Safe & legal

A tip is worth reading only if the bet can be placed legally and safely. Here the licence question is settled first, and reputation comes after.

Under discussion are trusted sites, secure apps and phrases built around “not on GAMSTOP”; the latter name operators outside the Great Britain licence and are no advantage.

Licensed bookmakers confirm who a customer is (name, address, date of birth) prior to the opening bet, and they sit inside the GAMSTOP scheme. Offering betting to customers in Great Britain without the required licence counts as an offence by the operator (section 33 Gambling Act 2005). No equivalent offence targeting the ordinary punter has turned up; what such a punter forfeits on an unlicensed site is protection.

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