Sentences with phrase «games as gambling»

The Belgian Gaming Commission has officially recognized loot boxes and other similar microtransactions in games as gambling.

This act clearly defines all of the mentioned games as gambling, and therefore illegal in Belgium.

Electronic Arts CEO talks about the decision of some regulators to classify loot boxes in some games as gambling, including FIFA 18.

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The study's authors found that peckish participants in a card game known as the «Iowa Gambling Task» played more shrewdly and made better decisions than those who had eaten.

Lawmakers and activists saw an even bigger problem, comparing the purchasable loot boxes, in a game likely to have a large audience of minors, as akin to encouraging children to gamble.

Authorities in Belgium, for instance, have reportedly considered classifying video games with purchasable loot crates as forms of gambling.

Baccarat is used as a measure of Chinese traffic to Las Vegas because it's an incredibly popular game in Macau — the world's gambling mecca and the only place in China where gambling is legal.

Daily fantasy sports, where players draft a roster of football players to compete for points in a single - day worth of games, were acknowledged by Virginia lawmakers as a game of skill vs. pure chance, a key difference that allows sites to avoid a federal ban on online gambling.

Why fans believe it is true: Pete Rose has long acted as though his lifetime ban for gambling on baseball games was never actually supposed to be a lifetime ban and that he would eventually be reinstated.

Molly's Game is packaged as a movie about gambling, but that's just the first layer of a film that digs into the ramifications of the abuse of power.

There are gambling games to choose from as one of the favorite bets.

«If you want to play football when you walk on the pitch, you have to accept the gamble and the risk as part of the game.

As far as the gambling goes for tonight's game vs. the Champs, bettors were all over the Warriors in the early going, clearly focusing on Harden's absence and ignoring Green's dominancAs far as the gambling goes for tonight's game vs. the Champs, bettors were all over the Warriors in the early going, clearly focusing on Harden's absence and ignoring Green's dominancas the gambling goes for tonight's game vs. the Champs, bettors were all over the Warriors in the early going, clearly focusing on Harden's absence and ignoring Green's dominance.

He had an opportunity to score a hat - trick but I gave him the penalty as well... what you want is to win the game and not to take any gambles because if they come back to 2 - 1 it can be nervy.»

When you gamble and lose on sports, you can just think of it as paying an extra bonus charge to add turbo to what might otherwise be a really boring game.

Reizner, nicknamed Sonny due to his positive disposition, gambled before he even had money, betting on games of marbles as a young boy.

Now in this season as he goes about the business of proving that he is worth every cent of his contract (he has thrown nine touchdown passes and put the Jets in first place in the American Football League's Eastern Division through five games), he is becoming the quarterback that Werblin gambled he would be — a throwing artist who may eventually rank with the best — and he is still a swinger.

I don't know anything about college basketball, but I do enjoy gambling on as many NCAA Tournament games as I can.

One of those arrested was Paul Commonas, 29, a member of a gambling ring known as the Miami Syndicate, which is alleged to have won a fortune betting on rigged games at Milford in 1977.

«So it would not be as big a gamble for us to say: «We're taking Aaron» even if he's only fit after the last club game of the season.»

I think the gamble taken by Le Boss to start the youngter, Ains Maitland - Niles in back to back Premier League encounters has relatively paid off as Arsenal got some payments from the dividends declared per stake in the game.

Its just time for fresh blood who can cope with the requirements of the modern game, when Arsene was appointed he was a big gamble too and look what he turned out to be so lets not fear so much into gambling on another and even Arsene should appreciate and accept this as his the master gambler.

Hopping on the endorsement train early and padding his on - field salary as much as possible turned out to be the correct gamble in his case, as his promising MLB start quickly soured and he was out of the league by 2014 after four final seasons with Boston and the Mets in which he started only 34 games combined.

As well as arsenal can't afford to gamble the game against the magpies, giroud doesn't deserve to be resteAs well as arsenal can't afford to gamble the game against the magpies, giroud doesn't deserve to be resteas arsenal can't afford to gamble the game against the magpies, giroud doesn't deserve to be rested.

