Recent content by x@nter

website gets regulated because you can regulate a website so he's got a point after all

the bit that should bother kiwis more is the cross-sell. entain already have the only legal sports betting in the country through a 25 year deal with TAB. their CEO has said straight out they'd be the only operator able to cross-sell across products. so if they land their three casino licences...

while australia's version of that went through in august, banks being allowed to block payments to operators on a list. still it didn't get a fraction of this attention because it was framed as anti-illegal-operator rather than anti-gambling. same plumbing though

honestly that's the thing from outside. betfair's done this since 2000 and nobody needed a circuit split to work out what it was the difference is it got licensed as gambling from the start instead of arguing it was a commodity

@PokiesJunkie your point stands tho. 22 machines in one pub and we spent three years on the telly

january's the thing to watch. everyone's arguing about what the words mean and none of it bites for four months

five, not six. they moved it down in the amendments and no, broadcasters promoting odds is out. thats separate from the ad cap

well i thought it wouldn't go through *clean*

passed wednesday. albo and taylor stitched a deal on the monday night and it was through both houses by wednesday, after three years of it going nowhere what's in it - no ads during live sport, and they widened that to 15 min before and 5 after. nothing in venues, nothing on jerseys, no athletes...

@Taekim they shift. thats what the whole 2025 migration was, operators looking at the LOK and deciding it wasn't worth it. this produces a second wave of the same between now and mid 2027 which means the practical outcome of curacao tightening up is that the sites least able to meet compliance...

hold up before everyone panics. this applies to CGA licensed operators. a lot of the sites people here use arent curacao anymore. anjouan picked up a big chunk of the operators who didnt fancy the LOK process, costa rica still exists, some went malta. so step one for anyone worried is actually...

@nataly.k the 91st min flips is what makes football betting uniquely horrible. you've survived 90 minutes, you're counting down, and then someone scores. there's no equivalent in any other sport. cricket has collapses but at least they take time

australia going out to USA 2-0 in the group stage was depressing to watch. had a unit on them at +1400 before the tournament thinking ancelotti's influence on brazil meant south american opposition might be slightly more accessible this year. wrong spain 0-0 cape verde thing was the early shock...

wait does winz actually accept aussie players tho? thought they had geo-blocking

hold up there cowboy playing at good curacao casinos and having no issues isn't same as curacao providing actual protection. difference between getting lucky with honest operator vs having regulator that enforces rules. i've used plenty curacao sites too but doesn't mean id trust the license to...