STAR Members can fund their play with a maximum of $5,000 cash per day!, page-14

It needs to be seamless, $5K can be input per day, this is fine, but the key is being able to add and withdraw cash easily on the card. For example put cash into the machine and onto your card, then easily withdraw the cash again from your card via the ticket machines. Punter, I guess, will not want money locked on their card, they need to be able to pull it out. If this is easy, I see no problem, it works this way already in some clubs. There is no reason why it should not be easy, the Government just wants to track who is gambling, how much they put in, how much they pulled out - plus also stop problem gamblers being exploited.

On another point, the Government is also potentially banning sports betting aps from advertising. This will potentially leave more funds in gamblers pockets to spend at pubs and casinos. This may be a benefit for the Star.