Poll results: Operators don't need help to defeat fastest finger punters
More than three quarters of respondents to this week's poll suggest time delay sufficient to see off opportunistic âgamblers'
At the start of the week Great Britain’s Gambling Commission published its planned review into in-play betting which concluded it would not implement more regulatory measures around the product.
According to the regulator, and the law, courtsiding is not an offence while âgamblers’ who look to beat operators to the punch and take advantage of picture latency issues can be fended off by operators implementing in-running time delays.
Some of these âfastest finger first’ customers use bots to automatically seize on any delays in price updates, yet the Commission also said it would not introduce any ban on the use of such technology.
With this in mind, this week’s EGR poll asked whether the Commission was right in its conclusion or whether it should have instead looked to give operators a helping hand in their battle against such dubious practises.
However, the overwhelming view was that no further regulation around in-play was required with 76% of respondents suggesting in-running time delays and increasingly quicker pictures were sufficient in the battle against the bots.
Yet despite these measures, money continues to be lost each year to fastest finger first customers and the remaining 24% of respondents felt the Commission should have taken a more heavy handed approach to such customers.