If an amendment to the gambling law is introduced
Finnish online players could recoup losses
(Finland).- Helsingin Sanomat has received data according to which the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health plans to introduce an amendment to the law on gambling that would enable Internet gamblers to claim back their losses.
2008-01-29
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The payer would be either the firm providing the online poker services, a credit card company or the winning player in the game. According to the Ministry, in practice this would mean that the foreign companies running the Internet poker services would in all probability prevent Finnish players from ever taking part in the game.
A player protected by such a law would be altogether too great a risk to the game organiser. The idea was conceived by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health civil servants together with the compiler of the report, the University of Joensuu professor of Law and Economics Kalle Määttä.
According to Määttä, such a law does not yet exist anywhere in the world.
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