{"id":942350,"date":"2025-06-30T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942350"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:49:29","slug":"96-users-engage-in-real-money-gaming-in-telangana-despite-knowing-its-illegal-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/96-users-engage-in-real-money-gaming-in-telangana-despite-knowing-its-illegal-study\/","title":{"rendered":"96% users engage in real money gaming in Telangana despite knowing it&#8217;s illegal: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A first-of-its-kind study survey on consumers indulging in real money games in Telangana had shown 96 per cent of users know real money gaming is illegal in the state, yet still participate in online sports betting and casino betting, with 87 per cent playing daily. <\/p>\n<p>Making quick money (97 per cent) followed by entertainment (61 per cent), are the major motivators for betting. In 2017, Telangana became the first Indian state to ban all forms of online real money gaming including games of skill like rummy, fantasy sports, poker as well as online gambling and betting. The ban was enforced via amendments to the Telangana Gaming Act. Punishment includes fines and jail time, even for first-time offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A first-of-its-kind study survey on consumers indulging in real money games in Telangana had shown 96 per cent of users know real money gaming is illegal in the state, yet still participate in online sports betting and casino betting, with 87 per cent playing daily. Making quick money (97 per cent) followed by entertainment (61 per cent), are the major motivators for betting. In 2017, Telangana became the first Indian state to ban all forms of online real money gaming including games of skill like rummy, fantasy sports, poker as well as online gambling and betting. The ban was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}