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Confrontation: Coronavirus VS Gambling business
For many years, the authorities of almost all countries of the world have been fighting a nervous battle with the gambling business. Underground casinos are opening everywhere and the authorities are again throwing all their forces into the fight against betting.
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But then it appears: Super Coronovirus! This whole situation is like a fairy tale about a Golden egg, which everyone tried to break, but only the mouse did it. In a few months, the Coronavirus infection managed to do what the Supreme rulers of humanity took decades to do – it "killed" the gambling business!
But is this really the case? Are there no more places in the world where you can drink a glass of whiskey and bet a couple of bucks on zero?
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The editorial of MetaCasino.pt has prepared an analytical material for you, about which branches of the gambling business were most affected by the Coronavirus.
Land-based casinos
The first and most powerful impact of the Coronavirus was on land-based stationary casinos.
In the face of an epidemiological threat, people tried to leave their homes and stay in public places as little as possible.
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● USA
The famous Las Vegas, which worked smoothly during the first and Second world war, turned into a Ghost town in a matter of months. Its casinos closed for the first time since 1963, the year President Kennedy was assassinated. According to the latest statistics, the total losses of Las Vegas casinos amounted to more than 5.5 billion dollars.
● Czech Republic
Although the Czech Republic had the fewest cases of Coronavirus infection, King's Casino, which is a venue for major international poker events, had to cancel all tournaments and close for a period of quarantine. According to official data, the casino's losses amounted to about 5.5 million dollars.
● Austria
The famous Concord Card Casino, which was supposed to be 25 years old this year, was closed due to the inability to pay taxes to the state. The main specialty of this casino was poker, but in early March, the institution declared bankruptcy. The main reason is the lack of clients due to the Coronavirus epidemic.
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Owners of land-based casinos are recommended to start developing the online component of their gambling houses as soon as possible so that the Coronovirus does not completely sink their business.
Online casino against Coronavirus
But the online casino, on the contrary, is experiencing its best times. In a situation when almost the entire world was in prison, many of the boredom began to "spend" honestly earned coins in the casino. In this regard, our editorial staff has prepared for you the TOP 3 online casinos that not only earned money during the epidemic, but also managed to bring their brand to the world level.
● Rox Casino
A casino that everyone already knew about, but they learned even better during the Coronavirus period. According to unofficial data (after all, who will tell us the truth) on the excitement of their customers, Rox managed to earn about 4 million dollars. And this is almost 13% more than the casino's income before the Coronavirus epidemic.
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● All British Casino
The most famous British online casino, with which, according to rumors, Prince Harry liked to spend his free time during the pandemic, managed to increase its revenue by up to 24%. And this is despite the fact that gambling is illegal and the UK government has introduced strict regulatory measures regarding online gambling and betting. The high attendance of this platform has brought All British Casino to a new level and attracted customers from all over the world.
● BoVegas
And while real Las Vegas endures its worst times, virtual Vegas is on top of the glory. In the face of fierce competition and in order to attract the maximum number of new customers and keep the old ones, a welcome bonus of 5000$ was introduced. Either a gift from the company, or boredom, but the number of players for the period from January to may increased by 40%. And where new players - there is profit!
Sports reference: offline or online?
The sphere of sports betting has suffered the most. The fact is that the absence of Grand sporting events such as the world Cup, the UEFA Champions League, the League of Europe, the Wimbledon tennis tournament and many other competitions were either canceled or postponed indefinitely.
According to the analytical company Standard & Poor's, the betting market fell by almost 37%. This has never happened before!
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For example, in the UK, the demand among both beginners and professional bettors for betting shops that specialize in sports has decreased by 41%, and this is despite the fact that the demand for online casinos is growing on the contrary.
In addition, during the quarantine period, offices are prohibited from using topics such as Coronavirus and self-isolation for advertising purposes.
"And if there is no sport, then there is no point in betting" - you might think. But it wasn't there! Global companies such as 1xBet began offering their clients an alternative-Belarusian football. As you know, there is no Coronavirus in the Republic of Belarus – so the President of the country said. This means that there are no reasons for changes in the gambling services market. In this regard, many ratting corporations offer their clients to bet on the Top League and the football championship in Belarus. This is certainly not the European Cup, but in the context of a pandemic, you do not have to choose very much.
The second birth of e-Sports
E-Sport has become an excellent alternative to standard sports betting.
According to the latest analytical data, e-Sports betting activity looks something like this:
● 73% - FIFA cyber football
● 21% - Counter-Strike
● 5% - Dota2;
● 1% - Other games;
And as for the world e-Sports Championships, no one canceled them. This means that e-Sport is one of the few industries where avid players carry their money in the hope of getting an adrenaline rush and earning a couple of hundred dollars. For example, the FIFA cyber football world Cup and the NBA 2K20 cyberbasketball tournament are waiting for us. Thus, e-sports, whose popularity has grown rapidly in recent years, as well as betting on e-sports have received an additional impetus to even greater development.
Alternative betting
However, bookmakers are well aware that you can not deprive their customers of the pleasure of gambling and offer alternative ways of betting.
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So, for example, you can bet not only on
local social events in your country, such as when the football season resumes, or the League of Europe. However, the most popular bet was on Coronovirus. Betters around the world are betting on when the pandemic will end, whether the borders of States will open, and whether there will be a second wave of the epidemic.
Conclusion
Thus, it is safe to say that no sphere of life, no economic or social sector could resist the Coronovirus. But as far as gambling business is concerned, everything is ambiguous. Actually, everything is like in betting: someone wins, such as online casinos, and someone suffers losses, such as sport ratting. But we believe that sport betting will return as the Phoenix bird as soon as all sporting events resume.

