Thai Betting Up 50% During World Cup

Filed in archive Betting on June 30, 2006

The World Cup has caused a 50% increase in online betting with Thai gamblers - according to Thai Webmasters.

Online betting is illegal in Thailand but that hasn't stopped thousands of Thai's browsing online gambling sites during the matches. More interesting is the number of Thai women that are gambling online - an increase of 32%

Colonel Suwat Changyodsuk, head of the cyber football gambling suppression team at the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said it was not easy to arrest cyber bookies because when the sites were shut, the webmasters could move to another host again and again.

From June 9-27, police arrested only one sub-agent of a major cyber bookie with circulating bets of Bt100 million. Some 618 bookies and gamblers were arrested in the period, when some Bt197 million changed hands.

Article: Online World Cup gambling up by more than 50 per cent