Maybe the title sounds strange at first sight, but yes there are a lot of people who self exclude them from online gambling. In 2021, self-exclusion scheme is definitely a must for all online casinos!
If you consider yourself like you are spending too much time or money on gambling, you are always eligible to self-exclude. All licensed online casinos must be a part self-exclusion scheme.
Online Casinos in Lithuania
Online gambling industry first arrived in Lithuania back in 2016. This is the year when Lithuanian government officially allowed licensed and legal online casinos. It is pretty new online gambling market compared to other countries. All the rest illegal gambling activities were shut down and blacklisted. Of course, there were many casinos or sport books that operated even before 2016.
Self-exclusion in Lithuania
With the legalization of safe online casinos, people that gamble online increased severely in the last few years. Together with high amount of people that gamble, it’s expected self-exclsuion to grow as well.
Lithuanians reached the record of self exclusion during 2020. The number of people which decided to cut off their online gambling activities reached 17,000. The percentage rose to 10%, from 7% in 2019.
The trend of self exclusion was popular amongst women players mostly. On the other hand, the younger audience decrease the percentage of self exclusion during last year. Maybe this is due to corona crisis and durable lock downs that occurred. The percentage dropped from 9% in 2019 to 6% in 2020.
It might also be the case of more responsibility. Namely, younger audience tend to “grow” extreme gambling activities a lot faster. Then they decide to cut it off with “self-exclusion” scheme.
However the case might be, the Authorities are carefully supervising the entire market and its customers. They reported they will continue to do so in 2021 with even higher level of inclusion.
