Fixed Odds Betting Terminals

The Campaign for Fairer Gambling’s latest insight on the debate around fixed odds betting terminals and whether new regulations are now required. (more…)

With a crackdown on fixed-odds betting terminals on the way, reporter Jamie Doward spent the day at the bookies and discovered the true extent of the problem.

Read the full piece in The Guardian.

People across South Lanarkshire lost £13million in betting machines known as the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ in just one year.

Figures, released by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, show the cash was spent at fixed odds betting terminals in the county in the 2015/16 financial year.

Read the full story in The Daily Record.

Alex Neil is calling for action to tackle “toxic” fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) after new figures showed North Lanarkshire gamblers have lost nearly £90 million on the machines in the past eight years – including more than £13m in 2015-2016 alone.

Read the full story in The Daily Record.

If you fancy a flutter on the betting machine at your local bookies then you might not be able to gamble more than £2.

Those who like a flutter on machines in bookies up and down the country can currently stake as much as £100 a time, every 20 seconds. But a limit could soon be applied after the Chancellor Phillip Hammond dropped his opposition to the plans to reduce the betting amount to £2.

Read the full story in The Sun.

Derek Webb of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling explains the changing dynamics of the FOBT and gambling media debate. (more…)

Fixed-odds betting terminals – described as the “crack cocaine of gambling” – will be subject to new curbs after Philip Hammond dropped his opposition to limiting their maximum stake, The Times can reveal.

The issue has caused divisions in Whitehall, with the Treasury resisting proposals by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) to cut the maximum stake because they would cost £400 million a year in lost tax revenues.

Read the full story in The Times.

Ministers are poised to bring in new curbs on gaming machines after the Treasury dropped its objections to a crackdown.

The Government is looking at limiting the stakes on fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) – dubbed the crack cocaine of gambling.

Read the full story in The Daily Mirror.

Punters in the area lost £3.75million last year after more than £14million was put into the fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs). Now MSP Clare Adamson is demanding action over the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ with many gamblers addicted to the machines, which raked in £78.2million.

Read the full story in The Daily Record.

The government has signalled that it is preparing to clamp down on fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) – the gambling machines described as the “crack cocaine” of the betting world. But the extent to which the machines will be controlled is dividing the Treasury and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Read the full story in The Guardian.