Age restriction in gambling

[robelneo]

Knowing about the age restriction about gambling, and being applicable to online gambling as well. Is it really effective to limit the players? Because from my experience playing through different gambling sites, I don't see any that most of there are strict. They are just allowing you to create account and you can even fake your credentials to enter age above the limitation. There are some sites that don't really have anything to ask their players, and will allow you to directly play after your email has been verified. Yes, you have set your age in your email, but what if you exceed your age in your email as well?

That means, players of any age has really no restriction in gambling because of the weak regulation. Though, I don't like KYC to be a mandatory to every gambling sites. Maybe these sites could just improve or develop a system to detect if the players are really in legal age to play.

I could not think of any other way but KYC to verify if the one joining a gambling site is legit and of age, people want anonymity, and because the competition is very high in the online gambling sector they do away with KYC so, in reality, we'll never know if the one joining is of age and not a child who wants to gamble his allowance.

[yazher]

I could not think of any other way but KYC to verify if the one joining a gambling site is legit and of age, people want anonymity, and because the competition is very high in the online gambling sector they do away with KYC so, in reality, we'll never know if the one joining is of age and not a child who wants to gamble his allowance.

Yeah! they should also implement something like KYC to prevent some underage to play even though they did not even reach the age of puberty yet. The case here is, they might become addicted and do some crazy things with those addictions blindly. unlike those 18+ people, kids are more prone to some extreme because most of them don't know how the outside world works. most of them don't know how hard to earn those single buck they often lose in gambling.

[Ucy]

Yes. Don't blame the government of Malawi, they must have a strong reason to allow children in gambling. ~

I know the reason because the baby does not know the meaning of money.
See Malawi : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age#Africa

That is because the younger children (babies) do not know the meaning of money.

And Afganistan, they allowed every age who want to play online gambling, No limited.
See Afganistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age#Asia

Casinos and lottery are forbidden, BUT online gambling is legal at any age

Extreme country than Malawi I thing.

I doubt those legal age are really enforced that much in many countries. My first public gambling (prefer to call it betting) was at a very young age in a church compound (probably during something called bazaar or something) yet it was allowed back then. The games were appropriate for kids though and probably traditional.
Many of us likely bet as kids especially in our homes. I guess the problem is indulgence, which is gambling, if it doesn't benefit the kids positively. Kids spending lots of time (without spending money) on nonbeneficial games could be termed as gambling aswell.

[carlfebz2]

Knowing about the age restriction about gambling, and being applicable to online gambling as well. Is it really effective to limit the players? Because from my experience playing through different gambling sites, I don't see any that most of there are strict. They are just allowing you to create account and you can even fake your credentials to enter age above the limitation. There are some sites that don't really have anything to ask their players, and will allow you to directly play after your email has been verified. Yes, you have set your age in your email, but what if you exceed your age in your email as well?

That means, players of any age has really no restriction in gambling because of the weak regulation. Though, I don't like KYC to be a mandatory to every gambling sites. Maybe these sites could just improve or develop a system to detect if the players are really in legal age to play.

I could not think of any other way but KYC to verify if the one joining a gambling site is legit and of age, people want anonymity, and because the competition is very high in the online gambling sector they do away with KYC so, in reality, we'll never know if the one joining is of age and not a child who wants to gamble his allowance.

This is the reality thats why getting rid of minors on gambling sector cant really be wiped out totally due to anonymity and kyc-less for some gambling sites.
As long you do have the internet then accessing these sites are simple and cant be traced anytime.This is why when it comes to parenting then we should
really tell our kids at least the risk on playing gambling which they would able to foresee on what are the consequences when you do get involved at early age.
Its quite surprising that there are places on the globe that legalize on very low age.

[Becky666]

For age 5: Malawi (Casino)? This get me worried, how possible is it for a 5year old to gamble? Hmmm, this is ridiculous and should be revisited  by the country policy markers. This will definitely lead many of these country men and women who engage in gambling get into addiction. Starting to gamble at early stage in life will not give a good result to anyone involve in gamble, rather a bad effect at the end. Probably Malawi should have the highest cases of gambling addiction and possibly the most Highest country likely to have depressed individuals.

[ShowOff]

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Sounds like something silly but thats the reality because babies under 5 years are those who dont understand money and this is a statement we met from Wikipedia. But I am not sure how they allow a 5-year-old to go to the casino, maybe just to watch his father bet or start being taught to bet. This LOL cant be trusted and thus Malawi can be classified as a country that has a tendency to gamble by its citizens because the age limit allowed to go to the casino is 5 years.

[ololajulo]

The 5 year age looks unbelievable but I consider those kids that play chess and piano. It all depends on the children and how they are trained. Some go to the extent of designing a syllabus for the kids to learn the profession. Am usually scared of the addiction in gambling and the terrible havoc and extent of loss. Every gambler must have had there losses, some which is close to losing there lives, which demands training a gambler on how to know when to walk away.

