Gaming Business. Means the current business conducted by Cantor Index Holdings, L.P. ("CIH") or a subsidiary thereof, which consists of financial spread betting and equity contracts for difference, and those activities described in clauses (i) through (iv) below that shall be conducted from time to time in the future by CIH or any of its subsidiaries controlled by CIH, directly or through its subsidiaries. Gaming Business shall also mean activities that the Cantor Parties may irrevocably designate in writing
... from time to time, primarily with individual customers, directly or indirectly, wherever located and however conducted, currently and in the future, that involve (i) receiving or negotiating bets or conducting pool betting operations or the provision of services in connection therewith; (ii) organizing or conducting gaming or the provision of services in connection therewith; (iii) organizing or 3 conducting the distribution of prizes by lot or chance or the provision of services in connection therewith; and (iv) activities similar or related to the foregoing activities, including without limitation activities commonly known as fantasy games, hypothetical or virtual betting and spread betting, contracts for differences, gambling, odds making, lotteries, gaming, wagering, staking, drawing or casting lots; provided, however, that Gaming Business shall also include, to the extent and only to the extent designated by the Cantor Parties separately and in writing, those activities that would be gaming activities except for the fact that they are not conducted with individual customers, directly or indirectly, to the extent to which they are part of, ancillary to or substantially connected with the activities described in clauses (i) and/or (ii) above; provided, further, that Gaming Business does not include a Multi-dealer Futures Business. For the purposes of this definition, "bet" means entering into a contract by which each party undertakes to pay or forfeit to the other money or other value if an issue, in doubt at the time of the contract, is determined in accordance with the other party's forecast; "gaming" means the playing of a game of chance for winnings in money or other value; and "game of chance" includes a game of chance and skill combined and a pretended "game of chance."
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