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Comprehensive Study About Online and Offline Gambling

MonkeyBet.com is a leading and premier casino, online poker and sports book gambling destination guide had made a study between online gambling and offline gambling. The comprehensive study had just wrapped up. It focus on online gambling and its perennial effect on the traditional offline and land based casinos like in Atlantic City and the famous Las Vegas casinos.

As a leading online casino, MonkeyBet has more than one hundred thousand player and gambler database. They conducted this study as part of their research in relation to creating their own physical casino. The tentative opening of the proposed casino is on 2008. This study has the edge over other studies because MonkeyBet actually knows which customers play and gamble. The problem with other studies that many people now just like to boost their own gambling experience. To avoid these mistake, MonkeyBbet actually uses its own database of customers and the facts and figures are assured to be accurate.

Some of the facts gathered are:

Players are more likely to try new games online as opposed to land based casinos. Seventy five percent of the respondents said that they tried playing online first before playing the same game at the casino. The respondents said that they are less intimidated in making a mistake at the table, ease in playing, lower minimum bets in online casinos and online casinos gives online instruction to its players.

Fifty eight percent of the respondents asked, said that because they tried it first in the online game they are now lured to try it at a casino. Forty nine percent of respondent gamblers stated that online gambling allows them to explore more complicated bets which in time, gives them a chance to play it on visiting destination casinos.

On the other hand, Sixty three percent of the respondents said that the number of their visits to destination casinos in locations like Las Vegas and Atlantic City have increased over the past two years by adding at least one more trip during this time period.

Ninety two percent of the respondents who had played poker in vacation destination casinos said that they would never have probably played it if they had not played it online first. SVP of Business Development for MonkeyBet.com, Jeff Fuller, said that they are confident about the results of their study. He noticed that the revenues of casino games such as Baccarat, Pai Gow poker, and Caribbean poker had exceeded the revenue percentage in the Strip.

As a whole the study shows that through online gaming, the popularity of land based casinos especially those vacation casino destination had increase.

 

Monday, 24. 2006
Brian Letendre