The rise of online gambling and betting

 

Meet the popular bookmaker who opts for Artificial Intelligence

 

Traditional betting houses have evolved over the years, adapting to new technologies, mainly the Internet for offering a multitude of options and facilities. Betting brands have increased all over the world, but we must know that not all of them operate legally. Currently, online bookmakers are more frequented than physical ones, due to the convenience and speed of accessing a wide variety of options and experiences with a couple of clicks. 

 

Users of digital casinos enjoy all the classic casino games in addition to the new online bets (Blackjack or 21, roulette, scratch cards, the popular slot machines, etc.) The more traditional games of chance are They have added slots with totally different experiences to those known so far.

 

Blackjack and roulette are two of the most popular games among online users. But, while roulette is a game entirely of chance, Blackjack requires a prior strategy and a good understanding of how it works to know when to stop. Artificial Intelligence learns the user's habits, contributing to a more responsible game. Are you more emotional or rational? Choose luck or reason and enjoy!

 

If you are a sports fan, you will also find online sports betting. Choose from the most popular sports to participate and bet on the best competitions. Despite the fact that soccer is the most followed sport in Latin America, boxing and baseball also have an important weight in the world of betting, especially in the Caribbean regions.

 

Another of the many advantages offered by an online casino is that you can play live and direct, having direct communication in real time with the dealer or the dealer, which you can see from your screen. This continuous feedback facilitates the game from home and gives the user extra confidence.

 

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"Gambling is the hero of the 21st century"

 

It is a Saturday like any other. At sunset time, a group of six teenagers gather at the door of a betting house. They make speculations, they comment on the state of the footballers who are about to start the game. One is on a roll scoring goals in the last three games, the captain arrives in extremis from injury. The starting goalkeeper is suspended and the visiting team barely thrashes away from home. Everything counts when it comes to betting .

 

The kids brag about their latest bets. "I put ten bucks for Jaime Mata to mark and the quota was 2." "I was about to score 0-3 man, the fee was 26 bucks and in the end I put 1-2". At his side, other people do not stop entering through the door, adolescents and adults. Some come out with the receipt of a bet. Others stay to watch the game.

 

Soccer as an ally

 

The fact that football is the usual backdrop in the world of online gambling is not accidental and follows a path that has been underway for three decades. In 2004, Betis became the first team in the Spanish First Division of soccer to wear a bookmaker, Globet, on its jersey. Something that did not provoke any kind of controversy or debate among the club's social mass, according to the sports journalist Pepe Elías, in charge of covering the Betic team in Mundo Deportivo .

 

Since then, more and more football clubs have signed up for these sponsorships in their sheepskin jacket, and all seasons except 13/14 and 14/15 have had at least one club with one of these operators on their kits .

 

Beyond the kits, the sponsorship of these betting houses and online casinos to football teams has also become popular without having to wear their logo on the shirt , "only" in some areas of the stadium, the website, the application club official and other locations for promotional purposes.

 

In the last full season, 18/19, this type of sponsorship occurred in nineteen of the twenty clubs in the Santander League . 95%. The only one that broke from this new rule was the Royal Society, which although it has never had a sponsorship of this type in its kit, it did have it at club level: Kirolbet , a Basque gaming operator that currently continues to sponsor others sport clubs.

 

The Real Sociedad also took an unprecedented step in this regard: in December 2018 it called its members to a consultation in which they voted on whether or not the club should accept future sponsorships from these types of companies. The “no” swept away 85% of the votes , however the communication department of the San Sebastian club told us that it was a proposal “that they were still assessing internally”. In other words, it was not binding. As of February 2020, the list of sponsors of the San Sebastian club still does not include any company directly related to the game, although in November 2019 it signed a sponsorship with GoodBall, a company that, although it does not operate as a bookmaker, does provide certain information on odds. Shortly after the signing, this sports information platform denied having any relationship with the world of gambling .

 

The Real Sociedad, the only club in the League without a bookmaker as a sponsor, asked its partners in a non-binding way if it should accept this type of sponsorship: it swept the "no"

Different supporters of the club, as well as spokesmen for the supporters club group, have declined our request to participate in this report, in some cases arguing that the board is still divided over this situation and they prefer "not to take a false step."

 

Without a tape recorder or camera in front of them, and under the condition that their names are not made public, some of these supporters admit to having voted the winning option and hope that the club will act accordingly.

