warned the public not to participate in cockfighting betting offered by illegal operators<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt said: \u201cSabong being closely intertwined with our culture is presently gaining popularity as an online gaming activity among Filipino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGaming responsibly is when a player only bets with money that he or she can afford to lose<\/strong>, making sure that money allocated for daily sustenance and for the family is not used.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven police officers have been removed from their roles in Quezon City due to alleged involvement in illegal gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippines has seen a significant crackdown on illegal gambling, leading to the removal and arrest of nine police officers in Quezon City for alleged involvement and failure to prevent such activities. Concurrently, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) has issued a responsible gambling warning to e-sabong players, emphasizing financial prudence amidst the rapid growth of this newly regulated online vertical.","focusai_entities":"National Capital Region Police Office, Maj. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr, Phil Star, The Inquirer, PAGCOR","focusai_location":"Quezon City, Philippines, Ayson village","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.8), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Licensing","query":"How might the alleged involvement of law enforcement in illegal gambling influence PAGCOR's future B2B\/B2C licensing processes and governance frameworks for new gaming verticals?"},{"label":"E-sabong Growth Outlook","query":"What specific measures is PAGCOR implementing beyond warnings to ensure responsible gambling compliance among licensed e-sabong operators, given the rapid growth of this vertical?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","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=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23167,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}