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This
week one of the well-known online casinos groups announced that
from now on it will implement the eCOGRA Program into their
casinos. More and more online casinos decide to work with the
eCOGRA Program, realizing responsible gaming is a very important
subject.
eCOGRA
stands for eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance
and in a non-profit organization headquartered in London. The
main objective of eCOGRA is to provide player protection by
ensuring a certain level of security and giving information,
ensuring fair gaming and the online casinos will have to show
responsible conduct. If the players of the online casinos can be
assured of these three points the online casino will get the
eCOGRA Seal of Approval, which they can display on their site
for all their users to see.
The
program of the eCOGRA includes an intensive staff training for
the online casinos managers to be able to give expert advice
about responsible gaming and to recognize underage in gambling
online casinos better and faster. The training uses the latest
technology and ID techniques. Online casinos with the eCOGRA
seal are also able to offer online casinos players to take a
test of the National Opinion Research Center of the University
of Chicago (NORC). It is a classified diagnostic test, used by
psychologists across the nation to recognize gambling problems.
The Chief
Executive Officer of eCOGRA Andrew Beveridge, clarifies that
eCOGRA believes that identifying and helping problem gamblers
and prevent underage gambling should be the main objectives of
all modern online casinos. Online casinos who disregard the
necessity of these measurements, are actually saying that they
don't care about the needs of their players, and these casinos
are putting their own interests first.
The online
gaming group who announced the application of the program exists
of five different online casinos on the web. The Spokesperson
for the group, David Brickman, stated that the group decided to
use the program because it cares about their players. He
explains that responsible gaming is an important issue, now that
the number of online casino players is growing everyday,
together with the number of trouble gamblers. He made clear
that with using the eCOGRA program, they are now able to help
troubled gamblers better than before. David Brickman added that
it is the mission of his online casinos to promote safe, fun and
responsible gaming, and underage gambling has no part in this.
The online
gambling group is one of the first to implement the program and
all the online casinos of the group now bear the eCOGRA seal, so
everyone can see now that they put the interests of their
players first.
Now that
responsible gambling is getting a bigger issue for all online
casinos, the eCOGRA program will be implemented to a greater
extent at the casinos. The eCOGRA program won't make problem
gambling disappear, but it is a positive sign that it is taken
seriously by the causers of the problem itself.
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