Inside Asian Gaming

IAG APR 2022年4月 亞博匯 80 If correct, eschewing the unwise embrace of the Department of Customer Service and a generic approach to regulation would cause additional short-term disruption, but undoubtedly better position the organization, pending whatever policy gymnastics are revealed in the government’s eventual response to the NSW Casino Inquiry to build capability and effectively discharge its important supervisory role. But to connect thesemusings to the status quo for online poker you need to acknowledge the striking dichotomy between the high gambling spend per capita of Australians and associated substantial and escalating gambling taxation revenue accruing to state and territory governments, and the awkward position the industry occupies in the political psyche and cultural milieu. Simply put, there is limited political capital and disproportionate risk attached to disrupting the status quo, whether to foster innovation, remedy obsolescent legislation, encourage innovation and investment or empower the regulator to effectively supervise the industry. To debate gambling related policy and legislation risks enlivening a vortex of policy difficulty and rent seekers from all quarters, while also illuminating defects in existing arrangements. Unless policy proposals are framed within a crackdown or harm prevention narrative, they are unlikely to get traction, and sans a watershed intervention such as the Victorian Royal Commission into Crown Melbourne, or hastened momentum around advocacy, there is limited appetite for policy adventurism in this space. But suspend pragmatic disbelief in sensible policy outcomes while we traverse some kindling in search of arguments, albeit not formidable research, for distinguishing online poker and removing it from the troubled wake of online casinos. SKILL OR CHANCE If you poll interested players you will elicit a cacophony of claims that poker is a game of skill, and while not attempting to be the final arbiter here, it occurs to me that poker has key features of a game of skill, but also possesses chance fundamental to its fabric. While COLUMNISTS 與行業所處的古怪政治心態和文化處境 形成鮮明對比。在進行博彩相關法例及 政策的討論時，都有機會要面對一系列 政策難處以及來自四面八方的只顧個人 利益的人士那些過於輕率表現所帶來的 風險，同時也有可能曝露出現時做法上 的不足之處。除非政策的建議都是以打 擊不法活動及傷害防治為主軸之下建構 出來，否則它們就不太可能成功起動。 除非有像維多利亞州皇家委員會對於皇 冠墨爾本的那種調查，或者出現在倡導 和主張於短時間內得到大量推動力的情 況，否則很難會有人有興趣在這方面的 政策上作任何大膽之舉。但在我們遊走 於各種不同引發念頭的事物上，試圖尋 找把線上樸克分別出來、不再與網上娛 樂場混為一談的不同論點時，雖然未能 像在進行研究一般嚴謹，也請先不要對 可察覺到的政策結果表現出務實的不信 任態度。 是技術還是運氣 如果你向那些有興趣的玩家詢問 意見的話，你的問題恐怕會引來大大小 小雜亂的回響，聲稱樸克是一種牽涉技 術的遊戲，但同時也有運氣的成份作為 基礎在其中穿梭。雖然必然是牽涉了運 氣，但最重要的問題是：到底運氣牽涉 到甚麼程度，以及是否為當中的主宰角 色？ 要在這事情上給予一個肯定的觀 點，實在十分困難。可是，如果要公 開承認已經有充分證據顯示樸克並非一 個由運氣主宰的遊戲，還有表現與結果 都和技術有關係，特別是在經過一段時 間後更是如此的話，似乎亦很合理。也 就是說，在時間越長和局數越多的情況 下，技術就變得越重要，結果也越來越 可被預測。即使你還想在技術的重要性 這一點上作無謂的糾纏，但線上樸克依 然應該與角子機及俄羅斯輪盤這些以運 氣為主的娛樂場遊戲分隔開來。 賭博危害的風險 在移動設備和白標系統供應商的影