Topic: What Becomes of Gambling if Sport book is taken away. - page 3. (Read 778 times)

You don't need a sportsbook to gamble, so if it's taken away, people will still gamble as long as there's a game. Game is created first, people gamble with friends but sportsbook sees this opportunity to facilitate bets and make some money from commissions, so if the government will decide to make sportsbook illegal or simply make them stop their operation, gambling still would exist though not on the same manner.

The thing is, why would the government do that when they can make taxes from casinos/sportsbook they regulate, so these sportsbooks are here to stay and will continue to serve us who are looking for some real entertainment.

betting has been in existence quite long ago before sports betting started and the word adaptation is one powerful thing God has blessed humanity with which generally means that we can adapt to whatever situation we find ourselves in. Even if soccer is banned globally betting will still continue but to be realistic, thier is no possibility that sports or soccer would be banned any moment from now. Soccer is one of the most popular sports since the existence of the world and it's not in any way affecting the world negatively to even attract any opinion regarding the possibility of it being scrapped so thier is absolutely no point of conversation regarding this.
Soccer Stays till the exit of the world.

If sports betting gets banned, it will simply continue to exist, but in the grey/black economy. Online sports betting platforms will host their servers in offshore territories, where sports betting is allowed and those online platforms will become VPN-friendly.
I do think that gambling and the casinos will lose popularity, because banning them means that the normies will stop using them. However, the hardcore gamblers will always find ways to keep gambling, even if gambling becomes illegal. There will be way less casinos/bookies and their income will be way lower, but gambling cannot cease to exist.

Sport bets constitute a great deal of the business casinos generate, and soccer is the most popular sport around the world and it is not even close, so you can bet that many casinos could go bankrupt because of this, as I doubt they could find a way to replace that lost income, since many gamblers only care about soccer and no other sport.

However this scenario will never happen since soccer as a sport will never be banned, not only because of its popularity but also because compared to other sports soccer is relatively free of any major controversy, so there is not much that those that could be against it could use to argue for its ban.

There will be a shrink and that's a normal thing to see if that has happened all of a sudden. But you can hope for the gamblers that are also die hard fans that they're going to find a way to enjoy themselves with any sports that are still doable to gamble.

In the long run, there will be a recovery for sure but we don't know what actually it is going to be until we see it happens. But at the end of the day, gamblers will remain gamblers and will find a way to bet out of something.

Football is sport that has really been attached to and is loved by everyone from various countries with any background, after all, no matter how bad the problem is and no matter how complicated the conditions that occur in football, it will not have global impact.
Moreover, every problem will always have solution and in football there are lots of problems that occur but up to now it has never affected anything globally that would cause  ban on this sport.

It is important to remember that none of this will happen, if it does, perhaps only in certain leagues or competitions and not as whole.
In addition, sports are not just football because there are various types of sports listed in sports betting, so if there is problem in one type of sport, there will still be other sports options.
Popularity and volume of the gambling industry will never be affected, and I think this kind of thinking is going too far, having the idea that global problems with football would cause ban is ambiguous.
Yes, you are right, there will always be other alternatives in gambling that allow gamblers to still bet and have fun.

I think this will be difficult to happen when football is not just a sport, but it is almost a religion, it is very difficult to ban it. If it does happen, it will only happen in a few countries and will not affect the entire world's football industry. With the current explosion of technology, casinos can operate everywhere, without borders, so the impact of some countries banning citizens from participating in sports betting is only very small.
Besides, casinos have many games, sports betting (soccer) is just a small game among them. Therefore, the popularity of gambling is not lost. You should remember that the predecessors of gambling are traditional games such as roulette, baccarat and blackjack that have existed since ancient times. Then new forms of betting based on sporting events and horse betting appeared. Not to mention the popularity of poker today, it has developed into an industry of its own with tournaments, live and online events, and even television shows, contributing to its rise and popularity of the gambling industry.

