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Online casino groups promote responsible gambling
There are many online casinos which have yet to comply with the responsible gaming program initiative from the eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance organization, or eCOGRA. The basic idea of the new regulations for member online casino operators is to combat problem gambling and promote responsible online casino gambling as well as prevent underage gambling, which is a problem for online casino sites because all it often takes for a youngster to get on an online casino and wager money is access to a parent's credit card.
There are many safeguards to preventing youth gambling at an online casino, but the problem with them all is that not every online casino understands the best way to implement the regulations is simply to implement them. If someone wins a jackpot at an online casino, the odds are that the online casino the jackpot was won at will do all they can to get the winner to re-wager a bunch of the money they won in order to get back some of what the online casino had to pay out. While this is to be expected, it is often the case that someone wins a jackpot at an online casino who doesn't have a lot of spare change sitting around.
And so it is that online casinos working with eCOGRA have formulated the responsible online casino gaming program to prevent people from getting lost in the muck of problem gambling, returning them to the idea that gambling at online casino sites should be about having fun above all else.
