Germany Online Gambling Community Swells
Eins, zwei drei… Count to 2.2 million and you have the number of Germans who play and gamble online on a regular basis.
The German Forsa research group’s study found that the number of Germans who gamble regularly online is beyond anyone’s expectations.
The options they are presented are many and varied. Lotto draws 700,000 Germans to the Internet; online poker is a pastime hobby for 430,000 others; the Bundesliga football matches draw sports bets from half a million Germans.
As for the volume in Euros, the betting market crosses the 2 billion Euro mark, at 2.2 billion Euros annually bet and wagered online.
The survey, titled “The German Betting Market in Transition: Enormous Growth or Return to the Old Model?” predicts this sum to more than double and reach 5 billion Euros by the year 2010. Forsa makes no prediction as to the number of gamblers taking part in the gambling activities.
Football bets
Germans have the opportunity these days to bet on their national football team, which is competing at the Euro 2008 football championship. The German team has already beat Poland in its opening match, raising not only the expectations from it, but the betting action as well.
While the legal status is in an ongoing process of being resolved, protected on the one hand by the German states and demanded looser restrictions by the European Union, it thrives as it never has before.
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