real money gambling

We are in enough trouble already, it seems, with the type of online gaming where, to have the right to play, you purchase a number of chips or tokens. If you win, you build up a credit of tokens but there is no way of converting these into real money again.  You put real money in but you get nothing back, except the thrill of gambling.  This has ruined many people.

Real money gambling (or RMG) allows you to pay unlimited amounts of money in and, if you win, extract your winnings from the app and get real money back again.  But we all know how that goes. The danger of it is that it makes gambling so easy and so private that there are no barriers or brakes on your addiction. As the Reverend Tim Costello says ‘I can literally lose my home without leaving my home’. 

RMG is still illegal in Australia but Aristocrat is heading into this new market in the expectation that that will change.