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We're thrilled to welcome Duncan Garvie (Founder of BetBlocker) and Monica Shafaq (CEO of Gordon Moody ) to the judging panel for the Casino Guru Awards 2025! 🤩 These incredible industry experts bring years of experience in responsible gambling, mental health, and player protection, reinforcing our commitment to fairness and social responsibility. 💪🌍 Mark your calendars for the live ceremony on June 6, 2025, at the Hilton Hotel, Malta. 🏆 Nominations are open until February 28, 2025—don’t miss your chance to shine! 🌟 To find out more, follow the link here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dDyuSYTn #CasinoGuruAwards #iGaming #GamblingIndustry #Awards

As part of Safer Gambling Week 2024, Casino Guru and BetBlocker hosted a thought-provoking webinar. 🤔 Titled "The Art of Blocking: Self-Exclusion Tools", it brought together five industry leaders to tackle the role of self-exclusion tools in promoting responsible play. 🎰 Moderated by Pedro Romero (BetBlocker), here’s a taste of what you missed: 💡 Katie Reynolds-Jones (GAMSTOP): Why lifetime self-exclusion might not be the ultimate answer—and why a 5-year model works better. 💡 Kate Graham (Monzo Bank): How personalized messages from players themselves are deterring relapses. 💡 Šimon Vincze (Casino Guru): The global challenge of self-exclusion—and why industry-wide adoption is non-negotiable. 💡 Duncan Garvie (BetBlocker): Insights on the Global Self-Exclusion Initiative and its mission to make self-exclusion seamless and anonymous. 🌍 Whether you're curious about the future of global self-exclusion systems, or just want to hear experts debate how to make gambling safer, this webinar has it all. Catch the full discussion here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dbf3qEdz #ESGW24 #SaferGamblingWeek #ResponsibleGambling #SaferGambling

🚨 Reminder: Nominate for iGaming Changemaker of the Year! 🚨 The new category – iGaming Changemaker of the Year – at the Casino Guru Awards 2025 is open to nominate. 🏆 This award celebrates individuals who have driven transformative change in the iGaming industry through innovative projects, impactful initiatives, and significant contributions. 💡 Know someone who has made a lasting impact? Or are you the one? ✨ Nominate today! 👉 https://casino.guru/awards And don’t forget, you can nominate for any of our other categories as well. Deadline: February 28, 2025 ⏳ #CasinoGuruAwards #iGaming #GamblingIndustry #Innovation #NominationsOpen

Prague spring during self-regulation winter. Did you know that Czechs work on their single-customer view? What started as an operator association initiative is now moving towards policymakers. This is not the only initiative that moved from self-regulation to the actual requirement. All license holders now have a 48-hour panic button available for their players, blocking access from all of them simultaneously. Fortuna Entertainment Group N.V. was at the forefront of these changes. First, they convinced other association members that monitoring and preventing gambling harm is a reasonable strategy. Then, they devised their analyses on markers of harm and shared them with others for good. Interestingly, they did not stop in their domestic market and are now lobbying in other markets where they operate, already with some success. Such a bottom-up movement is rare to see. One of the main barriers to self-regulation is the risk of giving the upper hand to your competitors. To pursue it takes a strong commitment with reasonable returns in the form of avoiding over-regulation. Convincing your competitors to do the same is not only the (morally) right thing to do but also decreases the risk of losing competitive advantage. It is pretty simple; it just requires a good amount of courage. I had the opportunity to discuss this inspiring story with Eva Heringova, and we will be releasing a recording of it in a few weeks' time.

The Safer Gambling Week campaign with Gamalyze is up and running. Successfully delivering safer gambling messages to players can be challenging. We got help from Mindway AI and their risk assessment game, Gamalyze, to tackle this. Our campaign has been here thanks to our partnership several times, but we have a few upgrades this year. Firstly, we reworked the top menu widget to make the message that something special is happening more evident. To stay aligned with the original intention to gamble, we focus our content on playing games. We implemented Gamalyze directly on our website and used the same layout as for all our free casino games. The resulting design is familiar to our visitors, thus decreasing the disruption from their initial goal. We also promote it as the game of the week. Lastly, we have invited several online casinos to participate with us and offer the game to their players. We intend to increase the reach of players who can learn about their gambling behaviour and use it to decrease gambling-related harm. For the record, Gamalyze is a gamified reinvention of the self-test, making it more user-friendly, engaging and actionable than typical player questionnaires. Gamalyze analyzes each player’s decisions and reaction to wins and losses while they draw cards from 4 different decks. Try it for yourself. The link is in the comments.