2023-04-17 10:48:59
On the evenings of April 11 and 12, 2023, European Champions League matches were underway. The best teams from the Old Continent were in contention for the first legs of the quarter-finals (the return matches are scheduled for April 18 to 19, 2023). As a result, the progress of major matches goes hand in hand with the massive attendance of houses that offer sports betting.
The proximity of houses that offer sports betting to homes increases the desire of unresponsible bettors much more.
It’s 7 p.m. a few minutes past. We enter a house offering sports betting located at 24e avenue of the Buyenzi area (Bujumbura). Inside, regarding thirty young people rivet their eyes on the walls where the posters show in detail the scheduled matches and the odds relating thereto. Others watch carefully at least three screens that show the virtual bets. Meanwhile, hundreds of tickets are scattered on the floor. In this case, they are bettors who have lost their money betting on bad bets. But they don’t give up. Some of them are equipped with slips of paper and pens to carefully draw interesting matches and odds to bet on.
Then, the punters pass in turn to the reception to register their bets once morest the payment of a certain sum. After all, they are waiting for luck to smile on them to win. Which is not obvious. ” I bet almost every day on football matches, but I rarely win. However, I can’t get rid of it, it’s like drugs “, indicates the first-named Hussein in the process of locating on the display the matches on which to bet. Another youngster who agreed to talk to us is optimistic that some punters can make money in sports betting even up to millions of Burundian francs. But he does not ignore that the majority of them lose their money there to sink into misery. He explains that the proximity of houses that offer sports betting with homes increases the desire of unresponsible bettors much more.
Sports betting appeals to young and old alike
Another house that offers sports betting that we visited is the one located at 4e avenue in the Bwiza area (Bujumbura). Around 8 p.m. on April 11, regarding 15 people sat quietly in the hall watching a Champions League pre-match television broadcast. Other young people are in the process of registering their bets with the managers of the house in question. ” It is difficult to escape the temptation of sports betting. I keep losing but I don’t give up. However, I cannot explain this situation. Is beyond me. But one of the main reasons for this is that the houses that offer sports betting are our neighbors laments a young man in his twenties living in Bwiza.
It’s not just young people, even old people are indulging in sports betting” I started playing sports betting regarding ten years ago. It is true, I have won money several times. But the reality is that the money I’ve lost from sports betting far exceeds the money I’ve won. says a man in his fifties watching TV in the room.
Bettors keep losing their pennies
The houses that offer sports betting are constantly multiplying in the popular districts of the city of Bujumbura as well as in the urban centers of the interior of the country. Punters frequent them every day, especially when big football matches are scheduled. Bettors wager on matches hoping to win a pot of money. Unfortunately, a good number of them lose their money there, but do not manage to put an end to these very risky bets.
The situation arises as well while the proliferation of houses that offer sports betting in the popular districts of Bujumbura is an open secret. This increases the temptations to indulge in this kind of games. However, article 463 of law No 1/27 of December 29, 2017 revising the penal code is clear on this. Games of chance are prohibited in public places or open to the public, in all unfenced places where the public can have a direct view as well as in all other places, even private, where anyone wishing to indulge in gambling, is freely admitted to enter.
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