Many people thought that Louis Van Gaal was mad to pay # 36million for a promising 19 year - old striker from France, but his massive gamble has paid off as Anthony Martial has already scored four goals in four games for Man United.

Not until a desiring to centrally play Walcott made the Boss to re-take a gamble on doing rotation as he played Walcott centrally in our home game to WBA and it handsomely paid off.

I remember man city buying Stones and we got Holding, its a gamble sometimes it pays off a lot of times it does not, but that is life in general, but as i have said i wish Serge the best i do not think Bayern is the right choice for him in the terms of game time, when there are other clubs in germany where he would have received more time to develop, but that is his choice, lets talk about our players or prospective players.

In the table below, you'll see each coach, their record (counting OT and SO losses as a normal loss since this is gambling focused), and the amount of units you'd have won or lost if you bet on them every game.

It was a gamble for Minnesota, who'd seen Wiggins shine as a scorer but contribute minimally as a rebounder (four per game) and playmaker (two assists per game).

With online gambling laws and regulations relaxed a few years ago, there has been a huge appetite for online poker and other casino games as well as the ever - popular sports betting.

Despite evidence to the contrary, he claimed that these games constituted illegal gambling and were not classified as a game of skill.

Fun88 is a new online gaming provider that offers a variety of fun and exciting gambling products such as regular sportsbook, in - play sports betting, casino live casino and slot games.

The gamble certainly paid off as they came out on top and all players finished the game unscathed.

Whether Declan Rice gets a look in after his one mistake is anyone's guess but my sense is that Bilic will see his inclusion as a gamble in such a must - win game (for him).

Welcome to this week's edition of the Pinnacle Pulse where the line managers at Pinnacle Sports look to give you an unprecedented insight into the point spread movement on key games each week plus offer you the inside line on a little gambling theory to help players of all levels crank up their skill level and hopefully their winnings as well!

It's still early in the game, but New York's gamble on casino gaming is already showing signs it may not pay off as planned for the state.

But Macdonald also noted that daily fantasy sports, generally considered to be a form of gambling, is treated in New York as a game of skill.

State legislation enacted in 2013 that authorized construction of up to four upstate casinos also allowed Nassau and Suffolk counties to build gambling parlors with up to 1,000 video slot machines and table games such as roulette, baccarat and blackjack.

But the project to bring commercial gambling with table - top games like craps and poker to New York started very much off as a downstate project.

The short term funds for this gambling spree were provided in part by the CBI expansion of credit during this period, as well as by the Japanese central bank, which was expanding credit as well during this period, which the Icelandic banks were using in their risky game.

Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee Chairman Gary Pretlow (D - Westchester) said Tuesday he expects the Legislature would adopt legislation to legalize daily fantasy sports games if a court finds — as Schneiderman claims — that they are in violation of state gambling laws.

ALBANY — It's still early in the game, but New York's gamble on casino gaming is already showing signs it may not pay off as planned for the state.

To build the formula, Rutledge's team asked 26 people to undergo a functional MRI while playing a gambling game that required them to place bets, spin a wheel of chance and collect as many points as possible.

«The novelty in 2012 was that the frequency with which people gambled as well as the number of games and quantity of money they gambled decreased,» the report reveals.

Moreover, more that half of them take part in sports betting and poker in its various versions, although this is being regulated as a means of access to the games organized by public operators (SELAE and ONCE), which receive a large portion of the money that is moved by Internet gambling.

«We approach gambling within the framework of addiction, where we think that problematic gambling arises from a combination of individual risk factors, such as genetics, and features of the games themselves.

Some of the more creative uses given for a paper clip were: as a weight on a paper airplane; as wire to support cut flowers; counter / token for game / gambling; as a light duty spring.

The findings have important implications for problem gambling, as delusions of expertise are likely to be most prevalent in skill - oriented games and in serious, otherwise rational, performance - tracking gamblers.

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