英国赌场

  不像世界其他地区,如北美洲、亚洲以及加勒比海的赌场那样,英国还没留心去建设蔓生的旅馆和赌场度假胜地综合体,赌场是旅馆和赌场度假胜地的一个比较大的观光胜地,以及有附属于赌场建筑的旅馆膳宿。

  根据法律,英国赌场是仅供会员的机构,保持他们在私人俱乐部范围里。在能够进入游戏前,客人必须弄到会员身份至少24小时,尽管在英国大部分赌场,这在网上很容易办到。

  英国赌博的历史

  英国赌博文化要追溯到几个世纪,但这从来没有赌场作为一个焦点,然而在最近几年里,网上赌博成为减少现实生活中赌博需求的另一个因素。

  其他形式的赌博相当流行,包括国家彩票、刮擦卡以及体育博彩。

  英国有强大的市场在博彩公司,提供竞技体育名次赌,尤其对于足球、赛马运动以及灰狗比赛来说。

  然而在世界其他地方的赌场增加越来越大,1960年英国赌博董事会限制赌场中的赌博机器数量为10台。

  1968年的赌博法案放松这准则,允许真正的商业赌场,但有附属于赌场建筑的膳宿仍是不合法的。

  而2005年通过的法案似乎为旅馆和赌场度假胜地综合体铺平道路,此后,赌博公司和反赌博派,包括政府部长以及首相戈登.布朗之间存在政治和法律上不停息的争辩。

  英国将很快有自己的赌场度假胜地吗?

  2007年1月30日,曼彻斯特赢得在拉斯维加斯旅馆赌场之后,英国首个旅馆赌场度假胜地所在地的权利。

  然而,仅两个月后,计划被评估,即英国上议院催促说,在不同的地区建立16个较小的赌场,而不是曼彻斯特度假胜地。

  而曼彻斯特庞大的度假胜地综合体,将会夸口说有,没有头奖限制的达1250台的老虎机,16个大的赌场经政府介绍,将每个仅有最大赌注2元和4000元的奖金的150台机器。

  2007年7月,英国卫报报道说,首相戈登决定撤销曼彻斯特旅馆赌场度假胜地的计划,但英国16个较小赌场在进行着,几乎排除这种巨大的旅馆和赌场综合体在可预知的未来被建在岛上的可能性……但是,再一次,我不敢打包票说!

  译文:

  Casinos in the UK

  Unlike other regions of the worldsuch as North America ,Asia and the Caribbean ,Britain has not looked to construct sprawling hotel and casino resort complexes where the casino is part of a larger tourist resort and has hotel accommodation attached to the casino building.

  British casinos by law are members-only establishments, keeping them within the scope of private clubs. Guests must secure membership at least 24 hours before being able to enter a game, although this can easily be done online for most British casinos.

  The History of British Gambling

  Britain has a gambling culture dating back for centuries, but this has never had casinos as a focal point, while in recent years online gambling has been another factor lessening the demand for real life casino play.

  Other forms of gambling are far more popular, including the National Lottery, Scratch cards and Sports Betting.

  There is a large market in Britain for placing bets on competitive sports at bookmakers, particularly for football, horseracing and greyhound racing.

  While casinos elsewhere in the world grew ever larger, in 1960 the Gaming Board of Great Britain limited the number of gaming machines in casinos to 10.

  The Gaming Act of 1968 relaxed this ruling to allow true commercial casinos, but it was still illegal to have accommodation attached to the casino building.

  And while an Act passed in 2005 seemed to have paved the way for hotel and casino resort complexes, there has since been no end to the political and legal wrangling between gaming companies and anti-gambling factions, including government ministers and even Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

  Will Britain Soon Have Its Own Casino Resort?

  On January 30, 2007, Manchester won the right to be the location of Britain’s first hotel-casino resort styled after Las Vegas hotel-casinos.

  However, the plans were reviewed just two months later, with the House of Lords urging that 16 smaller casinos be built in various areas instead of the Manchester resort.

  While the huge resort complex in Manchester would have boasted up to 1 250 slot machines with no upper jackpot limit, the 16 large casinos introduced under the government plans would have only 150 machines each, with top stakes of ?2 and prizes of ?4 000.

  In July 2007, The Guardian newspaper reported that Prime Minister Brown had decided to drop the idea of the Manchester hotel-casino resort, but progress with the 16 smaller casinos around Britain – pretty much ruling out the chances of this sort of vast hotel and casino complex being built on the island in the foreseeable future… but then again, I wouldn’t bet on it!