TabCorp Gets Creative With Safe Gambling

TabCorp, a website used for punters and racing odds, recently had their CEO Elmer Funke Kupper, report 100% increase in promotion of responsible gambling on his 10 day tour to garner investor interest.

While this percentage is optimal, it may be explained by their technological wager platform, which is a disaster zone worthy of FEMA assistance which fails every week. It's no wonder that there is 100% increase in safer gambling - if there is no website, then there is no gambling, right?

Houston, we have a problem...
For example, say Mr. Punter from Victoria wants to keep up to date with the current odds for the race coming up. Mr. Punter may save this information to his hard drive, which upon further inspection is well over 400K of information.

Now, take 1,000 of Mr. Punters' "friends" all over the world who are also wishing to access and save this information, who do this repeatedly throughout the day and it puts quite the strain on the TabCorp's server.

The original Unix based platform was built in the 1990's by a supposedly inexperienced advertising agency and development team who had either never dealt with real time transactions or even bet in their lives before.

Tell me, if you put a bunch of blinking buttons on a piece of poop, does it make it prettier or is it just now a blinking piece of poop?

Cry me a river
Racing authorities are complaining about players depriving TabCorp's website which in turn harms their revenue, but how much of this problem is self-inflicted?

One thing is for sure, this is certainly one way to promote responsible gaming.

Tell me, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it still make a sound? Or rather, if the TabCorp's website fails weekly and therein forbids access by circumstance, does that put the player up for the "Safest Gambler of the Year" award?