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Author: Georgi Alipiev The subject of poker is vast – it has many varieties, but in its most popular form, Texas Hold'em, where each player is dealt 2 cards and five more are placed on the table, the total number of possible statistical combinations of the player's 2 cards and those of the ...

Last week, the WHO (World Health Organization) showed data showing that Bulgaria tops the charts for early onset of psychoactive substance use such as cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and even early initiation of sexual activity. Rarely does our country have the “honor” of being at the top of something, and this usually happens…

| Full text of the analysis | In recent months, the issue of the regulation of the gambling sector in Bulgaria, and more specifically lottery games, has emerged as an unexpectedly topical and hot topic in the public sphere. The specific reason for the rise of this topic were the proposals of the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Bulgarian National Federation of Gambling Associations, Valeri Simeonov, for the full …

Two weeks ago, the United Patriots deputies introduced a bill in the National Assembly aimed at restricting the sale and advertising of lottery tickets. It even went so far as to say that Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs called for the introduction of a VAT on lotteries - something that is widely known...

This is the opinion that our economist Nikola Filipov shared in the "Business Daily" program on "Evropa" TV: "It is not adequate to introduce changes to the laws in this way, from one day to the next, without any economic argumentation. This simply sends a lot of …

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In recent months, lottery games and their fans have been under serious political attack by Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov and the extra-parliamentary opposition in the person of the Democratic Bulgaria union. A bill has already been submitted to the National Assembly, which includes two main proposals – to limit (especially television) lottery advertising …

In recent weeks, two proposals to ban gambling ads have emerged from remarkably diverse sources. First, Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov said that gambling ads, specifically targeting the lottery, are "outrageous" and the NFSB is drafting a bill to ban them, and this week, the newly formed extra-parliamentary coalition "Democratic Bulgaria" also came out with ...