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[return to "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"]
1. lgdskh+IM3[view] [source] 2024-09-27 18:28:56
>>jimbob+(OP)
As someone who worked for a major sports betting company, these are the things we built but only used if required by the country/state/tribe/whatever:

* Deposit limits, per day/week/etc to limit the damage someone could do and also to limit money laundering. This could be self imposed or regulator imposed.

* Withdrawal limits. This was mostly to limit money laundering.

* Wager limits, per event/day/etc

* Self exclusion for a certain time period or forever. This kept people from using our stuff to make bets based on our best efforts to identify them. Sometimes we had a government ID, sometimes we didn't.

* Other exclusions, i.e. blacklisting for things like not paying child support.

* Geofencing to prevent people from using our app outside of the legal jurisdictions. Also, geofencing to only allow people to register for our apps in certain locations, such as a casino. That could easily be extended to prevent people from using the apps outside of a casino, but I don't think that was required anywhere.

These things are technically possible and would greatly help if required globally, short of an outright ban.

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2. matthe+5T3[view] [source] 2024-09-27 19:07:28
>>lgdskh+IM3
I also work in industry. I think a national self-exclusion scheme (like the UK has) would be huge.
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