{"id":29188,"date":"2025-07-31T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/thailand-expands-legal-betting-options-are-esports-up-next\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:55:22","slug":"thailand-expands-legal-betting-options-are-esports-up-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/thailand-expands-legal-betting-options-are-esports-up-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand expands legal betting options, are esports up next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand has officially legalized poker betting, marking an important step towards esports betting legality. On July 29, 2025, the Sports Authority of Thailand officially recognized poker as a competitive sport under the government\u2019s official definition. This reclassification legalizes poker as a betting activity under Thai law&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/thailand-expands-legal-betting-options-are-esports-up-next\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand has officially legalized poker betting, marking an important step towards esports betting legality. On July 29, 2025, the Sports Authority of Thailand officially recognized poker as a competitive sport under the government\u2019s official definition. This reclassification legalizes poker as a betting activity under Thai law&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}