Under rules introduced by the Gambling Commission in October to combat problem gambling, online customers can tell a bookmaker they want to take between 24 hours and six months off from gambling while keeping their account open.
But campaigners for further measures to combat problem gambling said the settlement was evidence that Gala Coral had not learned from previous failings.
"MasterCard will continue to work aggressively with all appropriate parties to combat illegal Internet gambling," it said.
The cross-promotional effort is also aided, tremendously, by Viacom, the parent company of both combat leagues, which has gambled big on MMA and kickboxing for years.
Ending America's "combat mission" is a gamble and gambles can be lost.
It also requires companies seeking a license to employ safeguards that supporters say would do a great deal to prevent minors from gaining access to gambling sites and help combat compulsive gambling.
In 2000 the ICC set up the Anti-Corruption Unit (renamed the Anti-Corruption Unin and Security Unit in 2003) to combat the growing threat of illegal gambling and match fixing.
Owen Baily, a reformed gambling addict who now runs the Gambling Centre, which helps combat addiction, said the "machines suck money out of communities, families and their children.
His run as commander coincided with the "surge" of American combat forces into Baghdad, in what amounted to a last, desperate gamble to bring the country under control.
The commission, created in 2001 to consolidate earlier efforts to combat organized crime in the wholesale food markets, commercial garbage hauling and shipboard gambling, has long collected personal information about those working in the markets.
