What do you think about Valve's closure of gambling sites?

I'm a semi-professional gambler (texas hold em), and I think this is a good thing. Underage gambling is dangerous and needs to be snuffed out.

Serves 'em right! :D

Valve only does good things when legally pressured to

My stepbrother lost hundreds gambling on csgo, so I'm glad he and other kids no longer can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1F5idOs0A

Does Faze Clan own CSGO Wild ? 
In this part 3 we look at skype and twitter chats between faze members and web designers. Faze members clearly state that Faze Banks and Faze Rain own csgowild.com
In part 2 of Faze Clan CSGO Wild Connection, we look at new evidence that connects the two business entities. The evidence suggests that Faze Clan are indeed the alleged owners of CSGOwild.com. 
One of the owners of Faze: Faze Banks was the first one to order designs for his new site csgowild.com
We also saw PhantomL0rd owns csgo shuffle and he talks about csgo wild is owned by faze clan in the chat.

Reminder that individual people have made over $10 million USD each from these sites on average.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpKSuVVif4 How the %ages were rigged not just for the Owners but for preferred players (for e.g. Twitch subs)

I don't really care for CS so it don't matter to me. I think you are wrong to say that CS:GO will die without Gambling. Counter-Strike has been around for a long time. It isn't gonna die anytime soon.

Its gonna be a major blow to csgo in general.
But this gambling and betting bullshit had to end at some point.

I lost hundreds of euros on betting last 18 months. I stopped 14 days ago and this will help me overcoming an addiction.
Best news of the day.
(Edit: I did bet skins on fano and lounge and bought my skins on opskins.)

Will it hurt the lower tier CS GO tournaments/players? Yes, I'm sure it will. Honestly though, watching a lot of those teams play, I often feel like match-fixing or throws are sometimes a big issue there because more money can be made off a throw than on a win in those tournaments.

Am I glad Valve is shutting these sites down? Absolutely! I don't think kids should be gambling. Skins have a cash value. I used to gamble skins, and sell skins for cash, so I completely understand why people enjoy doing it. My concern is with kids developing poor decision making or possibly gambling addictions. I stopped betting skins, and now I just bet real money instead every once in a while. So, for those ADULTS who still want to bet on games, there are plenty of real money websites that you can still do that on (unless you live in the U.S. then online gambling is banned, and you're S.O.L.).

If it leads to unfair practices, addiction, targeting children and/or vulnerable people, then yes, I think it should be banned.

oh no! the parasites lost their website! so sad /s