 

“We do not want the game to continue normalizing, we have reached levels where the game is lived very aggressively to attract new players, where very young kids see it as a way to have fun and earn money, and that ends in gambling ”, Explains one of them with a speech highly similar to the rest.

 

Target: youth

 

It is precisely the youngest who are growing the most in the annual player statistics . And they do so, above all, in the field of sports betting, the sector that has most capitalized on the growth of gambling in recent years along with casinos, offline or online.

 

Bingo and poker, on the other hand, have lowered their relevance within the game. Poker, after the boom of the early decade. Bingo, as an entrenched trend since the crisis broke out. In total, almost one and a half million players, according to the records of the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling, in a country of forty-six million.

 

This boom in sports betting has a lot to do with online betting, a business that never closes, for which it is not necessary to leave the house - or even change plans, since it is on our phone - and for which it does not there are taboos : if playing in a public space could become something that embarrasses, with the apps of the bookmakers no one has to face that blush. However, it also has a lot to do with its opposite: physical bookmakers.

 

Although they depend on autonomous legislation, some cases are very similar. Madrileños and Valencianos, to give two examples, saw how casinos had to be located a certain number of kilometers from urban centers when gambling was regulated again in the eighties, with the Torrelodones casino and the Monte Picayo casino (in Puçol ) respectively.

 

That boom in live bets, of which are played during a match, such as who will score the next goal, how many corners will be whistled in the second half or with what result will be reached at halftime, are part of the explanation of how they have been transformed the bets.

 

The games are no longer destiny, the verification for ninety minutes of whether we have won or not. They are a process of continuous betting . "Now you can bet at any time and place from your mobile, and you will also always have the place to go to collect, as support or to go play with your friends," says Ángel.

 

This same spokesperson confirms that the average age of the player has been decreasing : "At first our client was the one who was already in the gaming halls, between 40 and 45 years old. A decade later, the profile has already dropped to between 25 and 35 years old ".

 

"The profile of the gambler has gone from 50 years of slot machines to twenty-somethings with gambling"

 

"I have seen how gamblers who come to rehab have gone from being fifty-year-olds on slot machines to kids who are not even twenty, sometimes not eighteen, addicted to sports betting." This phrase is from Julián Mompradé , who knows a lot about gambling: he fell into this addiction during his youth and lived with it until he was 63 years old.

 

“Before, the pace at which you could play was limited, it was set by the times of a slot machine or bingo. Now you can bet on a single game with practically unlimited money, whatever you have, and lose it in a few minutes.

 

“When someone starts therapy, they almost never start out of pleasure, on their own initiative. 99% are forced by the family. And they do it because there is a latent economic problem, but outside of money they do not usually consider that they have a problem with gambling ”. That changes as the sessions progress, and the addict usually ends up acknowledging the problem.

 

This explains that there are more and more cases of gamblers who are not only younger and younger, but also start therapy as addicts when less and less time has passed since they started playing. " Even minors come, who by law cannot play. And we cannot attend to them until they are of legal age . Adolescents arrive more and more, or kids of eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,".

 

Voices against the game

 

Despite the dramatic nature of Santiago's case, Bayta explains that it is not necessary to arrive at the diagnosed gambling problem to consider that there is a problem with gambling . “It's the same as with alcohol: you don't have to be drunk every day at ten in the morning to consider you have a problem with alcohol. If you are unable to have fun without drinking, or you commit recurring excesses when you consume it, such as triggering your aggressiveness or being too uninhibited; or other types of behavior… With gambling it is the same: if someone reaches the point of not enjoying sporting events if there are no bets involved, or is unable to not play and be aware of their bets, there may be a problem ”.

 

In the midst of this situation, some voices against the game have emerged. Those who cry out for the taking of measures from the administrations that slow down their progress, considering that it is harmful and that, although no one demands its prohibition, there are those who ask for provisions that make them retreat.

 

"We do not want gambling to be prohibited, we want measures to be taken such as a minimum distance between schools and gaming halls, or that municipal sports facilities and entities cannot be sponsored by these types of companies , because they lead to something very toxic and harmful. At the time, the same thing happened with brands of alcoholic beverages, to which advertising restrictions were placed, and nothing has happened, sports teams continue and these companies also ".

 

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