Online Betting exposed
No longer do people need to wade through clouds of smoke and suffer the noise and commotion of casinos to place their bets. Instead, more and more people are gambling online.
A recent survey reports that only 4% of Americans currently gamble using the Internet.
Interestingly, the survey results reveal that typical online gamblers are younger, more highly educated, more male, and more affluent than the general American population and the customers of brick-and-mortar casinos. The fact that online gambling is a new and developing trend is borne out by survey results that show that 70% of online gamblers state that they began this activity within the past two years.
When asked why they gamble online, almost half of the respondents cited “convenience” as the primary reason. Less than 10% stated that the main reason for their Internet gambling was the chance to win money.
The average online gambler is a college educated male under the age of 40, who makes more than $60,000 per year, plays poker and casino games roughly equally, and gambles over the Internet because that is easy and entertaining, not so much to make money.
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