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Hypothetical question

Danger Fourpence · 2015-07-20 20:48:20

Myself and a few friends throw money into a pool each week. We pick one match and guess the score and whoever guesses the correct score wins the money. Is this considered to be gambling? Theoretically, should we need a license for this? I know this is small scale, but in theory is this subject to gaming laws etc?

20-07-2015 9:48pm

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Danger Fourpence

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Myself and a few friends throw money into a pool each week. We pick one match and guess the score and whoever guesses the correct score wins the money.

Is this considered to be gambling? Theoretically, should we need a license for this? I know this is small scale, but in theory is this subject to gaming laws etc?

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Not sure of the legalities but unless you're doing it in North Korea you'd be hard pressed to find a cop willing to bang your door down for it.

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#3 20-07-2015 10:37pm

Danger Fourpence

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Collie D wrote: »

Not sure of the legalities but unless you're doing it in North Korea you'd be hard pressed to find a cop willing to bang your door down for it.

Yeah I'm not worried in the slightest, but was just wondering what the legalities were. By right, should I have a gaming license? A betting license? Am I even gambling?

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