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proportion of the UK gambling industry and has a 52 per cent share and brings in a GGY of around £3bn. Today bets can be made at
bookmakers (off-course) or on the tracks (on- course) or remotely.
The main types of betting in the UK include: l General Betting – betting shops (off course) l On tracks (on course) l Remote betting (including online gambling).
l Pool Betting – racecourse pool betting, on foot- ball and other sports and fantasy football com- petitions. Pool betting can be conducted remotely on non-remotely. Non remote is via the Tote which accepts pool bets on tracks and in the betting shops.
The betting sector is governed by the Gambling Act 2005 and in terms of GGR the betting market has a huge 47 percent market share compared to remote gambling (17 percent), casinos (16 percent), bingo (10 percent), arcades (six percent) and lotteries (four percent) which is excluding the national lottery.
There are a total of 9,108 betting shops in the UK operated by 319 operators. The main four operators have an 84 percent market share and are William Hill with 2,394 shops, Ladbrokes with 2,266 shops, Gala Coral with 1,836 shops and Betfred/Tote with 1,381 shops. The remaining operators have 1,231 shops between them.
Since the Gambling Act of 2005 came into force in 2007 betting shops and tracks can operate up to four machines from the B2, B3, B4, C or D categories.
The majority of betting shops operate B2 or B3 machines. These are referred to as FOBT - fixed odds betting terminals – which are touch screen electronic gaming machines found in betting shops across the UK.
They house a variety of games from roulette, poker to blackjack, slots and virtual racing. The maximum stake at the moment is £100. The UK slot operators are trying to reduce this to £2 to bring them in line with all other category B machines.
FOBTs were introduced into the UK market in 2002 and at the time were not regulated and many say they ‘sneaked’ into the betting shops without clear operating parameters. Self Regulation was introduced in a bid to stop them being removed.
They are unique products to the UK market. Technically they are B2 gaming machines but contain two categories of game content so casino
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