Regulator found bookmaker prioritised profit over man’s wellbeing by supplying him with bonus bets after he ran out of money to gamble
Regulator found bookmaker prioritised profit over man’s wellbeing by supplying him with bonus bets after he ran out of money to gamble
Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates
Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
A man who “binge gambled” $40,000 in an 11-hour session was awarded VIP status by the bookmaker BlueBet and assigned a dedicated personal manager who encouraged him to keep betting and took a cut of his losses.
A regulator has found it wasn’t until the man had gambled $700,000 four months later and displayed multiple “clear red flag behaviours” that BlueBet checked whether he could afford to be betting so much.
Continue reading...Source: Guardian - World News
