More Singapore Gamblers Ban Themselves From Jackpot Rooms

A growing number of gamblers are voluntarily banning themselves from all the 46 jackpot rooms in the city-state and the Singapore Pools online account, where they can place bets on games such as football and 4D, The Straits Times reported.

There were 4,878 self-exclusion orders from jackpot rooms in force at end-December last year, a 25% jump over 3,895 such orders at the end of 2020, the report added.

Read the full report: The Straits Times.

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.