Self exclusion from UK casino's
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:07 pm
I have been informed that in order to apply a self ban, each individual casino must be visited personally so that a photo can be taken and the self ban can be activated.
It seems wrong to me that each casino must be visited rather than just one casino in each of the chains. All casinos I have frequented promote controlled gambling and have an abundance of paraphernalia proclaiming such. If casinos really want to appear to help people stay in control, how can they make people who wish to take the rather extreme step of self exclusion, visit each and every casino in order to be banned.
If someone brings an abundance of pound coins to a casino they can be barred for life under the suspicion of money laundering (I have known this happen for as little as £1200). With this ban, they are not only excluded from the casino where the alleged offence took place, but also disallowed entry to other casinos in the chain. One would imagine that if a more serious transgression took place, the information may even be passed to other casino chains.
If it is possible to pass information so freely between venues, then why can the seemingly caring casinos make an individual go to such lengths to exclude themselves.
Excluding oneself from casinos in the local vicinity is not difficult. However, when an individual is in a certain state of mind and feels the burning desire to gamble, they will simply drive to the nearest casino they are not barred from.
Perhaps I have misunderstood and there is a simple way to self exclude from all UK casinos, I would be interested to know if this is the case. At the moment it seems that the quickest, maybe most profitable, and certainly most fun way, would be to get barred on purpose, but this may cause other repercussions and would possibly carry a life time ban. Does anyone have any thoughts on this and has anyone here actually self excluded successfully from all UK casinos.
It seems wrong to me that each casino must be visited rather than just one casino in each of the chains. All casinos I have frequented promote controlled gambling and have an abundance of paraphernalia proclaiming such. If casinos really want to appear to help people stay in control, how can they make people who wish to take the rather extreme step of self exclusion, visit each and every casino in order to be banned.
If someone brings an abundance of pound coins to a casino they can be barred for life under the suspicion of money laundering (I have known this happen for as little as £1200). With this ban, they are not only excluded from the casino where the alleged offence took place, but also disallowed entry to other casinos in the chain. One would imagine that if a more serious transgression took place, the information may even be passed to other casino chains.
If it is possible to pass information so freely between venues, then why can the seemingly caring casinos make an individual go to such lengths to exclude themselves.
Excluding oneself from casinos in the local vicinity is not difficult. However, when an individual is in a certain state of mind and feels the burning desire to gamble, they will simply drive to the nearest casino they are not barred from.
Perhaps I have misunderstood and there is a simple way to self exclude from all UK casinos, I would be interested to know if this is the case. At the moment it seems that the quickest, maybe most profitable, and certainly most fun way, would be to get barred on purpose, but this may cause other repercussions and would possibly carry a life time ban. Does anyone have any thoughts on this and has anyone here actually self excluded successfully from all UK casinos.