Well. Needless to say that such ban would be probably very hard or impossible to enforce in an international way. There will be always people to break the law for the sake of sports and also for the sake of money and gambling. Hence, that is why to this day we have illegal activities like dog fights, Ilegal underground fights, illegal racing, cockfighting, etc.
But assuming the governments of the world somehow manage to enforce the ban in an effective way, then I indeed believe the casinos would suffer a very sustancial lost percentage of their volume.
Though, the urge for gamblers and bettors to wager money would be still so big that I believe people started to bet on animal races, on the weather and other things which are completely unrelated to sports.

To some people, betting is such of a big deal in their day or week that even if their passion sport was to be taken away from them, that would not spot them to try to make a quick buck off their chances. 

I believe that if they did a survey to find out how many people play at the casino and look for gambling games that depend on luck and how many people like sports betting, I believe that the number of people who play gambling games at the casino that depend on luck would be much greater than the number of people who place sports bets to the point where the difference in this number is absurd, so when people stop placing sports bets due to government bans, this will not affect casinos much, because the number of people who are in sports betting there is a small number of people, to give you an idea of what I'm talking about, this is an article from 2 years ago

As more states legalize the practice, 19% of U.S. adults say they have bet money on sports in the past year



source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/09/14/as-more-states-legalize-the-practice-19-of-u-s-adults-say-they-have-bet-money-on-sports-in-the-past-year/

looking at this data from this article we can see that most people choose gambling games that depend on luck because they can play with little money and if they are lucky they can win a lot of money and how people want to win a lot of money even though they know that this can lead years of playing and even then they may never win that much money, still people prefer this path, while in sports betting people don't win a lot of money unless they also put a lot of money in and obviously putting a lot of money in sports betting means risk d lose a lot of money easily. It is enough to see that it is difficult to hear that someone became bankrupt because they were buying lottery tickets, but it is normal to hear that someone became bankrupt because they were betting on sports.

There is no doubt that casinos will lose gamblers but I doubt they will lose popularity. Gambling is a big industry while sports betting a very popular market it is not the entirety of gambling, there are other types of gambling games than sports betting that gamblers likes/love to play. also, if you hypothetical scenario did happen, pretty sure those sportsbettors will find an alternative to sportbetting.

And let's say that would happen, there is a thing called "adjustment".

Bettors will be used to gambling without those sports as time passes by and sooner, they will just do their usual gambling habit without involvement in sports betting since that was all gone. These bettors will still be gamblers and will just simply shift to other gambling types.

Gambling in general isn't possible be lose interest by many. The only way it could happen is if the whole world will ban gambling but that is impossible.

Indirectly, gambling users will switch to other sports because sport is not only football, although I know this is just an illustration of gambling without a sports betting bookie, perhaps many parties will also be harmed, not only sports bookmakers but athletes too, especially since football is a sport. which is most interested in by the whole world because there are many matches available in leagues from several countries, to be honest it would be boring because I am not too interested in gambling on other sports betting let alone playing casino games.

I always lose when gambling in casino games, especially in sports betting which I don't understand, so it will definitely be very lonely and abandoned by gambling and casinos without the sport of football, even though there are many other sports that can be played for betting, but I'm sure everyone would be happier with that. football sports betting because there are so many gamblers who bet all the time for small leagues and big leagues such as the Bundesliga, Laliga, Italian League and even the EPL, which is clear that gambling would be even more boring without the sport of football.

Yea right, it won't affect casinos because majority of them some provide sports betting to their customers, you will only find casino games on most online casinos, but there are betting platforms that rely entirely on sports bet especially football.

Gamblers will always be gamblers  , if one sport is down there are a dozen more to go, even people who hated other sports like Rugby or car racing will have no choice but to start looking into such sports.

Football is one of the most popular sports in the world, it will surely affect many gambling platforms, I believe that football betting has a big place in the world already, and taking it off the table will affect every betting business that ever existed.

