Minimum Age to gamble

[Cookdata]

I came across an article How Old Do You Have to Be to Gamble in USA?. In this article, i saw that the minimum age to gamble is between 18 to 21 years. I wonder if the online casino do follow this minimum age for gambling.

Yes, the gambling sites have our age data through the KYC documents. Do they ever restrict anyone who is underage to not to gamble?
Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

The casino and sport betting companies that are self centered on coins like Bitcoin and other friendly altcoins are majorly doing KYC to identify the person behind than the age bracket thing, they are more concern who the user is than the question "is the user is between the age bracket or not" and it's disturbing how society is having more numbers of gambling than those who are willing to real work. Not saying gambling is a bad practice but it should be practice and recognize by the norm set aside by regulatory bodies, that's why you hardly see scam accusations of casinos and sport bet confiscating an account for age requirements, they are always fighting bonus abuses and multiple alts on gambling.

I also think because is now digital, your phone can do the job thess  days that's why it's even difficult to fight this or take legal action. I do say to people that AML or KYC is used by some companies because they fear been fine or any legal action against them, they don't do it in accordance of the law. I don't like KYC by the way.

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[Oshosondy]

Many online casinos and physical ones do not enforce the age restrictions until the user wins big at which point they talk about the regulatory rules and use it as a reason to not payout.

If you win small amount of money and you want to withdraw it from the casinos if you have not get verified before, you will se how strictnthese online casinos are. You can deposit easily without KYC, but to withdraw is strict and with KYC and the casino will make sure that the gambler has not violate any rules in the terms of service. It is not only about big winning.

[seleme]

Underage gambling is dangerous due to various reasons followed by bad effects of gambling on the developing brain. They are not old enough to understand the risks and look the casino games as fun, they can fall into the wrong assumption that casinos are the way to make easy money. Over 21 is a good age to let young people gamble and enjoy their responsible gambling action, not the other way. In online casinos, KYC data is required to register new users and they have to be verified to withdraw big amounts, that is the main rule of ToS in majority of the online casinos.

[Mahanton]

I came across an article How Old Do You Have to Be to Gamble in USA?. In this article, i saw that the minimum age to gamble is between 18 to 21 years. I wonder if the online casino do follow this minimum age for gambling.

Yes, the gambling sites have our age data through the KYC documents. Do they ever restrict anyone who is underage to not to gamble?
Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

If we do speak about minimum age not only on gambling but even on someone to engage with liqour and other mature things then you would definitely be needing to touch up that age of 18+ or more which it turns out to be that a standard age for someone to deal up with something like this. Come to mind that even on watching movies does have that 18+ age recommended and even on smoking or whatsoever on where it would really be needing that you should be on the right age for you to engage but we know that due to easy access or accessibility nowadays then it wont really be that so hard on dealing with things if we wanted to.
We've seen lots of minors who do really get engaged into those which are been prohibited and no matter how the government do really give out those warnings or prohibitions but still there are people who are really that able get to bypass those security measures on which it do ends up that these young people would really be able to touch up this field without their parents consent or awareness and on the time
that things get messed up then this is where they would really be caught on doing something like this.

[letteredhub]

Yes, the gambling sites have our age data through the KYC documents. Do they ever restrict anyone who is underage to not to gamble?
Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

The Gen-Z children we have now are so smart that they could use every available means within their reach to bypass KYC requirements through the impersonation of their parents ID and these are online casinos what you give as personal data is what they take in.  These online casinos understand the implications they could face such as legal actions  by allowing minors to gamble using their sites and that's why the introduction of the KYC.

A more proactive and advance method of the KYC system I think online casinos should add to their requirements should be a selfie picture or a 3secs vdeo selfie to be added to the customers data as a way to categorically differentiate between adults in gambling and minors posing as adults using their parents or guidance ID for reg of KYC.

[Ojima-ojo]

Many online casinos and physical ones do not enforce the age restrictions until the user wins big at which point they talk about the regulatory rules and use it as a reason to not payout.

If you win small amount of money and you want to withdraw it from the casinos if you have not get verified before, you will se how strictnthese online casinos are. You can deposit easily without KYC, but to withdraw is strict and with KYC and the casino will make sure that the gambler has not violated any rules in the terms of service. It is not only about big winning.

The thing is that casinos have the same rules as regards fo both deposits and withdrawals,  because at some point we have seen players being asked to make a verification for depositing an amount on the casino,  and also the same could be asked while trying to also withdraw from the casino also.


