IAGR 2023 Conference keynote

Request

In Andrew Rhodes recent speech to IAGR, IAGR 2023 Conference keynote – Andrew Rhodes speech, he states 'we do have by international standards a liberal market place with high levels of channelisation, reported at 97.6 percent'

This implies an illegal market of 2.4 percent.

Please can you provide all source material and calculations used to provide this statistic.

Response

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In your email you have referenced Andrew Rhodes recent speech to IAGR:

IAGR 2023 Conference keynote – Andrew Rhodes speech

where he states 'we do have by international standards a liberal marketplace with high levels of channelisation, reported at 97.6 percent.'

You have requested all source material and calculations used to provide this statistic.

This statistic was taken from a presentation by the Danish Gambling Authority (DGA), Spillemyndigheden. This figure, and by extension, the calculation behind the figure, was sourced from H2 Gambling Capital (opens in a new tab).

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