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Title: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: gatso on June 17, 2008, 05:28:29 PM
why do uk b & m casinos not run sportsbooks?

are they not allowed?


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: AndrewT on June 17, 2008, 05:44:29 PM
They do.

Grosvenor and Blue Square are the same company, as are Gala and Coral. Ladbrokes have a casino in Paddington.


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: AndrewT on June 17, 2008, 05:45:31 PM
Unless you mean 'why don't they have a bookies next to the roulette wheel', in which case I don't know.


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: gatso on June 17, 2008, 05:46:29 PM
Unless you mean 'why don't they have a bookies next to the roulette wheel', in which case I don't know.

that's what I meant


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: DaveShoelace on June 17, 2008, 05:52:25 PM
There must be a reason, because it makes perfect sense. They have sport on all the time in casinos


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: TightEnd on June 17, 2008, 05:53:50 PM
There must be a reason, because it makes perfect sense. They have sport on all the time in casinos


must be a regulatory reason, surely?


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: AndrewT on June 17, 2008, 05:59:05 PM
There must be a reason, because it makes perfect sense. They have sport on all the time in casinos


must be a regulatory reason, surely?

Maybe you can't have a bookmaking licence and a casino licence for the same premises - hard and soft gambling kept apart.


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: gatso on June 17, 2008, 06:05:29 PM
There must be a reason, because it makes perfect sense. They have sport on all the time in casinos


must be a regulatory reason, surely?

Maybe you can't have a bookmaking licence and a casino licence for the same premises - hard and soft gambling kept apart.

but you can have roulette in a bookies


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: TightEnd on June 17, 2008, 06:11:33 PM
only mechanised non RNG roulette though, not Bricks and Mortar croupier roulette


Title: Re: casinos and sportsbooks
Post by: phatomch on June 17, 2008, 06:18:43 PM
not allowed at the moment, but there are plans in the new regional casino's and the super casino ( if ever built) but grosvenor has a blue square bookie next to the vic