Legalized Gambling where you live..where does it stand?

[stomachgrowls]

I am just kind of curious how legalized gambling is coming along in whatever part of the world you live in?  I'm from Illinois in the United States and we just recently legalized many forms of gambling.  It's progressing pretty quickly too.  I'm hearing a lot of radio ads, seeing ads on TV for different sports books and what not etc.  I see this as great progress.  Free will is something we all deserve and though I know gambling can cause serious addiction etc, that shouldn't be up to our governments to decide whether we should be allowed to do it or not. 

So I ask you, how is it coming along where you live?  Is it fully legal, coming close to being legal, or illegal with no change in sight?

Most physical casinos are placed mostly near in capital city here on my country and i do only see a few that are placed or located on provinces which is a bit understandable.They arent placing it on

poor areas but rather reside on where wealthy people do live on and so this means that they do allow such business to exist or operate then it signifies that it isnt really against with gambling

and the fact it is one of the most high tax payers on the country which it is impossible that government would really go against it.

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[Fredomago]

In Russia, any casino or slot machine is illegal, but for some reason this does not apply to gaming sites... But there are many illegal casinos where absolutely addicted gamblers play slots, and it all looks terrible...The owners of such casinos pay bribes and are ignored by the police...
But there are plenty of bookies! So the government's policy on gambling is not quite clear to me...

That's expected, casino operators resort to bribing officials to continue their operation, and it has become a cash cow of corrupt government officials, the government did not, or refuse to see this, the government can make money from the taxes they imposed on these gambling casinos
only countries with religious imposed bans should ban gambling if it is not they should consider regulating these casinos, I'm glad that we are an open country and gambling is legal and it's helping our government through taxes.

It's a good cash-cow either casino owners pay taxes as government mandate that as obligation but behind that there are corrupt officials who also getting a good amount of bribe money either to lower the taxes or to bring their business quicker, taking shortcut without undergoing with the right process.

Things like this are always present when dealing with a good amount of money. Corrupt officials see this as opportunities to add up more money to their bank accounts.

[OgNasty]

I’m curious if legalized gambling is going to start taking a bite out of crypto’s gambling empire. It would be hard to argue against gambling being one of cryptos most profitable industries. I wonder if this will have an effect on gambling and might even possibly begin to change the landscape of bitcointalk as we have all grown accustomed to seeing gambling advertisements everywhere.