GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 39 - November 2017

QUOTABLES Quotables “Unfortunately for players, they can get scammed. And they have been scammed. It’s not the fault of the player. It’s the fault of the state for not appropriately authorizing it so that there are safe and regulated options for players to play on. It’s intellectually dishonest to claim that [online gambling] can’t be regulated when we know it can be regulated.” —John Pappas, Executive Director of the Poker Players Alliance. “It’s a booming country. We want to be there in time, and we want to make sure that we are, as usual, the market leader when it comes to poker.” —PokerStars CEO Rafi Ashkenazi, on moving the poker site into the Indian market. “We know that the majority of gamblers confine their losses to what they judge they can afford and regard the cost as a reasonable price to pay for the entertainment. For this group the key consideration is that gambling should be fair and free from the influence of crime.” —William Moyes, U.K. Gambling Commission Chairman. “Online gambling years are like dog years. Every year you are in it is like seven compared to a regular job.” —Lee Terfloth, Director of Interactive Product at Resorts Digital. “From the online operator’s perspective, especially the European operators that are looking to get involved, they are waiting to see some kind of signal for them to start to make applications, to inquire, to look into the possibility of having a U.S. operation, and we haven’t quite seen those signs just yet.” —Risk management analyst Jon Thompson on sports betting in the U.S., in an interview with Calvin Ayre. W W W . G P W A T I M E S . O R G 8