Let’s experiment. Let you try to walk in the shoes of any gambler at the end of the XX century. It seems a long time ago, while we are only talking about 20 years ago. So, you are a gambler and you like going to land-based casinos for betting your money on Blackjack, Poker, or maybe some of those multicoloured slot machines.
Between 1994 and 1996, thanks to the Free Trade and Processing Act, casinos from Antigua and Barbuda start offering their services on the World Wide Web. We have to wait until 1998 to see the first platforms related to online poker on the Internet.
Why would you give up with your land-based casinos, full of those poker tables, slot cabinets and a lot of wonderful entertainments, to choose a new way of betting? So let’s talk about this new way of betting. In the beginning, the network was not as powerful as nowadays, so you may have to wait for some minutes to know if you win or lose a game. People used to bet looking their dealer in the eyes, feeling the green felt under the fingers. Then they had to bet their money watching a screen, with no idea on who was on the other side of the computer.
Let’s say, moreover, that “old habits die hard”.
Why would online gambling grow up so much in order to overcome land-based casinos?
A lot of advertisements and commercials, we think. The truth is that we don’t know, but it happened. Let’s try to discover the reasons together. Keep reading!
Land-based casinos were born during the XIX century, but it was nothing new. Blackjack is something like 200 years older than the first land-based casino, while sports betting go back to the Roman Empire. We are talking about thousands of years of live betting.
What were the advantages of land-based casinos? Surely, being able to look directly in the eyes of the dealer, being able to understand the next move of someone by looking in his eyes. A good way to escape from your everyday life entering in a land of toys, full of lights, spectacular music and a lot more.
On the other hand, gamblers had to drive to the nearest casino. It was pride that not so many towns could claim. Gamblers had to find some free time in order to bet their money.
What did you do if someone told you that you no longer had to waste your time driving for entertaining yourself with casino games?
What did you do, as a gambler of the XIX century, if someone told you that you can bet your money on poker, blackjack, slot machines, everything you want, without going out of your house?
The answer is very easy. You would have accepted it.
Gamblers from all around the world accepted it because online gambling has a lot of advantages. It used to have also disadvantages 20 years ago. Now they are almost completely disappeared.
Today gambling is always on hand, so it also became a way to constantly earn money, nothing so different than trading online. Do you find hard seeing online gambling in this way? There are many facts and studies that prove this. The EU online gambling market is now growing at about 10% per year, as shown in the research of the European Gaming and betting association.The whole online gambling market is expected to grow to USD 127.3 billion by 2027, acctually a raise of 11.5% from 2020 to 2027.
It seems that from 1850, to the last decade on XX century nothing changed about online gambling. It is incredible thinking about how in only 20 years, everything has changed. We went from going into land-based casinos for betting to play casino games while sitting on the couch in our own house. Now there is something new! Mobile gambling is invading the market and it is the latest frontier on casinos software world.
After all, you always bring with you your smartphone. Are you ready to start betting wherever and whenever you are, or you are going?
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