Personally I'd love to see Hill being turned over in this one for the reason above re them being happy top take any amount of cash from serial losers but quickly curtailing the bets of habitual winners.
I would agree that this guy’s chances aren’t probably as bad as made out but if he wins this would be a disaster both for the bookmakers and for the punters ultimately. Anything taken of the bookies bottom line will eventually be lumped onto the punter in some shape or other. In the unlikely event he wins the bookies will appeal this to the gates of hell.
On the continent you can be excluded by your own request from casinos by a self exclusion order. Your ID card will be made invalid and any licensed casino will turn you away. There’s an interesting French movie about this about a compulsive gambler who asks for himself to be barred for live after a particularly bad physical and financial beating only to regret it the next day and he spends the rest of the movie trying to catch a lottery cheat for the police to win his rights to gamble back.
The guy is a chancing knob but outside the gambling community he probably has a lot more sympathy than he merits. Gambling is stil viewed as socially and morally wrong in some quarters. Problem is that if a judge with thgat viewpoint gets the case then anything can happen especially if the judge knowing that
Hills will appeal decides to make a few waves in the initial case.