Will Facebook Users Become Gambling Junkies?
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Gambling constantly evolves. Currently, it comes in many forms.
For hundreds, or even thousands of years, people gambled in a variety of forms. Throwing dice, playing cards, even chess for money. Some ancient games, such as baccarat, are quickly gaining online popularity, while other traditional games have taken electronic forms such as online blackjack.
Moreover, many of these games are also popular at mobile casinos, readily accessible over the smartphones such as iPhones or Android-powered devices.
But there is a new devil coming up. It is well-known that sites such as Facebook or Zynga offer gambling to members, but not for money, as the US laws don’t allow for that. One of the new social blackjack games, for example, is 50 Cent’s Blackjack, which we recently wrote about in the casino gambling news.
Many gambling industry experts expect the laws to change and, as a result, see an influx of gambling money move to Facebook, where hundreds of millions of members can become instant social gamblers.
As of now, many of these social sites offer games for free such as free online blackjack and make money of players buying additional playing chips and all kinds of crazy digital gadgets to power their online presence up, just as in the Second Life.
But the real thrill is in the for-money-gambling. This is where the loot can be won and the players get real motivation. After all, gambling always was about playing for money and any paying to play for no real rewards is just too lame for us to swallow.
Sites such as Zynga make only a couple of dollars a month, on the average, from each member. On the other hand, real money gambling sites can rake in as much as $100 a month per user. Quite a big difference and Zynga is certainly wanting to put its teeth on that kind of revenue.