Glasgow gamblers spend £800m per year on fixed odds betting terminals

iGaming Business – Gamblers in the Scottish city of Glasgow spent over £800 million (€956.1 million/$1.3 billion) on fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) over the past year. According to the Herald newspaper, a total of £1,400 in bets per capita was played on FOBTs in Scotland’s biggest city in 2011-12. In addition, new figures also showed a 20% rise in the amount of betting shops since gaming laws were loosened in 2005. Glasgow is now home to 250 betting shops, up from 210 shortly after the change in law around eight years ago. Campaigners have put the rise in the…