See? The largest operator of E-Sabong gets 3 Billion pesos of gross income per month and the Philippines will easily generate P640-million revenue from e-sabong operations in the country per month. That money would surely help them cover some bills for the nation especially now that it's still Covid season.
But even though that revenue will be a big help, the government still chose to ban the entire E-Sabong operation because of its effects. There are these missing workers who were believed to be dead already and most of all, it's obvious that the most affected are the poor ones because they are the majority bettors.
They only shut it down because the reports of people missing have been greatly publicized, but I believe if those reports didn't surface and weren't that sensationalized, the e-Sabong operations would continue as it is and the government will still rake in a lot of money monthly from the said legal operations. Personally I don't get why the government of the Philippines don't legalize most gambling activities in the country. It'll easily generate lots of taxes which, in turn, can pay for a lot of projects that the gov't has.
Then again you also have lots of department heads that do nothing but rape the gov't of its budget, so ultimately them banning e-Sabong operations didn't really change much.