Promoting gambling games shall be punished with imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance, and fines. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and shall also be fined. According to the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China", anyone who gathers people to gamble, opens a casino or engages in gambling shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined. According to Article 4 of the "Interpretations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Gambling Cases", those who knowingly know that others are committing gambling criminal activities and provide them with direct assistance such as funds, computer networks, communications, expense settlements, etc. The crime of gambling is treated as a crime.

Online gambling not only has the social harm of traditional gambling: endangering social order, destroying stability and unity, affecting production, work and life, it is also a hotbed for theft, robbery, fraud, murder and other illegal crimes, and has relatively high Traditional gambling is more harmful to society.

In addition to being accompanied by illegal lending and illegal financial institutions transferring funds, online gambling also has the harmful effect of affecting the healthy development of the stock and futures markets. Bookmakers engaged in online gambling activities in stocks, futures and other financial securities markets, in order to gain profits, often artificially intervene in the stocks, futures and other financial securities markets, causing adverse trends or fluctuations, causing chaos, and seriously disrupting the country's normal financial order.

The boundary between the crime of gambling and general illegal activities:

The main difference between the two is: subjectively, whether it is for profit, and objectively whether it involves gathering people to gamble, opening casinos, or gambling karmic behavior. For those who have participated in gambling many times, but their winnings and losses are not large, and they do not rely on gambling as their livelihood or main source of income; or although the perpetrator provides casinos and gambling equipment, but he does not make any profit from it, he cannot be found guilty of gambling. If the circumstances are serious, they may be dealt with in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Public Security Administration Punishment Law.

Legal basis:

Article 70 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law" stipulates that anyone who provides conditions for gambling for the purpose of profit, or who participates in gambling with a large amount of money, shall be sentenced to five days in prison. Detention for not less than 10 days but not more than 500 yuan or a fine of not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, the offender shall be detained for not less than 10 days but not more than 15 days and fined not less than 500 yuan but not more than 3,000 yuan.

Extended information:

Article 303 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" The following persons shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined.

Whoever opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than 10 years, and shall also be fined.

Anyone who organizes citizens of the People's Republic of China to participate in overseas (overseas) gambling with huge amounts or other serious circumstances shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.