General betting standard and general betting limited
Two different permissions with similar names. 'General Betting Standard' appears on 188 records, and it has three further variants — real event on 155, virtual event on 100, and one carrying no gaming machines on 10. 'General Betting Limited' appears on 536, the most common betting activity on the register by a distance.
Limited is the restricted one: it covers betting on a track, at an event, or in circumstances narrower than a general sportsbook. Standard is the permission a bookmaker taking bets on anything needs. The naming is the opposite of intuitive, and the word 'limited' is doing the work.
The real-event and virtual-event variants split by what is being bet on. Virtual events are computer-generated outcomes, and a licence for one does not authorise the other. The fourth variant is about the premises rather than the betting, and it is the scarcest betting permission on the register.
Which is where it goes wrong. The two names get treated as a tier, as though Limited were an entry level on the way to Standard. They are different scopes, not different grades.
What to do with it. Match the activity against what the site actually offers. A sportsbook taking bets on real fixtures needs a Standard real-event permission, and nothing else on this list substitutes for it.
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