Casino News Article of the Month: Fair Gaming and Problem Gambling in Sight

The online casino gambling community starts the month of June off with a toast to eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) for positive achievement in helping curtail problem and underage gambling, overseeing the continuance of fair gaming, and recruiting more online casinos and gambling sites to uphold the Play it Safe Seal issued by eCOGRA.  At the non-profit organizations second annual training course in London, gaming officials praised the accomplishments of delegates abiding by the new set of standards and encouraged them to keep up the hard work.  Notable Swedish psychologist, Thomas Nilsson revealed at the meeting that of the 2% of reported problem gamblers, there was an increase in the number of women who fell into this category.  Despite this showing, Nilsson said he is confident that more online casinos will be implementing the Canadian Problem Gambling Index to help problem gamblers identify their condition, and that the final UK online gambling regulations resulting from the UK Gambling Act would be positively influencing online gaming regulators in the near future.