The Austrian gambling group Novomatic has published its yearly financial report for 2022. According to the report, Novomatic AG has generated a turnover of 2.86 billion Euro – a surplus of more than 55% when compared to the previous year. All in all, there was a positive yearly annual profit of more than 214 million Euro. The gambling concern, which is steeped in tradition, has reason to be happy.
Most of the spa towns in Germany have their own casino. Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, Bad Wiessee and Bad Ems are among the most popular spa towns. Why is there such a strong connection between such relaxation cities, i.e. spa towns and gambling services? To be able to answer this question we must go back a while.
Without doubt, Brazil is one of the largest football nations. When it comes to football passion, many Germans think first and foremost about the South American country. On the other hand, Brazil unfortunately is one of the states which is well-known for its high criminality and corruption rate. These negative factors are also shown in football. Game manipulation and betting fraud are nearly the order of the day.
ChatGPT is a prototype of a chatbot which was released in 2022. Users can use the query form to ask the system questions about all possible topics. These will then be answered. In the past months media from all over the world have reported about this artificial intelligence. But can ChatGPT be of help in the online casino in the future?
Last Thursday, the 20th. April, several civil servants from different authorities took part in a raid on the well-known sports betting provider tipster. Investigations were also carried out in foreign countries. According to the press conference of the Landeskriminalamt NRW, as well as reports of the different newspapers – among others the Bild, Spiegel and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger – there are several accusations.
Since the GlüStV 2021 came into force the advertisements measures for games of chance in Germany have increased. Celebrities, especially athletes are often used to promote gambling. Even on international level, gambling providers prefer to use personalities from the sports industry in their advertising. Why is that so?
It is a daring thesis: In the long run could there be more “problem players” than in the past because of the liberalisation of online games of chance? According to the Federal Ministry of Health (BZgA) in Germany alone there are around 430,000 people affected by a problematic or pathological gambling behaviour. But how does the State Gambling Act which came into effect in 2021 affect the players’ behaviour?
It is not a rare thing that one mentions “coalition games of chance“, “betting for the last vote“ or “the fall of the dice“ in the context of elections and election campaigns. These are mostly all cliches of politicians and the press. A small village in the US American Federal State of Wisconsin has however made used of these phrases in practice. The election of the next village president was decided on by a dice!
A health tax can soon be introduced for games of chance providers in Great Britain. The income from the new tax should be used to finance the gambling related treatments in public health. Is the planned health tax fair for British gambling providers and could this be a model for Germany?
The British professional darts player, Michael Smith, is continuing to enjoy his success. He had won the PDC championships at the beginning of the year and thus he is the reigning darts champion 2023. Now he is enjoying some free time in the gambling metropole Las Vegas. He has now posted a photo of his impressive casino win on Twitter.
Recently the Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder, (GGL) which is the gambling authority responsible for all regions in Germany, registered a victory at the VG München. The authority had initiated prohibition proceedings against what in its opinion was illegal gambling content streamed on the internet page of a German TV station. Now the court ruled in favour of the authority and ordered the TV station to remove the illegal games of chance from its website. But which type of gambling was this?
The problem of illegal games of chance is a constant problem for the regions. Three years ago, the police commissioner in Gießen had had enough. The fight against these services was drastically intensified. The special organisational structure “Spektrum” was created. The successes heaped up – and now the model will be adopted for the whole region of Hessen. The municipalities are really pleased.
The wage does not seem to be enough for a cashier from the US Federal State of Colorado. The casino employee seems to have taken the record-breaking sum of 500,000 US-Dollar from the casino’s own safe. Meanwhile the casino employee who turned out to be a thief is sitting behind bars. How could the employee manage to steal such an impressive sum?
Central Germany has currently a massive shortage of counselling centres, addiction counsellors and therapy units for problematic gamblers. Despite the increase in legalisation and liberalisation of online gambling, in the past years there has been decreased spending for these types of services. This was reported by the MDR. There is stagnation in several places – there are hardly any real solution approaches.
Ralf K. was not only a successful building contractor. In his free time, he was also a passionate football trainer. In mid-March however he had to appear in a Berlin court as he was accused of fraud and falsification of documents. His gambling addiction had led to the criminal acts.
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