Bookmakers and casinos in Serbia are more accessible than ever. Data show that there are about 300.000 gambling addicts in the country. However, among the players there are those who make a living from poker and say that it is more mathematics than gambling
During the last year, 25 companies engaged in betting made a net profit of 11,3 billion dinars, while more than 28 billion dinars were paid into the Serbian budget from this activity.
A US soldier allegedly made $400.000 betting on a secret operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in which he himself participated
There are betting shops in the cities of Serbia on every corner. In 2025, the organizers of games of chance paid a record 28 billion dinars into the state coffers, which is almost 35 percent more than in 2024.
Someone on a prediction and betting platform made $515.000 by betting that 71 minutes before the start of airstrikes on Iran, they would happen
In May 2018, the US Supreme Court overturned a ban on states legalizing sports betting. Since then, the turnover of betting shops has been growing. Americans thus invested 2023 billion dollars in the legal market in 121,06. Tens of billions of dollars are turned over by illegal bookmakers. Frauds and scandals abound, and the integrity of the competition is called into question
Research shows that 30 percent of children under the age of 16 have had contact with betting and that Serbia is the second in Europe in the number of betting shops. About 300.000 citizens are addicted to gambling, mostly young people between the ages of 18 and 25
Younger and younger people are coming to treatment for gambling, and treatment is made more difficult by the fact that betting shops have sprung up like mushrooms at every turn of public transport, at every junction and in every free bar. It is unusually difficult to change lifestyle habits when challenges are aggressively present in the media and physical environment
The opening of the casino has divided the local public, fearing that an increase in tourism revenue could be accompanied by a rise in gambling addiction
