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The Growing Gambling Trend in Thailand: Statistics and Challenges Revealed by Academics

Academics reveal that each year, more than 30 million Thais gamble in all forms, with 4-500,000 million per year of money spreading, with 6-7 hundred thousand new gamblers increasing every year. While the new generation ignores it! because they prefer to gamble online via their smartphones

Mr. Rattaphong Sornsupap Director of the College of Social Innovation Rangsit University revealed that from a study by the Problem Gambling Study Center, it was found that each year there are 30 million Thai people involved in all forms of gambling, with more than 300,000-400,000 million baht per year and every year there are new players increasing on average per year. 600,000-700,000 people by playing a variety of gambling Didn’t penetrate into the lottery only, there are football betting and online betting.

In addition, it is believed that the Cabinet (Cabinet) approves the Government Lottery Office to issue new lottery products. Both the three-digit lottery number or N3 and the lottery 6 or L6 will not be able to solve the problem of overpriced lottery and underground lottery because underground lottery has been in Thai society for a long time. Sellers are familiar with with more buyers easy to buy There are credits and discounts for buyers too. while estimating that if the government issues the N3 lottery, there should be around 40,000 million baht in sales per year, similar to the lottery on the ground during the government period in the past As for the buyers, there should be both the same group of buyers who bought both the underground lottery and N3, while new buyers may not be many because N3 is unlikely to be dishonest with the new generation. The study found that the new generation prefers to gamble online via smartphones more.

However, the N3 lottery seems to come to an underground lottery competition. But must look at how much the price will be set. If set at 50 baht, it is not flexible. In addition, the underground lottery also has a credit system. Buy first, pay later There is a dealer in the village community. It is more convenient to reach buyers. But the strength of N3 is selling through digital only. It will reduce buyer’s risk because it belongs to the state. That’s right, you’ll get money for sure. information security More importantly, the digital system also helps filter out youth access. but in the end believe that the underground lottery will not disappear and will be sold in parallel with N3 as before

As for the L6 lottery, it will help the lottery office. It’s easier to increase the number of digital lottery tickets sold through the wallet app. But not sure if it will help solve the problem of over-selling because 1 year ago, the number of digital lotteries has been increasing all the time. But the lottery still sells more than the same price. Due to structural problems, that is, dealers do not sell themselves. have been sold during Especially from the group that has a permanent quota of 30 million per installment, it is considered that the old dealers should be reduced and turn to increase the purchase of reservations. because it is the real market demand “When proposing Allocate a new lottery quota may cause some agencies to be dissatisfied Because it’s a matter of benefit. As for adding the number of lottery tickets into the system, how much Looking at the numbers in 2011-2022, there are 50 million lottery tickets that are likely to be missing. Currently, there are 100 million per traditional lottery. If in the year 67, the digital lottery will be increased to 30 million, it is believed that the problem of over-selling is still there. In principle, increasing the number of tickets will keep the price going down. but must be added in sufficient quantities How much increment depends on considering many components ”.

2023-07-23 22:04:00
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