I had the opportunity to go to the Cameron Gallery in Encinitas for a putter fitting last week (an early Christmas gift from my wife) and thought I would share the experience with the golf community. Experience is the keyword here as they point out this isn’t really a putter fitting as much as an analysis of your setup, stroke, and roll. A brief intro, I am 57 and have been playing golf since I was 11. My current index is 9 based on men’s club competition, but a bit lower if I tracked non competition rounds. Living in Southern Cal allows year round golf and I play at least 1x a week if not more. Putting has always been the stronger part of my game and I have putted left hand low since my early teens. I average just over 28 putts per round per Grint (over 100 rounds). My gamer is a proto Spider tour, and have at least 15 putters that have been thru the bag over the years, including a couple of Scottys, but have never been a SC fanboy to say the least.
The Gallery is about an hour drive from my home and I arrived 30 minutes prior to the store opening and my booked time. There were already 15-20 people waiting in line at the door, and by 10am there were over 40. I guess a lot of Christmas shopping.
I was greeted by Brennan for my two hour session. The fitting room is private behind closed doors and frosted glass and approximately 15 x 30 feet. There is a section on the wall containing multiple video monitors and around the perimeter were multiple golf bags full of “tour only” putters. They where all over the place, like any big box store. If you covet a Tour Only putter this was your Mecca.
Bag of Circle T's
The first 15 minutes were questions about why I was there, my expectations for the session, discussion on the “art of putting”, and Scotty’s putting philosophy. Brennan has the title of Senior Analyst and I learned he achieved that from long term training at the main studio. He was the consummate professional in every way and really has a passion for what he does. He left the room as I was provided about 10 minutes to warm-up and practice. The hole is 20 feet from the testing location and I quickly learned there was a slight break from right to left at the hole. Fast green is an understatement.
Upon his return, Brennan set the stage for the next steps. He pointed out there were hi-speed cameras all over the room. They would be taking super slow motion video and stills of my posture from the front, behind, side-to-side, and even above me. Every angle you can think of. In addition, there were cameras focused only on the ball, again from all angles. Brennan positioned a ball that had lines around the circumference both vertical and horizontal and asked me to putt it as if I was playing a normal round. Lined it up, stepped in, put a good stroke on the ball, clean smooth roll, and it went in the hole. I was feeling like I just won a multi-hole carry over skin. Now comes the video….
First view is close up of the ball from the front. This shows the putter head coming into impact and the after effect in the slowest speed and minute detail. Brennan discussed what a good putt should do with forward tumble and roll prior to analyzing my ball. What we saw and learned is my stroke comes in a fraction steep and causes the ball to jump up and fly before starting to tumble end over (roll). It was way outside the scope of what a good putt should look like but imperceptible to the naked eye. Next was a down the line close-up. Those lines on the ball are very helpful on slow-mo. I learned that in addition to the angle of attack, my stroke is ever so slightly cutting across the ball, which imparts a clock wise spin axis but almost impossible to see even if practicing with a lined ball. Not a big deal on 2 footers, but longer putts and the ball could be offline right just enough causing a missed putt. The silver lining so far according to Brennan is I have perfect tempo and sound fundamentals with my stroke. Brennan said he can see why I am a good putter….however improvement is coming.
Briefly, we also learned that my eye line is a fraction too far inside the ball possibly causing the cut spin, and my spine/sternum favors the right side of my stance. We worked on some subtle changes, which honestly felt really foreign to me at first, but the improvements were almost immediate. The ball rolled just that much better. At this point I am happy to know how to make more putts and have some excellent advice on what to work on.
Now on to putters. Brennan says that with great fundamentals you can putt with just about any head style and shape. Tiger Woods could putt with a claw hammer and still be great. Feel is the theme now. What looks good to your eye, and the confidence it brings equates to the overall feel you get. Tiger uses the same putter all these years because it FEELS right. My gamer actually feels better with the changes we have made, but Brennan starts handing me all types of putters to test. Quick point here, the fitting process is not a sales presentation in any sense of the word and Brennan drives that point home. I can leave right now with an amazing experience and enough knowledge to work on my putting and save some strokes. We still have 30 minutes and who doesn’t want to try everything from off the rack and custom putters to $10,000 GSS and 009’s….and that is where this gets interesting. By now I have probably rolled 50 putts with different putter styles and I am rolling the ball really well and sinking the majority of putts. A Ping Anser was my first serious putter and used it for years and also have a Newport 2 that was in the bag for a while, eventually giving way to other brands and styles in search of making more putts. He notices that I keep going back to a Newport style, almost subconsciously. He leaves the room and comes back with a custom Newport 2 and hands it to me. Looks like many of the others I have already hit, and I actually think the paint fill is kinda ugly, but….It feels completely different, like a magic wand. It's hard to describe in print, but it was...different. Explaining that I really don’t like the color scheme of bright school bus yellow dots and matching grip, he leaves and returns with a few variations of color, etc…some custom, some tour only. It’s like he is a drug dealer and now I am hooked on crack. Then one of them stands out. Love the color scheme, love the look, and it has the magic wand feel like the other. It really feels different in a good way…And of course it’s a tour only TN2. Yea, you all know what these cost. But…I have some discretionary disposable income and won a large jackpot at the casino recently. Justify, justify, so...
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I could write at least two more paragraphs on the stuff we covered. It truly was comprehensive and a great education, even if it cost much more than I anticipated. The entire experience was beyond my initial expectations and I highly recommend going to a similar fitting session even if it’s not at a Scotty studio. There are tons of different fitting opportunities available like Club Champion or TrueSpec using SAM and other tools. Just learning what my tendencies are and how to correct them was some of the best golf related money I have ever spent. Heck, if making more putts will help take some extra skins of my regular group of degenerates it will pay for itself over time.
Now off to practice making some putts…