All I can say is it is an absolute joke that it’s going to take 2 years to implement the £2 stake on fobt. I have lost thousands on these and 2 years is to long.
I think the bookies will try to appeal it in that time too, it is a joke. Thankfully I haven’t touched these in years but I saw the desperation of people playing them. It’s going to ruin a lot of lives in the next two years for sure.
Totally agree mate. I thought by the end of next year but 2 years how many people is it going to effect in that time. The problem is the amount of money that the government is going to lose in taxes but surely peoples lives are more important these machines are dangerous.
Sounds like the GC chatroom!
Giving the bookies 2 years to change the fobt's over is absolutely ridiculous.
They have decided on a course of action and it should take effect within months.
Some people don't think it will change anything but I personally will be glad to see it capped at £2.
£2 limit still surprises me. I think it would be better if it was implemented sooner but just glad the limit is something that will make a difference. A bit concerened the bookmakers are being given time to make some kind of appeal.
ODAAT wrote:
Sounds like the GC chatroom!
Haha. Saved me few times that place quite comical that it’s tahen this long. But hey ho let’s accept the things we can’t change.
To be honest, this does not surprise me at all. Lives will only be destroyed by people who make the wrong choice.
So let's just make sure that we all make the right ones, eh?
'They' want us to make the wrong choices as 'they' know how vulnerable we all are.
But we can be better than 'them'.
NT
I think when it comes into effect every problem gambler will start gambling online and start losing even more and faster maybe even using credit cards to fund the gambling. If your an addict your an addict and only we as individuals can control are impulses. We need the strength in our own minds to stop gambling. Stopping a high Street bookmaker only moves the problem elsewhere. Maybe I'll go tescos to gamble and get 10 £10 scratchcards instead? I think everyone needs to take responsibilities for there own actions. I self excluded from every shop around but that didn't change the fact that I'm an addict so I bet online and on my phone and that's when things went downhill fast.
ForMyFamily wrote: I think when it comes into effect every problem gambler will start gambling online and start losing even more and faster maybe even using credit cards to fund the gambling. If your an addict your an addict and only we as individuals can control are impulses. We need the strength in our own minds to stop gambling. Stopping a high Street bookmaker only moves the problem elsewhere. Maybe I'll go tescos to gamble and get 10 £10 scratchcards instead? I think everyone needs to take responsibilities for there own actions. I self excluded from every shop around but that didn't change the fact that I'm an addict so I bet online and on my phone and that's when things went downhill fast.
Not sure I agree there. I used to have a problem with fobts yet never did it online. It’s easier to exclude yourself online, as ppl have said on here they’ve banned themselves from bookies yet still managed to gamble. It’s also hard when to go to get a pint of milk you can pass up to 6 bookies, I’ll be glad that it should result in no more opening. You should have to be a member to play those machines like in a casino. Totally agree on scratchcards, that’s my weakness and there’s no way to self exclude from that, I just don’t carry more money than I need now.
Membership is a good idea, it would help with underage gambling also. For me I just think we have to look after ourselves and make are own decisions. I think drinking causes so many problems, health, domestic abuse, fights in the street etc but do we go with a 2 pint maximum in pubs and superstores not allowed to sell crates of beer anymore?
With drugs and drinking you can only take so much before your body had enough we,re as gambling on these machines you don’t stop until you have nothing left in my experience . Most people on these machines don’t have control all rashinal thoughts go out of the window
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