10 June, 2008 |

Online Gambling: A Bad Career Choice?

If you’re going to work for an online gambling site, you’d better watch where you go vacationing. Two employees of SportingBet were arrested in Turkey while on holidays because online gambling is illegal in the country. The country is cracking down on gambling, and this incident follows the arrest of two British vacationers last year because they played bingo in a bar.

Now America knows how archaic its approach is to online gambling. You would think that the Turkish governments would see from America’s ongoing attempts to arrest people working in the industry that it is a waste of time and resources. Normally America is leading the way for countries like Turkey to be more progressive, and we all know how progressive Turkish laws can be.

Other poker rooms are withdrawing from the Turkish online poker market. PartyGaming is one, opting to approach the Turkish laws the way they did the American ones.