There is no evidence that the Chicago study attempted to consider whether the estimated costs and prevalence rates borrowed from other studies were appropriate to Chicago.

In addition, the authors do not appear to have tried to separate real costs from transfer costs, nor did they try to estimate aggregate pathological gambling costs rather than incremental costs due to pathological gambling.

In a study that strays from traditional economic impact analysis, Grinols and Omorov attempted to determine, using benefit-cost analysis, whether improved access to casino gambling offsets the externality or spillover costs associated with pathological gambling.

Their study takes a unique approach to the estimation of the net economic effects of gambling. Instead of focusing on a particular geographic area, as most economic impact studies do, they attempted to estimate the effect of increasing gambling accessibility nationwide.

They define externality costs as criminal justice system costs, social service costs, and costs due to lost productivity.

In order to estimate the per capita social costs due to pathological gambling, they relied on the annual cost estimates per pathological gambler and prevalence rates for pathological gambling computed in earlier studies Goodman, ; Lorenz et al.

They do not, however, further the understanding of what constitutes the costs of pathological gambling or the magnitude of these costs. Instead, Grinols and Omorov relied on the work done by others to assign dollar values to the externalities and used these estimates without any attempt to determine whether the estimates were appropriate for the task at hand.

In a study that attempted to identify the benefits and costs associated with gambling, Madden looked at the socioeconomic costs of gambling in South Dakota. The analysis—a simple time series analysis of data for identified benefits and costs—represents one of the first attempts to determine whether some of the alleged costs associated with pathological and problem gambling were appearing in communities that were adopting or expanding legalized gambling.

Madden does not specifically consider the costs of pathological and problem gambling but does analyze trends in factors that often are cited as being affected by such gambling, including the number of recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the number of families receiving food stamps, the number of child abuse and neglect cases, the number of child support cases, the number of divorce filings, the percentage of property taxes that are not collected, the number of bankruptcy filings, the number of small claims filings, and the number of real estate foreclosures.

This study raises another potentially difficult problem with gambling studies. When gambling is introduced to an area, there is a natural temptation to do simple before-and-after comparisons and to attribute positive or negative differences to the introduction of gambling.

In other words, the effects of gambling are deemed to be any changes that have occurred since gambling was introduced. But this is not necessarily true. For example, if per capita income is found to be higher after gambling was introduced, is the rise in income attributable to gambling?

Perhaps it is, but perhaps not. Per capita incomes have typically been rising in the United States, so perhaps some of the gain is due simply to general economic growth. Perhaps other things happened in the community that would increase per capita income.

During the same period in which per capita incomes were found to rise in the community in which gambling was introduced, per capita incomes may well have also risen in communities in which gambling was not introduced.

Similarly, if personal bankruptcies increased following the introduction of gambling, the analyst would also need to know what the trend in personal bankruptcies was elsewhere and during the same time period before attributing the increase to increased gambling availability.

A Florida study of the effects of casino gambling represents an improvement in the identification and estimation of the benefits and costs of pathological and problem gambling Florida Office of Planning and Budgeting, Its derivation of the net positive benefits considered the direct and indirect effects that casinos will have on the state economy, carefully considering expenditure substitution and leakage to ensure that the focus is on additional spending associated with the casino and not some measure of gross economic activity.

Rather than accept the Volberg estimate without question, the researchers examined circumstances specific to Florida to ensure that the estimates were appropriate. This was accomplished by estimating the incarceration, supervision, and new prison construction costs that would be attributable to problem gambler criminal incidents, using Florida Department of Corrections data.

These estimates indicated that Volberg's annual societal cost figures were reasonable to use for estimating potential impacts in Florida. In order to determine the increase in pathological and problem gamblers that would result from casino gambling, the study also relied on estimates generated from three different sources, rather than adopting without question a prevalence rate generated for a different single community.

The three estimates are based on: 1 the projected market share that casinos would command in the legalized gambling market in the state, 2 a number derived from experiential data provided by the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling, and 3 a figure based on information provided by the National Council on Compulsive Gambling.

