probable pathological and problem gambling (PPPG) rates\u00a0<\/strong>among residents remained low at 1.2 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe survey was taken by 3,000 Singapore residents<\/strong> aged 18 and above between February and December last year. Singapore conducts a survey every three years to monitor the number of potential problem gamblers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt found that the average monthly bet declined from SGD30 in 2017 to SGD15 in 2020<\/strong>, while 89 per cent of gamblers bet SGD100 or less monthly and only 0.3 per cent bet more than SGD1,000 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe NCPG said the decline Covid-19 restrictions<\/strong> during the period of the survey could have affected responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lim Beng Tiong, leader of an illegal online gambling syndicate, has been sentenced to a maximum of five years and five months in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":12682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Lim Beng Tiong, leader of an illegal online lottery-betting syndicate in Singapore, has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison for collecting SGD4.32m in illegal bets. This enforcement action follows other recent arrests targeting illegal gambling and unlicensed moneylending operations. Concurrently, a national survey revealed a decline in overall gambling participation in Singapore in 2020, with stable low rates of probable pathological and problem gambling.","focusai_entities":"Lim Beng Tiong, NCPG","focusai_location":"Singapore","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Licensed Operators","query":"How might the sustained enforcement against illegal gambling syndicates in Singapore influence the market share and operational profitability of licensed iGaming operators?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Efficacy","query":"What specific enhancements or adjustments to Singapore's regulatory and enforcement frameworks might be considered to further deter illegal gambling operations, given the scale of seized funds?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,3573],"class_list":["post-21111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21127,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21111\/revisions\/21127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}