{"id":101833,"date":"2019-03-31T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=101833"},"modified":"2019-04-01T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:56:10","slug":"uk-betting-industry-braces-itself-as-fobt-reforms-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/uk-betting-industry-braces-itself-as-fobt-reforms-into-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Betting Industry Braces Itself as FOBT \u00a32 Lockdown Finally Comes Into Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the UK betting industry braces itself for drastic reforms to its fixed-odds betting terminals, which until this Monday accounted for more than half of their retail revenues, the UKGC has warned operators not to seek to offset the shortfall by diverting players to new, equally harmful gambling games.<\/p>\n