Bench 05 · Rules desk
Regulation
Regulators decide which games you can play and on what terms. We follow licensing changes and enforcement actions and explain what each one means at the cashier.
- Reports on file
- 32
- Latest filed
- Filed most by
- The SonicBet Desk (32)
Filed under Regulation
Newest first. A report can sit under more than one game type, so its chip shows the game type it was filed under first.
| No. | Report | Game type | Filed by | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 188 |  European Roulette Wheel: Pocket Order, Arcs and Zero Rules The single-zero wheel's 37-pocket sequence, the arcs built on it, how one zero sets the edge on every bet, and why New Jersey's rules carry no la partage. | RGRegulation | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 186 |  Double Zero Roulette Wheel: Pocket Order, Payouts and Rules New Jersey's code puts 00 between 1 and 27 on a 38-pocket wheel. How that pocket shapes each payout, the 6 to 1 five-number bet and even-money losses. | RGRegulation | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 183 |  Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo: The Man Who Beat European Roulette Legally He won a million dollars at roulette by tracking wheel wear. No cheating. No collusion. Just data and patience. The casinos fixed their wheels and he moved on. | CECelebrities | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 173 | Player Fund Segregation: How Regulators Protect Balances You want to know the one thing that keeps your money safe? It ain't the operator being nice. It's segregation. Fund segregation. | RGRegulation | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 162 | Reality Checks, Session Limits, and Loss Limits for Slot Players My friend Margaret played slots twice a week for thirty years. One day she decided to set a limit. It wasn't about denying herself pleasure. It was about remembering who she was. | SLSlots | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 160 | Problem Gambling Resources: Where to Get Help My first husband loved the racetrack. Every Saturday, he went down there with his lunch pail and his thermos, came home with stories about horses and the men who rode them. | RGRegulation | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 144 | The Venetian Ridotto: The World's First Legal Casino The Ridotto opened in 1638. It was not the first gambling house. It was the first gambling house operating under state license, with regulated rules, open to the public, and designed to extract maximum revenue from players while maintaining the appearance of order. | HSHistory | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 141 | Why Anonymous Play Is Limited Even at Crypto Casinos Cryptocurrency casinos promise anonymity but cannot deliver it fully. KYC regulations, blockchain traceability, and technical reality create barriers to true anonymous play. | CXCrypto Gambling | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 134 | How Advertising Rules Shape Online Gambling Marketing Gambling advertising exists under regulatory constraint more severe than almost any other industry. The rules reveal what regulators believe about gambling and about persuasion. | RGRegulation | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 125 | Age Verification at Online Casinos: How It Typically Works Age verification is a regulatory requirement. The casino must confirm that the player is at least 18 (or 21 in some jurisdictions). | GDGuides | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 111 | Why Some Jurisdictions Ban Celebrity Endorsements for Casinos The question of celebrity endorsement in gambling has never been straightforward in democratic societies, but it has become acute now that the marketing stakes have risen to match the gambling stakes. | RGRegulation | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 110 | KYC and AML Requirements Explained for Online Table Game Players Howard Hughes bought the Desert Inn in November 1966 for $13.2 million in cash. This was unusual because no casino operator in Nevada had ever paid cash for a major property. | GDGuides | Filed by The SonicBet Desk |