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But now, he is known as a "beggar" among his friends, after losing most of his fortune due to a gambling addiction spanning over 20 years, including at jackpot machines.

Jackpot machines and the gamblers they attract have been in the spotlight of late, after media reports earlier this year showed how some S-League football clubs were relying on these machines for much of their revenue.

On July 20, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced a slew of measures - after a review initiated last year - to tackle problem gamblers like Jerome who punt heavily at jackpot machines.

From next May, gambling addicts like Jerome can bar themselves from jackpot rooms at all clubs here, which will be required to offer self-exclusion. Now, only 25 of about 82 clubs operating jackpot machines here have taken up the self-exclusion scheme, with around 1, self-exclusions as of May.

Jerome has plans to exclude himself from all jackpot machine rooms, and stop other forms of gambling such as betting on 4D. Looking back, Jerome wishes he had sought help sooner for his gambling addiction that was fuelled by the big bucks he earned as a tour guide catering to Japanese tourists. After completing the tours around 3pm daily, tour guides would take a three-hour break before starting work again at 6pm.

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Pros and cons of banning online gambling

But during a heated debate over the existing online gambling laws, not only in the U. Well, let's take a look:. Pros of legal online gambling: Legalizing Internet gambling has its positive sides for all parties involved - gamblers, gambling websites and government. To being with the most important piece of the puzzle - the gamblers. Security is arguably the most important feature of legal online gambling - how many times have you gambled online at a casino or a sportsbook and win, only to find out that there will be no check coming your way?

Yes, crooked online casinos and sportsbooks will continue to exist, even if Internet gambling is legalized, but the customer will have a wide array of licensed gambling websites to choose from, hence curbing fraud to almost zero. People want to gamble, they want to win and they want to get their winnings. A legal licensed gambling website would guarantee this. Hand in hand with security comes honesty - no one wants to play at a dishonest casino or sportsbook.

A licensed one is a good start in that direction although it will hardly be a given. And of course, legality itself. The poor online gamblers in the state of Washington are currently felons for playing a few hands of poker on the Internet.

I just cannot imagine the Washington anti-online gambling law staying on the books with legal online poker websites. Then again, with the current political scene in the state , anything is possible. The gambling websites also stand a good deal to gain from legal online gambling. Legalizing your online gambling business, whether it is a sportsbook, casino, poker room or payment processor would lift the burden of looking over your shoulder for the Feds. Advertising your website in a legalized Internet gambling atmosphere would also be easier tenfold.

You want to travel to the U. No problem, as long as you pay your taxes. Which leads us to the third group of legal online gambling beneficiaries - the government. Estimates have always flown around that online gambling generates over 10 billion in revenue yearly, can you imagine the cut the U. True, resources must be set aside to oversee the industry and the laws, but let's just say the remainder will hardly be a chump change.

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