I'd be interested to hear from full-timers or profitable traders that rarely or never deposit, yet have still been targeted by BF for documents or been imposed deposit limits?
I don't think you find many at all.
I'd wager that a lot people who have been limited probably don't want to share their lifetime account status.
It will be interesting to see the White Paper from the gambling review commission when it is published. My fear is that there wont be enough political voice given to punters and it will be dominated by the lobby of bookmakers on one side and the anti-gambling folks on the other. Hopefully some sense will prevail.
I really hope they dont lump all punters into the same box. Someone who like to have a few quid on a horse is not the same as someone who is spending 7 hours a days playing online slots. If the point is to stop problem gambling, then they should start with the likes of online casinos that are basically the crack cocaine of the gambling world. Firms have for year done their best to steer their customers towards these products, with huge consequences. I think they should legislate for it similar to the way they do with drugs, categories based on the harmful effects, A, B, C etc.
They should probably start with the lottery as that is where people get a taste for gambling. But gaming is the big, big, big problem. It's a one way street to loserville and you have no chance at all of overturning the odds.
It will be interesting to see the White Paper from the gambling review commission when it is published. My fear is that there wont be enough political voice given to punters and it will be dominated by the lobby of bookmakers on one side and the anti-gambling folks on the other. Hopefully some sense will prevail.
I really hope they dont lump all punters into the same box. Someone who like to have a few quid on a horse is not the same as someone who is spending 7 hours a days playing online slots. If the point is to stop problem gambling, then they should start with the likes of online casinos that are basically the crack cocaine of the gambling world. Firms have for year done their best to steer their customers towards these products, with huge consequences. I think they should legislate for it similar to the way they do with drugs, categories based on the harmful effects, A, B, C etc.
Even if sports trading was labelled category C gambling I still wouldn't like it.