A new study from the Netherlands Gambling Authority (KSA) has shown the effectiveness of new rules aimed at improving player protection in the online gambling market.
The rules were introduced in the latter half of 2024. The study shows that the new rules have been effective in the first three months: since their introduction, the number of high losses per account has fallen.
Initially, there were fears in advance that players would circumvent the rules by creating more accounts, but there are currently no indications of this.
The channelling based on players (the share of players who play with legal providers compared to illegal ones) is also hardly changing at the moment. However, the gross gaming result (BSR, stake minus prizes paid out) of legal providers did fall - by around 10 per cent in the first three months after its introduction.