[kawetsriyanto]

KYC is important for preventing the kids to join the gambling platforms with using the personal documents of their relatives,

I agree that KYC can be the solution to prevent underage children to join in gambling. However, it seems not all gambling sites to apply the KYC procedure. Moreover, if the gambling sites are fully anonymous and the anonymity is one of their advantages. We have no institution to force them to apply the KYC procedure for their members.

[romero121]

KYC is important for preventing the kids to join the gambling platforms with using the personal documents of their relatives,

I agree that KYC can be the solution to prevent underage children to join in gambling. However, it seems not all gambling sites to apply the KYC procedure. Moreover, if the gambling sites are fully anonymous and the anonymity is one of their advantages. We have no institution to force them to apply the KYC procedure for their members.

KYC can serve as the way to the underaged from gambling, but this isn't the possible solution. However we stricten the KYC procedure it is impossible to stop people from filling up with fake IDs to get into gambling. However things get advanced there will be gambling websites that give access to KYC free usage, and users to love it more than gambling sites where KYC is mandatory.

[michellee]

I am just thinking about even if the younger people can lie about their age, they can still register on the gambling site, and they can start playing gambling. With the easiness of the register in online gambling, the younger people can access and visit the gambling site, and if their access gets blocks by their internet provider, they can use VPN that will help them to visit and play gambling.

The parents should take care of their children, and they always watch and know what they do with their computer and mobile phone, so they can know if something wrong is happening. But with some explanation to their children, I think their children will see the danger of playing gambling.

[sweetbet]

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Is this for real? Surely it's a typo or a joke.

[aioc]

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Is this for real? Surely it's a typo or a joke.

Yes it's real it's not a joke and it's also not a typo error OP included the article where he extracts his post you can check it all here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age#cite_note-27 is really stated that Malawi is letting 5 years old to gamble, other countries do not have a restriction at all.

[kpllvd]

Have you known that there is an age restriction in gambling? But it is varied among the countries in the world. I have just checked in wikipedia that commonly someone can play gambling starting from the age of 15/16/18/19/20/21 years. It depends on where he lives, every country may have different regulation related to the age restriction. Below I classify some countries based on the age restriction:

Age 5: Malawi (Casino)

Age 15: Iceland (lottery)

Age 16: United Kingdom (Football pool, Scratchcards), Estonia (other), New Zealand (instant kiwi)

Age 18: Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand (horse racing), Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vanuatu, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, etc

Age 19: South Korea, Canada, USA

Age 20: New Zealand (Casino), Sweden (Casino), Japan, Nigeria

Age 21: Belgium, Estonia (Casino), Armenia, India, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines (casino), Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Namibia, Niger (casino), Bahamas, Saint Kitts and Nevis, US Virgin Islands (casino), USA, Macau

Age 23: Greece

Source & more detail information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_age#cite_note-27

is this serious?that Malawi is allowing their Children to Play in Casino as in?does the child has their own money to spend for?
the 15-16 from Iceland and UK is tolerable because as i remember i learn gambling at that age but 5?seems very unreasonable to allow to play in CASINO.

That was shocking I didn't know that there would be a place that would allow a 5 year old child to gamble.
I also agree that at teenage year it is tolerable since I think gambling would be one of our way to have fun and excitement.
I remember that I started to gamble at early age maybe around 12 because of basketball.
But to be able to gamble at casino at an early age I don't really think that it would be a good idea.

Well, At the age of 5 in Malawi they are allowed to gamble which may result to early addiction. If the country permits this, all we can do is to guide the young ones of what they are doing and what are the impacts of it. Each country has there own rules and regulations, legal age for gambling may vary place to place. Age Restrictions is a must on Gambling, with regards to young adults like 18 years old, they are not kids anymore they are now accepted and responsible or have control over their actions. This is the reality that we should know from the first place, anything is possible if one permits it.

[bittraffic]

How much possibility does it have for a 5 year old to get a job and spend his own money to gamble?  Zero. A 5 year old kid wouldn't even know how to shine a shoe.

To my curiosity, I searched youtube whether I can find 5 year old boy gambling in Malawi but I think youtube will also be deleting it if there is. Or its possible that its just the law says but people there in Malawi doesn't really allow their 5 yr old kids to gamble and I mean people in that area of course has common sense.

[MFahad]

Knowing about the age restriction about gambling, and being applicable to online gambling as well. Is it really effective to limit the players? Because from my experience playing through different gambling sites, I don't see any that most of there are strict. They are just allowing you to create account and you can even fake your credentials to enter age above the limitation. There are some sites that don't really have anything to ask their players, and will allow you to directly play after your email has been verified. Yes, you have set your age in your email, but what if you exceed your age in your email as well?

That means, players of any age has really no restriction in gambling because of the weak regulation. Though, I don't like KYC to be a mandatory to every gambling sites. Maybe these sites could just improve or develop a system to detect if the players are really in legal age to play.

