DraftKings is additional extending its dedication to accountable gaming by partnering with a not-for-profit charity that develops software program tailor-made towards limiting extreme play.
DraftKings is teaming up with BetBlocker to offer its prospects with easy-to-manage timeouts. The partnership is a part of DraftKings’ ongoing dedication to accountable play. (Picture: On line casino.org)
DraftKings, an iGaming and sports activities betting chief within the US, is partnering with Scotland-based BetBlocker to implement accountable gaming instruments into its on-line betting platform. BetBlocker affords customers a simple resolution to dam hundreds of regulated and offshore gaming websites.
BetBlocker’s contributions to safer play are commendable and DraftKings is happy to group up with this enterprising and disruptive not-for-profit that’s advancing accountable gaming in a complete and client pleasant method,” Chrissy Thurmond, DraftKings’ senior director of accountable gaming, informed On line casino.org.
“We share BetBlocker’s imaginative and prescient that know-how and innovation are crucial to selling safer play, and we prolong a heat welcome to BetBlocker as they construct their footprint in North America, following widespread success throughout the pond,” Thurmond added.
BetBlocker is predominantly a self-exclusion device that may concurrently block web sites from many jurisdictions. The app additionally supplies a parental management possibility for fogeys searching for to restrict entry to playing websites on their dependents’ cell gadgets and computer systems.
World First
BetBlocker claims to be the primary free-to-use web site blocker for the worldwide on-line gaming trade. The corporate’s app is out there throughout quite a few platforms, together with iOS, Mac, Android, and Home windows.
The device permits customers to determine how lengthy to dam their entry to on-line on line casino and sportsbook websites. Choices vary from as little as a couple of days to so long as 5 years.
Whereas BetBlocker is prevalent throughout the UK and Europe, the place on-line gaming is widespread, the corporate hopes to extend its consciousness and availability for US on-line gamblers with its DraftKings affiliation.
“BetBlocker is thrilled to have the help of sports activities betting and gaming trade big DraftKings to increase our software program exterior of the UK and Europe,” stated BetBlocker Chief of Safer Playing Partnerships Pedro Romero.
Romero defined that BetBlocker has impressed DraftKings’ prior commitments to accountable gaming. In 2019, DraftKings reached a collaboration with the Nationwide Council on Drawback Playing (NCPG) to assist increase the DC-based nonprofit’s efforts. That association centered on the NCPG’s Safer Sports activities Betting Initiative and enhancing the council’s Web Accountable Gaming Requirements.
Ceaselessly Free
DraftKings’ partnership with BetBlocker will enable for a seamless integration of the web site blocker into the iGaming/sports activities betting app and on-line website. However no matter whether or not somebody is a DraftKings buyer, BetBlocker says its software program is free and out there to all.
Playing habit is a critical situation and one that’s often related to monetary misery,” the BetBlocker web site explains. “In contrast to our rivals, we don’t consider it’s proper to cost people who have already got monetary points to get the assistance they should management their habit.”
BetBlocker definitely isn’t the one playing blocker on the web. However these rivals — Gamban and GAMSTOP being two notables — sometimes cost iGaming firms to implement their accountable gaming safeguards.
BetBlocker is a registered charity in Scotland. The corporate depends on contributions from the communities it serves and company donations from its companions, like DraftKings.
