{"id":36626,"date":"2016-06-14T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=36626"},"modified":"2016-06-14T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T20:54:34","slug":"uk-bookies-slammed-for-offering-perks-to-fobt-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/uk-bookies-slammed-for-offering-perks-to-fobt-players\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Bookies Slammed for Offering \u201cPerks\u201d to FOBT Players"},"content":{"rendered":"
UK bookmaking shops have been criticized by the BBC\u2019s Victoria Derbyshire current affairs program for offering free food and drink to players of fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBT)<\/a>.<\/p>\n The show recently interviewed numerous shop managers and former managers who described a widespread policy of offering \u201cperks\u201d to gamblers. One former manager of a Coral shop said that FOBT players were viewed as \u201cthe gods of the betting shop\u201d and revealed that staff were instructed to do \u201cabsolutely anything\u201d to keep them playing.<\/p>\n