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Re:Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over l... by Al-Khwarizmi on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @05:44PM (#48286404)
What? Maybe you visited a particularly casino-heavy area, but in general there aren't many casinos in Spain. In many regions (e.g. mine) they're restricted to one per province. My city (250K population in the core, metropolitan area about 500K) has one. Madrid (6M metropolitan area) has four, Barcelona (5M) has one.

Sports betting places on the other hand have multiplied like fungi in the last two decades, unfortunately.

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Re:Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over l... by pennaMan on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:39AM (#48290111)
You are incredibly naive. There is one on every street, they are just called "sports bars" instead of casinos.

You're probably talking about the big Vegas style entire-hotel casino that aren't so popular in Europe anyway outside a niche crowd. The average lower class Spanish person frequents these "sports bars" heavily

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