regretted.
The gambling authority which oversees all regions in Germany does not only rake criticism but also deals out criticism. During a symposium on games of chance organised by the Universität Hohenheim, the authority informed the public among other things about the status of the licensing procedures and also about the issue of illegal games of chance. The chairman did not mince his words and especially criticised the unreliability of some providers.
It is such a shame: no other gambling provider which holds a British licence had ever had to put up with such a high fine as the one which was imposed quite recently on the bookmaker William Hill. The latter has been slapped with a fine of 19.2 million pounds because of non-compliance issues – to be more precise – non-compliance with the player protection and anti-money laundering regulations. When converted this fine comes up to around 21.83 million Euro!
There are around 30 online providers in Germany which hold a licence to provide virtual slot machines. It is striking that the land-based casinos have till now been holding back from the internet. On the other hand, the situation in Switzerland seems to be the opposite. Many casinos here hold an “extension to their concession for online games of chance”. Can this be a model for Germany?
After the successful streaming platform Twitch exacerbated its regulations for gambling streams, many more casino streamers are switching to the competitor platform Kick. In fact at Kick, they are bragging about having higher viewer numbers. The Berlin Influencer “Tanzverbot” is now openly suggesting that the viewer numbers could have been partly fabricated. But why is the gambling critic claiming this?
In Bavaria there are nine casinos in all. The most successful Bavarian casino is situated in Bad Wiessee, directly near Lake Tegern near Munich. Last year, 33.5 million Euro were gambled away just in this casino. The population living in the area tends to be quite wealthy so that explains the high sales in the casino near Lake Tegern.
Callie Rogers’ life was not easy. When she was 16, she had worked as a salesgirl earning 5 Euro an hour. A lotto ticket and her winning (when converted) 2.5 million Euro changed everything. Money in abundance, designer clothes, parties, drugs, depressions, three breast enlargements and then everything was suddenly gone. Meanwhile she is 35 years old and is back at school.
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