I'm hoping someone of a legal bent might be kind enough to share their wisdom with me.
It's like this...
Some time ago, I lost a considerable sum of money playing one of the virtual racing games on an online bookmakers' site.
Said bookmaker was regulated by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission under a licence issued under its Online Gambling Regulation Act 2001.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, that act demands that any such game must display the Return To Player [RTP]:
[7] The System must be able to display for each Game or Lottery, as the case may be, the following information on the current page or on a page directly accessible from the current page via a hyperlink:
[g] pursuant to the testing of the System, the percentage of total sums returned to Participant in relation to all house Games or Lottery, as the case may be, offered by the Operator.
Due to an oversight on the part of the bookmakers, at the time I played this particular game no such information was on display. Now, while I'm not suggesting that had this information been available, as it should have been, I would not have played the game, I can't help but wonder where, exactly, from a legal perspective this oversight might leave me.
I appreciate this may be wishful thinking on my part, hence why I'm on here asking for opinions of those who know rather more about these things than me, but couldn't help wondering if a case could be made that this rendered the game unlawful and, that being the case, for me to seek reimbursement of my losses?!
I fully anticipate there will be those who think I am clutching at straws and should take my medicine and it may well be that is what I have to do but, at the same time, I would be most grateful for the thoughts of anyone with some legal expertise.
Thanks in anticipation
GeorgeRoper
It's like this...
Some time ago, I lost a considerable sum of money playing one of the virtual racing games on an online bookmakers' site.
Said bookmaker was regulated by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission under a licence issued under its Online Gambling Regulation Act 2001.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, that act demands that any such game must display the Return To Player [RTP]:
[7] The System must be able to display for each Game or Lottery, as the case may be, the following information on the current page or on a page directly accessible from the current page via a hyperlink:
[g] pursuant to the testing of the System, the percentage of total sums returned to Participant in relation to all house Games or Lottery, as the case may be, offered by the Operator.
The Online Gambling Regulation Act 2001
The Online Gambling [Systems Verification] [No.2]Regulations 2007
The Online Gambling [Systems Verification] [No.2]Regulations 2007
Due to an oversight on the part of the bookmakers, at the time I played this particular game no such information was on display. Now, while I'm not suggesting that had this information been available, as it should have been, I would not have played the game, I can't help but wonder where, exactly, from a legal perspective this oversight might leave me.
I appreciate this may be wishful thinking on my part, hence why I'm on here asking for opinions of those who know rather more about these things than me, but couldn't help wondering if a case could be made that this rendered the game unlawful and, that being the case, for me to seek reimbursement of my losses?!
I fully anticipate there will be those who think I am clutching at straws and should take my medicine and it may well be that is what I have to do but, at the same time, I would be most grateful for the thoughts of anyone with some legal expertise.
Thanks in anticipation
GeorgeRoper
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