31In that regard, as is apparent from paragraphs 29 and 30 of the judgment in Town & County Factors, the Court has held that the interpretation which it adopted in its judgment in Glawe did not apply to a service such as that at issue in the case which gave rise to the judgment in Town & County Factors. While the gaming machines in question in the case which gave rise to the judgment in Glawe were characterised by the fact that, in accordance with mandatory statutory provisions, they were set in such a way that a certain percentage of the players’ stakes was paid out to them as winnings and those stakes were kept technically and physically separate from the stakes which the operator could actually take for itself, the competition at issue in the case which gave rise to the judgment in Town & County Factors did not display any of those features, so that the organiser of that type of competition had freely at its disposal the full amount of the entry fees received.
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