The Florida study cost estimation methodology is noteworthy because, although the study relied on per gambler estimates calculated for another jurisdiction, it first assessed the appropriateness of applying that estimate to Florida.

In addition, the study used three prevalence estimates derived from three communities rather than relying on a single generic estimated prevalence rate. Taken together, the per pathological gambler cost estimate and the three prevalence estimates enabled the analysts to provide a range of costs attributable to pathological gamblers if casinos were approved in Florida.

Unfortunately, the study was based on several key but untested assumptions that may have had the effect of overestimating costs associated with pathological and problem gambling and minimizing the benefits of casino gambling.

Specifically, the researchers advance a conservative estimate of new tourism and also assumed that Florida would experience substantial substitution effects in the food and recreation industries if casino gambling were approved. Closer examination also reveals that, in relying on the Volberg cost to society estimate per pathological or problem gambler, the state adopted her reliance on the estimate by Lesieur and Klien that two out of three pathological or problem gamblers become incarcerated or otherwise impose substantial criminal justice costs—an assumption not independently tested.

A significant improvement in the methodology used to identify and estimate the social costs of gambling, and specifically pathological and problem gambling, is found in a study conducted in Australia Dickerson et al.

This study apparently is one of the first studies to perform a comprehensive and carefully thought-out economic impact analysis of gambling. The survey provides extensive information about patterns of gambling in New South Wales, attitudes toward gambling, gambling preferences, and information relating to the negative effects associated with problem gambling, among other things.

The study details the approach taken to estimate the prevalence of problem gambling. Clearly, the researchers carefully considered the appropriateness of their estimate for the subject community, not choosing to rely on estimates developed elsewhere. To identify the costs associated with problem gambling, the researchers used information from their survey and from their own clinical databases.

Once the identification phase was completed, they used the following methodology to place a dollar value on as many of the costs as they could pp. The study was able to "cost out" a number of factors associated with pathological gambling. The process used to arrive at the productivity loss estimate shows the care the researchers used as they developed their cost estimates.

They looked at data from both the survey and the clinics to identify employment-related costs and the extent to which problem gamblers were affected. On the basis of these data, the productivity loss estimate was derived using an assumption that one hour per week was lost per problem gambler, an estimate of the number of problem gamblers affected, the average earnings earned, and the percentage of individuals in the workplace versus the home.

The authors also were careful to underscore how sensitive the estimate is to the assumption regarding average time lost at work. A second factor associated with problem gambling in the study is legal costs.

Although an estimate is included for family and individual costs, the researchers note that many of the family-related effects identified do not lend themselves to quantification because it would involve a very subjective process.

As a result, only two family and individual effects are given a dollar value: the costs of divorce proceedings and acute treatment costs. The methodology used by the researchers to reach this estimate of net positive effect involved the use of input-output multipliers, carefully adjusted for substitution of expenditures and leakage.

It is noted that the costs amount to 1. However, the authors are quick to note that they use conservative costing assumptions and that a number of the effects identified are not assigned dollar values.

The net economic benefit is therefore likely to be overstated. A second study that makes a significant contribution to the literature on the economic impacts of gambling is one that identifies and quantifies the social costs of gambling in the state of Wisconsin Thompson et al.

The authors point out that there is little objective information about the benefits and costs associated with gambling, much less the costs of pathological and problem gambling, but that many studies have offered opinions about the effects such gambling has on society.

The approach taken by these researchers to arrive at estimates of the costs of pathological and problem gambling involved using a survey instrument to get information from serious problem gamblers in Wisconsin Thompson et al.

They distributed questionnaires to members of Gamblers Anonymous chapters and received 98 completed surveys.

The questionnaires provided the researchers with demographic data on the respondents, gambling histories, information about some of the games they played, volume of gambling activity and the source of funds, and the consequences of gambling.

The authors used the information obtained from the survey to attempt to answer the following questions: 1 How much does one serious problem gambler cost society?

To answer these questions, they used information from their survey as well as information provided by earlier research on the costs of problem gambling. They chose to focus on employment costs, bad debts and civil court costs, thefts and criminal justice system costs, therapy costs, and welfare costs.