Still, it won't stop people from gambling, some gamblers don't even place bets on sports games, they are good with Roulette and Slots games, in the long run, those football fans will find their way to other sports games or casino games.

I understand your points but I think if it's a global scale then it would definitely reduce the activeness of many casino because football is the one sports that touches almost everywhere if not everywhere even. But people will still adjust because that's the number nature of humans but I believe many countries will be affected but for like countries like where the participation isn't that much then the effect would be also felt that much.

If all sports are banned to bet for, then I think that's crazy.
Gambling has been a part of it for ages and if they banned this kind of thing they are just wasting a lot of money because most of the bookies will try to do it illegally.
So what is better? Let them do it where the eyes of the government can see it, or prevent their people from gambling and just let those illegal gambling sites take the profit? Without tax of course because there won't be a license that is needed.
Letting it play out is a win-win situation for the government. They get taxes which they can use for their projects and they get to see who are the people doing it and this avoids money laundering schemes.
2 birds in one stone, so I don't think they will just try to stop it. Just imagining how much crazy money is coming in and out of gambling sites is already a sign that stopping it won't happen at all. There's just a lot of money at stake.

this will surely disappoint many people of course specially gamblers because Sports betting is one place in which gamblers can nurture their favorite sports at the same time they can do betting , supporting their  team and supporting their vices .

but surely after some time? they will change into other gambling of course because gambling is part of their lives and banning sports will not hinder them to gamble completely .

Your country rules and law can't be the same with mine, a what is acceptable as a norm might be a grave crime in your own country.

Global ban on football can never happen, because in some country, football is like their culture or gods, for example Brazil, who dares ban football in such a country? Is what if is too much to even fantasies about, not possible.

Or let's pretend it could, what benefit will the banners gain from it? Because there are many benefits that countries and the government make from football alone apart from other sports.

Football doesn't cause damages in any ways, for billions of people, its already a healing practice, something worth living for.

I don't think so gambling has a lot of alternative to it, gambling wasn't really just sports betting on football so even if football was banned globally I don't think it is going to stop gambling at all, for sure there might be a small effect for others who bet on football but I'm sure that it will just pass at time goes by and we will move on to it, Football is not just the sports, we have baseball, Basketball, horse race, tennis etc. it will continue for sure even though football is banned.

It would not lose popularity for sure but football fans are not going to be happy about that, and the whole gambling on football is gone as well, that might affect some but if they are gambling I could see them going on other sports to bet, Not to mention that gambling is not just sports betting there are a tons of card games like blackjack, poker, etc. Then we have lotteries out there, dice games can't even count because there were just too many of them.

This is just hypothetical, in reality, I don't think that there was a possibility that Football was going to be banned at all or gonna die, I mean Football was really popular around the world it has a lot of leagues on it, unless no one is playing it already it might be forgotten through the history, but with this fan base it's almost impossible to die or get banned.

Dont forget, that casinos today offer a large variety of games to play. If sports betting will be banned, there are still plenty of way to gamble. If a specific sports becomes banned and would be unavailable for betting anymore, there are still plenty of sports to watch, play and gamble. Imo gambling industry is so developed, that will find a solution to this issues and will always offer gamblers something in exchange.

I know very well that there are other sports like basketball, volleyball, tennis, rugby and so on. The works will definitely adjust, but the game we love do much will be actively missed. I don't ever wish to wake up to such a reality. It will affect not only the casinos, it will also affect serious individual businesses like football journalism, coverages and so on. Back here in my country, no viewing center ever gets patronage from showing basketball matches or other forms of sports, the moment the fixtures are football, you'll see people from all works of life trooping in to satisfy themselves with 90 mins of purest excitement and social connection with fellow viewers.

Football have really impacted our lives positively, and its no doubt the most enjoyed, and the most popular sports ever. Like I said earlier, I don't wish to wake up to that sad news of the extinction of football. Personally, I might lose interest totally in sports.