Holland Casino is a Dutch state-owned company and has the legal monopoly on gambling in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

, and has thirteen casinos located throughout the country. Profits from Holland Casino go directly to the Dutch treasury. In 2007, profit was around 267 million euros and in 2006 some 263 million euros.

Casinos

The headquarters of Holland Casino is located in Hoofddorp. The first casino opened in

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on October 1, 1976. Since 2008, the

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casino is the largest branch. Other branches can be found at: *

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* Amsterdam Sloterdijk *

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* Valkenburg *

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Games

In the branches of Holland Casino the following casino games can be played (not all branches offer all of these games): * French roulette * American roulette *

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Caribbean Stud Poker Caribbean stud poker, also called casino stud poker, is a casino table game with rules derived from five-card stud poker. However, unlike standard poker games, Caribbean stud poker is played against the house rather than against other players. Th ...

Bingo Bingo or B-I-N-G-O may refer to: Arts and entertainment Gaming * Bingo, a game using a printed card of numbers ** Bingo (British version), a game using a printed card of 15 numbers on three lines; most commonly played in the UK and Ireland ** B ...

Poker Poker is a family of Card game#Comparing games, comparing card games in which Card player, players betting (poker), wager over which poker hand, hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, with varying rules i ...

Sic Bo Sic bo (Chinese language, Chinese: 骰寶), also known as tai sai (大細), dai siu (大小), big and small or hi-lo, is an unequal gambling, game of chance of ancient China, Chinese origin played with three dice. Grand hazard and chuck-a-luck are ...

Punto Banco Baccarat or baccara (; ) is a card game. It is now mainly played at casinos, but formerly popular at house-parties and private gaming rooms. The game's origins are a mixture of precursors from China, Japan, and Korea, which then gained popularit ...

* Money Wheel Average payment rate was 93% at slot machines, while the legal minimum is 80%. The tables is the average payout ratio 97.7%. All gambling machines are supervised by Dutch Measurement Institute and they are also inspected by the independent inspection company Verispect.

Compulsive gambling

The company has policies in place to prevent compulsive gambling as much as possible. Holland Casino was presented the Gaming Award for the most socially responsible business in the international casino industry, on January 21, 2008, in London.

Reforms of 2011

In March 2011, the Dutch coalition government announced a new gambling framework which in 2015 will open the country's online gambling market (including casinos, lotteries, poker, sportsbooks and bingo) to licensed domestic and foreign gaming establishments.Dutch News - Gambling market to be opened up
Retrieved on: April 9, 2011 The ultimate goal of the new Remote Gambling Act is to better protect the player while gambling online. Many online gamblers currently use foreign websites, so protection by the Dutch government is not guaranteed. The law should change this. The ultimate goal is to allow more than 80% of Dutch online gamblers to gamble legally in the Netherlands. Three different innovations have been set up by the Gaming Authority for this purpose.

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* {{authority control Casinos in the Netherlands Government-owned companies of the Netherlands Gambling companies established in 1974 1974 establishments in the Netherlands