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Online Casinos Aren't Popular
 

The Norwegian Gambling Commission released some surprising results this week about the nation’s online casino gambling industry. The internet gamblers largely prefer the lotto as their internet gaming option of choice. Online casinos are extremely popular all over the European Union (and the world) but this sector of the internet gambling industry was actually the smallest sector in the breakdown of gambling preferences. Other types of online games factored into the equation included internet poker, sportsbetting, and mobile gambling.

The Norwegian government is largely attempting to seriously cutback on the availability of offshore online casino gambling in Norway. The nation operates a gambling monopoly through Norske Tipping and Norsk Rikstoto. These two companies dominate the land gambling and betting industry, but the online casinos and foreign gambling sites actually account for taking more than 80 percent of the nation’s internet gambling revenue. The other less than 20 percent is taken by the state monopolies.

The Gambling Commission’s data indicates that not only is online casino and itnenret gambling a male dominated pastime in Norway, but a mere 2 percent of the female population participates. Additionally, research indicates that a whopping 48 percent of Norwegian gamblers prefer the internet lotto. Online poker was the next most popular, followed by sports betting, and internet casinos brought up the tail end of the stats, with a mere 7 percent of the gambling population.

Also surprising though was the trend toward mobile phone gambling. The mobile online casinos are increasingly popular for the internet gamblers with 9 percent of the 244,000 gamblers in Norway showing a preference for using the mobile devices to gamble.