One of the points of KYC trigger is when one wants to make financial transactions such as either deposits or withdrawals and in so doing one must be ready to face that if you playing on a centralized casino.,  this does not have anything to do with age or what have you,  but even for age restriction, there is no way a player can manipulate that unless you playing on a fully decentralized casino.

[o48o]

I came across an article How Old Do You Have to Be to Gamble in USA?. In this article, i saw that the minimum age to gamble is between 18 to 21 years. I wonder if the online casino do follow this minimum age for gambling.

Yes, the gambling sites have our age data through the KYC documents. Do they ever restrict anyone who is underage to not to gamble?
Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

I find it weird that in the "land of free" people have full rights only after they turn 21. Here in Finland it's 18 and someone supervising my drinking and gambling after that would feel a violation of my rights.

I don't really know what the right age would be where people are responsible enough to make their own choices as i was an older man when i learned about responsibility, so either of those numbers wouldn't be right on my case.

[livingfree]

I came across an article How Old Do You Have to Be to Gamble in USA?. In this article, i saw that the minimum age to gamble is between 18 to 21 years. I wonder if the online casino do follow this minimum age for gambling.

Yes, the gambling sites have our age data through the KYC documents. Do they ever restrict anyone who is underage to not to gamble?

It isn't being followed based on the policies of the casino, they'll only follow up a kyc if it seems you're winning a lot and you're withdrawing at most times with huge amounts.

We will never know if how many of those have they encountered but this isn't like an open secret to them. They're probably aware of it but if no data is provided then, a customer is a customer on them regardless if the age is hidden.

Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

Maybe but it will only happen if a concerned parent found it out and it won't be cheap to do that I guess.

[Hispo]

I can see casinos easily restricting some minor from playing after going through the classical KYC methods. On the other hand, legal actions against a casino would rather depend on whether it is a registered one in some country and where their headquarters are, in theory the casino is supposed to follow the rules of the country it is registered and those it has gotten permission to operate in.

[PX-Z]

Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

Upon checking google, all the blame will go to the underage, i
Or its parents. Its account will be automatically banned/closed regardless the balance in it.

If parents will file a lawsuit to the casino of accepting minors, i guess the casino can file also a case to the parents back which i guess is much heavier case since the sole purpose of registration is on the underage even though casino prohibits underage to register.

[LDL]

There is a fixed age limit for gambling which is 18 plus years. In some cases the age limit of 21+ has been fixed.  But in some traditional gambling cases in our country, secondary and primary school students under the age of 18 are involved in gambling. Moreover, in the case of online gambling, school and college students under the age of 18 participate in online gambling without any age limit. However, in the case of gambling, a certain age limit should be set above 21 years and no one below 21 years can be involved in gambling.

[kamvreto]

The application of the player's age only applies to casinos that implement strict KYC, but to casinos that do not fully implement strict KYC there will be no such restriction. In fact, some of the children aged 15-17 do a little gambling and the game they enjoy more is the slot game. even access to slot gambling is now even easier and is available with a mobile slot application that can be downloaded from the playstore. Although not strictly gambling, it is a gambling game and is played by minors. Somehow the laws of minors play gambling, Every country has different rules.

[ajiz138]

I came across an article How Old Do You Have to Be to Gamble in USA?. In this article, i saw that the minimum age to gamble is between 18 to 21 years. I wonder if the online casino do follow this minimum age for gambling.

Each region is always different in terms of the minimum age to participate in gambling, but the average I see is 18+.
Online casinos are almost the same as the minimum age with this data, for example, stake.com is 18 years and over to be able to play there, maybe other online casinos follow the same rules.

Yes, the gambling sites have our age data through the KYC documents. Do they ever restrict anyone who is underage to not to gamble?
Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

For online casinos it is still difficult to limit minors if they don't do KYC, maybe casinos cannot identify every player who enters, but according to the rules it is 18 and over who can gamble.
I don't think there is any casino site that allows children to play gambling, if there is, of course they can take legal action because it is against the rules that have been set.

[Shinpako09]

Minors were playing online casinos before KYC became a thing in crypto casinos, and I believe they are still doing so in casinos that are not rigorous or haven't adopted KYC yet. Also, I'm sure they'll figure out a means to avoid KYC, such as discreetly obtaining adult IDs, such as their parents, and so forth. We have what we term "perya" in our area, and children, including grade schoolers, are allowed to gamble.

