It’s better to inconvenience hundreds than lose a loved one to gambling. It’s all too easy for someone to rock up off the street and plough their entire wage into a machine at a bookies or “amusements”. Let’s have a system, with a cooling off period, where gamblers have to sign up and have a photo ID to be able to slam a month’s wage in an hour.
If that id is monitored and subject to play limits, that’s what we have online it should be the same for everyone.
In a similar fashion, if someone can prove they are able to afford high rolling, in the UK at least, there should be a high roller system available for bonus buys etc 👍