{"id":25369,"date":"2021-12-09T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25369"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:05:51","slug":"liquor-and-gaming-nsw-fines-rob-waterhouse-over-illegal-gambling-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/liquor-and-gaming-nsw-fines-rob-waterhouse-over-illegal-gambling-ads","title":{"rendered":"Liquor and Gaming NSW fines Rob Waterhouse over illegal gambling ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liquor and Gaming New South Wales has fined the Australian betting giant Rob Waterhouse AU$4,500 for illegal gambling advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.-\u00a0The New South Wales Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA<\/a>) has revealed that it has fined the bookmaker\u00a0Rob Waterhouse <\/strong>for illegal advertising. According to authorities, Waterhouse was fined for breaches of the 1998 Gaming and Racing Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waterhouse had published gambling advertisements<\/strong>\u00a0containing prohibitive incentives offering up to five bets per day. The ad was also shown on Twitter. The maximum fine for individuals for the publication of prohibited gambling-related advertisements is AU$11,000. However, as the bookmaker pleaded guilty, Waterhouse was fined AU$4,500 (US$3,244).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valerie Griswold, Liquor and Gaming NSW executive director of investigations and enforcement<\/strong>, said: “The prospect of collecting more punters should not be an incentive to break the law; the law is there to help people keep their gambling under control.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added: \u201cThis is going to create an environment where betting service providers are vying for people\u2019s business, so it\u2019s important that advertisements don\u2019t inadvertently encourage gambling harms in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November, Focus Gaming News reported claims by Marcel Savary, compliance director of the Liquor and Gaming NSW<\/strong>, that\u00a0some gaming companies<\/a>\u00a0were ignoring the state\u2019s gambling advertising laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savary said that the regulator has filed 119 allegations of violations of advertising laws<\/strong> this year. That\u2019s a significant increase from the 31 allegations against seven sports betting companies in 2020. Savary said that the New South Wales gambling regulator was concerned about the rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liquor and Gaming New South Wales has fined the Australian betting giant Rob Waterhouse AU$4,500 for illegal gambling advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Australian bookmaker Rob Waterhouse was fined AU$4,500 by Liquor and Gaming New South Wales for illegal gambling advertising, specifically offering prohibitive incentives in breach of the 1998 Gaming and Racing Act. This enforcement action underscores the regulator's increasing vigilance against non-compliant advertising practices, with a significant rise in allegations reported this year.","focusai_entities":"Rob Waterhouse, Liquor and Gaming New South Wales, New South Wales Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA), Valerie Griswold, Marcel Savary","focusai_location":"Australia, New South Wales","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.8), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (1.0), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact","query":"What are the broader implications of Liquor and Gaming NSW's increased enforcement activity on the operational strategies and marketing spend of licensed operators in Australia?"},{"label":"Compliance Best Practices","query":"Given the specific nature of the 'prohibitive incentives' violation, what enhanced internal controls and advertising review processes should operators implement to mitigate similar compliance risks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[229,23935],"class_list":["post-25369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-gambling","tag-sportsbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369","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=25369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25377,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369\/revisions\/25377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}