[Slow death]

in my country the minimum age is 18 years old, and this is not only for gambling, it also serves for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages, marriage, employment in the government or company, even for the person to open an account at the bank, in my country the person needs to be 18 years old or older. in the case of online casinos, it is difficult to control all the people who create accounts in the casino and this task of controlling so that people under 18 do not stay in the games of chance is a task of the parents, one should not blame some casino, the people should blame the parents who don't stay villainous, don't take good care of their children

casinos do their part to ask for kyc, but parents at home should watch what their children are doing, most parents are not asking their children what they do on the internet, what they do with the phone and computer, they don't look at the phones and their children's computers, they don't sit down with their children to talk about things like gambling in a way that makes them understand that they should only gamble when they are over 18 and that they shouldn't lie and break the law by playing in casinos knowing they have less 18 years old, are things that parents at home should do

in recent years, even 8-year-olds already have a phone, they are already on instagram, and I keep asking myself why do certain parents give an 8-year-old a phone? two years later the child is obviously already playing in a casino and age is a lie, in some cases even the child asks someone aged 18 to create an account in a casino and kyc and give him the account, it is normal for some 13 or 15 year olds do this kind of bad stuff

[Chikito]

I came across an article How Old Do You Have to Be to Gamble in USA?. In this article, i saw that the minimum age to gamble is between 18 to 21 years. I wonder if the online casino do follow this minimum age for gambling.

I believe most online casinos out there always follow that rules. I find not only legal but illegal casinos as well still follow that limited age. What the problem now is many people with under age bypass it even was click not under 18. We can't limit it, because this is a moral problem for young people. We don't know how to avoid it, maybe massive advertisements on tv and youtube make young people under 18 curious to play. maybe better to limit it and make rules about advertisements like reducing the image or animation.

[Wexnident]

Yes and yes. Sadly, afaik, it can easily be bypassed. Some people can still bypass that KYC problem by borrowing an identity, say they're parents (there are a lot of crazy parents out there, trust me) and they'd end up allowing it. Naturally, they can use the KYC documents for defense and in those cases, it's probably the parents who's gonna get the brunt of the issue. And if they somehow manage to actually play without their parent's help, they'd probably still be protected due to underage laws? Not sure but afaik that helps them get away with a lot of stuff.

Granted that you can actually learn how to gamble outside of casinos. And that's usually the start of something developing, which should be fixed if we really want to solve the problem of addiction. Though I guess this simply applies to anything really, like phone addiction by most kids.

[Gozie51]

Also, if we find any site allowing minors to gamble, can legal action be taken against them?

This area of the regulation is not really giving attention to. If casinos have been found to go against the regulating laws of the country or their rules in ToS then they should be liable to it. Quite a number of casinos have gone under the slap of the regulating authority, like this case of Mount Airy Casino  where the regulating authority in Pennsylvania issued a fine of $160,000 for allowing 11 and 13 years old to gamble.

[borovichok]

There is a fixed age limit for gambling which is 18 plus years. In some cases the age limit of 21+ has been fixed.  But in some traditional gambling cases in our country, secondary and primary school students under the age of 18 are involved in gambling. Moreover, in the case of online gambling, school and college students under the age of 18 participate in online gambling without any age limit. However, in the case of gambling, a certain age limit should be set above 21 years and no one below 21 years can be involved in gambling.

I anticipate in gambling activities, although I've master how to control the mind. Online gambling is becoming more popular every day, putting our children in danger. They have no idea how to deal with gambling, utilizing any additional money they have to play, which can result in profits or losses. Engaging in gambling activities at a young age will only result in addiction, and believe me when I say that the road to recovery is not simple. The legal gambling age is 18 years old althoughi preferred 21, and it is considered appropriate for such a teen to begin gambling, have a steady perspective toward gambling, and never back out.

[tusandii]

Many online casinos and physical ones do not enforce the age restrictions until the user wins big at which point they talk about the regulatory rules and use it as a reason to not payout.

If you win small amount of money and you want to withdraw it from the casinos if you have not get verified before, you will se how strictnthese online casinos are. You can deposit easily without KYC, but to withdraw is strict and with KYC and the casino will make sure that the gambler has not violate any rules in the terms of service. It is not only about big winning.

But in reality, many people who are underage freely play gambling in online casinos, somehow they will complete KYC when they make large withdrawals but everything can run normally.
Gambling is now being entered by all people and knows no age, so it is difficult if you want to limit the age that is allowed to enter the casino.
So far there are also several non KYC casinos making it possible for those who are underage to be able to play freely without the need to think about the KYC that the casino will ask for when making a withdrawal.