{"id":310,"date":"2025-07-31T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:56:42","slug":"ukgc-report-shows-47-of-restricted-sports-betting-accounts-are-lifetime-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/ukgc-report-shows-47-of-restricted-sports-betting-accounts-are-lifetime-profitable\/","title":{"rendered":"UKGC Report Shows 47% of Restricted Sports Betting Accounts Are Lifetime Profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/ukgc-report-shows-47-of-restricted-sports-betting-accounts-are-lifetime-profitable\/\">UKGC Report Shows 47% of Restricted Sports Betting Accounts Are Lifetime Profitable<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\"><\/div>\n<p>Sharp bettors have known for years that if they rack up the profits through their online betting account it\u2019s only a matter of time before they\u2019re restricted. Operators will often significantly slash the max bet they accept from these players to minimize their potential losses.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk\/blog\/post\/commercial-restrictions-by-betting-operators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collected data from licensees in 2024<\/a>, encompassing nearly 15 million accounts. About 4.3% or 643,000 of these accounts are limited in some shape or form.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>profitable accounts make up 47% of this restricted total, in comparison to just 25% of unrestricted<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lifetime profitable accounts make up 47% of this restricted total, in comparison to just 25% of unrestricted accounts. Showcasing how operators will limit bet sizes, 36% of restricted accounts could only wager at just 9% of a normal stake. Going even further, 22% of these people were more or less shut out as their limits were under 1% of a normal bet size.<\/p>\n<p>The UKGC emphasized that it has no control over how sportsbooks \u201cmanage their commercial liabilities\u201d and that there\u2019s no protection for profitable bettors under discrimination law.<\/p>\n<p>It did highlight how people who\u2019re restricted will often turn to illegal gambling sites or try to open multiple accounts to try get around the controls, which undermines important compliance requirements for operators.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator\u2019s big takeaway is that sportsbooks should be upfront and transparent with users about the circumstances in which they face restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/ukgc-report-shows-47-of-restricted-sports-betting-accounts-are-lifetime-profitable\/\">UKGC Report Shows 47% of Restricted Sports Betting Accounts Are Lifetime Profitable<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post UKGC Report Shows 47% of Restricted Sports Betting Accounts Are Lifetime Profitable appeared first on Vegas Slots Online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sourceforterminals.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}