WEB GAMBLING
Poker playing is driving a gambling craze among today's tweens and teens. The game's newfound glamour is due, in large part, to the immensely popular World Poker Tour TV show with its high stakes and celebrity players. Some experts worry that this increase in youth poker playing could lead to different forms of gambling and possibly compulsive gambling later in life.
Technically savvy young people are turning increasingly to Internet gambling sites, which are easy, convenient and anonymous. In a 2005 Media Awareness Network (MNet) survey of students' Internet habits, 23 per cent of male students in Grades 10 and 11 report having visited a gambling site in the past school year. Most gambling sites only require a major credit card, which many university and even high school students possess.
Although Internet gambling by minors is illegal in Canadian casinos and the United States, enforcement can be difficult. Young people often conceal their age and location when registering on Internet gaming sites. In a 2002 study of 100 betting sites, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission found that 20 per cent of the sites posted no warning about age restrictions and most had no effective mechanisms to prevent minors from entering.
Kids today don't have to look far to find Internet gambling sites. Banner ads and pop-ups for casinos are everywhere on the Web, and often appear on sites popular with teens and even younger children. Many kids use sports betting sites where weekly winners are ranked and earn prizes. These sites are not considered to be hosting 'real' gambling activities because visitors don't play for cash. Nevertheless, kids learn how to bet on these sites, which also often link to online casinos.
"Neopets”an immensely popular site with pre-teens in Canada, allows visitors to create pets and then collect 'Neopoints' to spend on them. The games area offers a section called 'luck / chance' where kids can play gambling-based games such as 'Neopoker,' 'JubJub Blackjack' and 'Diceroo.' However the famous web engineslike google and yahoo have come up with the decision that they are not going to do advertisements for web gambling (read more on that in the link web engines gambling).
Why would a site aimed at eight- to twelve-year-old promote gambling style games? The answer is "grooming." The betting industry is one of the Web's biggest money-makers, and predictions are that Internet gambling will increase tenfold over the next few years. Grooming activities help create a generation of kids who find gambling an attractive and familiar online activity. (Want to know more about web gambling check out the link no tax web gambling)
There are well over 1400 gambling sites offering bettors the oportunity to wager their favorite type of gambling on the Internet. These ‘books’ are generating billions of dollars in bets annually. Bets are taken in all types of gambling, from sports betting such as baseball, football and horse racing to casino games including online poker, which is tremendously popular. It has been estimated that U.S. citizens do over 60% of online gambling.
In some cases…yes. There are a number of countries that issue online gambling site licenses for their own citizens’ use and entertainment. In the US, politicians have tried to stop Internet betting through legislation, but seemed more concerned with concentrating their political efforts on hindering the casinos themselves rather than the individual gamblers involved. For now and forever betting on the internet will be here to stay.(Want to know congress response to web gambling click on Congress hits web gambling)
Many Internet casinos will use debit or credit cards to allow you to set up accounts and will use the same methods of returning your winnings to you. However, sometimes this money return will only be up to the amount of your original deposit and any balance will come by electronic money transfer, which will carry a fee charged to you. It would be prudent to check out the cash payout methods of any gambling site that you may choose to use before you begin gambling. Internet betting can be an exciting way to fulfill your online gambling urges. With the help of online bookmakers it has easy to do online betting. Just be sure to do your homework upfront, start with small bets and stick with sites you have found to be reputable!