I could not think of any other way but KYC to verify if the one joining a gambling site is legit and of age, people want anonymity, and because the competition is very high in the online gambling sector they do away with KYC so, in reality, we'll never know if the one joining is of age and not a child who wants to gamble his allowance.

Either you do or implement KYC and lose your customers / players (because many gamblers do not want themselves to be disclosed who they are) or Do not make KYC compulsory and allow the under-age play the gambling. It's a trade off and you have to choose between the two.

[virasog]

Knowing about the age restriction about gambling, and being applicable to online gambling as well. Is it really effective to limit the players? Because from my experience playing through different gambling sites, I don't see any that most of there are strict. They are just allowing you to create account and you can even fake your credentials to enter age above the limitation. There are some sites that don't really have anything to ask their players, and will allow you to directly play after your email has been verified. Yes, you have set your age in your email, but what if you exceed your age in your email as well?

That means, players of any age has really no restriction in gambling because of the weak regulation. Though, I don't like KYC to be a mandatory to every gambling sites. Maybe these sites could just improve or develop a system to detect if the players are really in legal age to play.

I could not think of any other way but KYC to verify if the one joining a gambling site is legit and of age, people want anonymity, and because the competition is very high in the online gambling sector they do away with KYC so, in reality, we'll never know if the one joining is of age and not a child who wants to gamble his allowance.

Either you do or implement KYC and lose your customers / players (because many gamblers do not want themselves to be disclosed who they are) or Do not make KYC compulsory and allow the under-age play the gambling. It's a trade off and you have to choose between the two.

I prefer no KYC on gambling sites and parents / elders looking after their kids activities and keep the check & balance on them. After all, if parents can't control their kid to avoid gambling, why would the gambling sites care who is playing and who is not. Also the purpose of the casino is to collect money and they don't care the age of people playing.

[milewilda]

Knowing about the age restriction about gambling, and being applicable to online gambling as well. Is it really effective to limit the players? Because from my experience playing through different gambling sites, I don't see any that most of there are strict. They are just allowing you to create account and you can even fake your credentials to enter age above the limitation. There are some sites that don't really have anything to ask their players, and will allow you to directly play after your email has been verified. Yes, you have set your age in your email, but what if you exceed your age in your email as well?

That means, players of any age has really no restriction in gambling because of the weak regulation. Though, I don't like KYC to be a mandatory to every gambling sites. Maybe these sites could just improve or develop a system to detect if the players are really in legal age to play.

I could not think of any other way but KYC to verify if the one joining a gambling site is legit and of age, people want anonymity, and because the competition is very high in the online gambling sector they do away with KYC so, in reality, we'll never know if the one joining is of age and not a child who wants to gamble his allowance.

Either you do or implement KYC and lose your customers / players (because many gamblers do not want themselves to be disclosed who they are) or Do not make KYC compulsory and allow the under-age play the gambling. It's a trade off and you have to choose between the two.

Of course people would really choose up to play on a place or site that doesnt have KYC and as said people do give out importance into their privacy.
If you do own a site and implement strict KYC then it would really just restrict out most users yet you are just similar to those traditional fiat gambling sites out there.
This is the only way on stopping minors on playing into a certain site if it do have some verification but if not then expect that we cant just filter out those young minds
to jump in to the place.We know that accessing sites are way too simple to be done these days.

[kawetsriyanto]

KYC can serve as the way to the underaged from gambling, but this isn't the possible solution.

Why it isn't a possible solution? Do you have another option as a better solution? I think KYC is the right solution, it has been implemented in various platforms and proven quite effective. We just need to make strict and clear procedures to ensure it works properly.

However we stricten the KYC procedure it is impossible to stop people from filling up with fake IDs to get into gambling.

How if the new members must do a live video for data validation? I think it is possible, I ever did it in one of the exchanges. Even if we cannot remove the possibility of fake IDs totally, I think we can minimize it.

[criza]

Gambling could induce a higher risk for minors that are already engaging in the actuvity because, underage are more vulnerable in acquiring bad habits due to the fact that they do not still have fundamental mindset that will guide them on what is right and wrong. Here in our place, even though there is also an age restriction for gambling, the government cannot still always monitor people doing gambling in the streets even with minors in it because,  people can do it anytime and anywhere.

[Eugenar]

Well age restriction in gambling is really important, restricting kids in gambling is really important, it is really bad if the kids would be exposed in any gambling websites and casino gambling  because gambling can destroy our lives, especially on those kids who cannot still think properly. They should prioritize first their studies before anything else.

But the thing about the online gambling restriction age is it can be fooled, it can easily for the kids to say that they are already 18+ above.

Age 5? lol, I have no idea there is some kind of restriction like that and what kind of government they have.

Actually restriction nowadays is not really a problem because crypto gambling industry have solve it, most of the gambling sites does not require a KYC so there is no way they will know your real age, and I believe, kids nowadays are a heavy gamblers as well.

LOL, I think those 5 years old and below means that they are not allowed to bring their kids on casino gambling, not a 5 year old kid that will play casino gambling because obviously that kind of age cannot play well.