UK Law Could Increase Penalty For Gambling Cheats

Card Player – A new proposal in the United Kingdom calls for an increase in the penalty for being caught and convicted of cheating at gambling. The full text can be found here. Under the proposed change, the maximum possible jail sentence would go up from two years to 10. Sporting events (explicitly) and online poker (implicitly) would fall under the scope of the amendment to the law. The bill in question is the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Bill. The sponsor is former sports minister Lord Moynihan. The move comes not long after the state of Nevada, the top gaming…