China To Tighten Up On Internet Gambling

China has recently been reviewing their requirements for online gambling and Internet poker, and has announced it is there intention to put laws into place for online gambling to protect their citizens. They intend to have these laws protect underage children from entering online gambling sites as well as gamblers that are potential compulsive gamblers.

The Chinese Government with the enforcement of new laws are expected to enforce companies that are operation online casinos to be required by these laws to use software that will be able screen their users to ensure only poker players of the correct ages will be permitted into the gaming sites.

They also hope to enforce that the gambling software will limit online gamers to only have access to play any games in their online casinos to three hours per day. This software program that they are considering as one that will meet their requirements will half any comp points the poker player makes after this length of time.

Although the Chinese Government has made these comments about putting their ideas in to law there is not time frame for when a law of this nature will be put into action.