Government Announces Decision on Slot Machines

The long and frustrated wait of the Bingo Clubs Industry in U.K. is over. For more than 50 days since the Bingo Clubs Association representation to allow the Bingo Clubs on land of the British soil Slot Machines (also known as "B3" machines) to augment the net revenue of the Bingo Clubs was kept pending by the Government.
News is the announcement of the Government has finally come, in slight modification of the Gambling Act 2005 which restricted the installation of Slot Machines as only 4, consenting to add 4 more machines per licensed UK Bingo Club irrespective of the size of the Club.

Understandably the announcement has been welcomed by the Association with gratitude and at the same time expressing their desires that appropriate relief is granted on other pending issues like Value Added Tax (VAT) – amounting to double taxation on Bingo games.

Now what will be the impact of this announcement is the question floating in the minds of the Bingo lovers. Actually these Slot machines and other high stake and high value gambling machines are being installed in the land Bingo Clubs as side attractions during intervals. Between the end of one game and the starting of another, the Bingo players keep themselves engaged in putting their money into these virtual gambling machines.

What is so compulsive about these machines is the greed to get big monies very quickly within minutes by betting. No mind – no thinking and no planning – just the impulse is the only need on betting the money on these machines invariably larger in volume. These machines are regulars in a gambling den in the Las Vegas style and parlors and malls specially created for the people addicted to gambling in whatever way. In such a branded place of gambling no one will raise an eye-brow on seeing these machines in whatever numbers they are there.

But according to majority opinions of true Bingo players, these machines mar the very atmosphere of Bingo Clubs. Bingo games have all along been an enjoyable pastime of the British people, cheap and cheerful entertainment to make merry during their evenings. Specifically people are welcoming these Bingo Clubs for more than 4 centuries now in U.K. for the warmth and friendliness they are offering among the gathering, by playing Bingo games as a social game and not a gambling game. It is the common desire of many that the new flexibility offered by the Government is not misused by the promoters. There is every chance that Gambling dens will spring up under the guise of Bingo games club by unscrupulous elements. On the contrary, if the additional slot machines permitted now to be installed, bring more revenue and save the good old Bingo Clubs from perishing, it is again the true Bingo lovers who will be immensely happy.

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