Volume: 6 Issue: 7
( 2007)

Keywords:
virtual world game of chance skills game prize minor online gambling e-gambling i-gambling internet gambling grooming

Authors:
carl rohsler

Organisations:
hammonds

Jurisdictions:
global

Opinion: Games of chance in virtual worlds: a new gambling frontier

There are a number of games of chance or skill in virtual worlds in which prizes can be won, which can be sold to other players for a profit. Such games remain largely unregulated at present. Carl Rohsler, head of the gambling team at Hammonds, debates whether these games constitute gambling and if they have the potential of 'grooming' youngsters for more conventional forms of internet gambling.

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