They calculated the costs for all problem gamblers in the state and for a subset of problem gamblers who could be associated with the state's American Indian casinos.

Employment costs included both the annual cost of working hours lost due to gambling plus the unemployment compensation attributable to gambling. Estimates of the loss in productivity due to gambling were based on how many hours of work the gambler lost due to unemployment.

The researchers chose to use this measure rather than attempt to estimate the loss of productivity on the job, which they thought involved too much subjectivity. Bad debts were calculated by focusing on the debt burden of the problem gamblers in the study who were involved in bankruptcy court proceedings.

Thompson et al. In reality, it is likely that many problem gamblers will ultimately pay little of their debts. These estimates were combined with the bad debt estimates to provide the estimates for the annual total bad debt and theft-related costs per gambler.

Even this study, however, is not without serious flaws and often counts as benefits things that would properly have been considered transfers.

Nevertheless, this study is an important improvement over many previous ones. argue that their estimates of the social costs of problem gambling are conservative but realistic, although others have suggested the estimates are too high see Walker and Barnett, point out that the calculations are based on information obtained from the survey of problem gamblers and other outside sources.

In addition, they are careful to identify the assumptions and methodology used in the calculations, something most previous studies failed to do. The researchers underscore the intentional conservatism of their analysis Thompson et al. We wish the information we present to be useful for policy makers, so we have carefully avoided adding numbers into the formula where we felt that we could not reasonably make good assumptions and good estimates of the costs.

Nonetheless, we suspect that the areas not considered do represent social costs, and these may be revealed in more refined studies in the future. Some areas where costs must exist, but were not considered, include the lower productivity on the job, family disorganization, and bad debts by those who do not declare bankruptcy.

Because they did not have sufficient information themselves to make a reasonable estimate, they chose to not make one. Despite the recent improvements made in the estimation of the benefits and costs of gambling, this area of inquiry is still in its infancy. A very few studies have recently made large strides over the contributions of earlier studies, which generally focused only on the positive economic benefits or provided descriptions of the cost factors associated with pathological and problem gambling, but did not attempt to estimate the costs of gambling, much less the costs of pathological and problem gambling.

Still, benefit-cost analysis of pathological and problem gambling remains undeveloped. In most of the impact analyses of gambling and of pathological and problem gambling, the methods used are so inadequate as to invalidate the conclusions. Researchers in this area have struggled with the absence of systematic data that could inform their analysis and consequently have substituted assumptions for the missing data.

The assumptions adopted for specific studies were rarely examined or tested to ensure they were appropriate for the specific research being conducted. There is always the risk that such assumptions and resulting estimates may reflect the bias of the analyst rather than the best-informed judgment.

Critical estimates have been frequently taken from one study and haphazardly applied in different circumstances. Often, the costs and benefits were not properly identified so that things that should have been counted as costs or benefits were omitted and other things that should have been omitted were counted.

Even when these limitations were recognized by the authors, they were rarely acknowledged. Clearly there continues to be a need for more objective and extensive analysis of the economic impact that gambling has on the economy.

Although the methodology to estimate the net positive effects is fairly well developed, substantial work needs to be done on the cost side. It is especially important to focus on the effects that are associated with problem gambling.

The task will not be easy and the effort will be costly and time-consuming. The Australian and Wisconsin research studies have set the stage for others by outlining the process that needs to be followed and by showing how such studies should proceed.

These studies do have their limitations, however. For example, more attention could have been focused on ensuring that the costs being estimated are real costs and not just transfers. But they provide a framework so that others can replicate their findings and to advance knowledge about the costs of problem gambling.

Other important issues remain unexplored. One issue is the question of how important the problem gambler is to the gambling industry's financial health.

A casual look at the casino industry suggests that this is an industry with high fixed costs and very low marginal costs to serve an additional patron. If that is indeed the industry's cost structure, then very little additional revenue can result in substantial increases in profits.

By the same token, a small decrease in revenue can result in a substantial decrease in profits. Thus, even if problem gambling proves not to be very prevalent in aggregate terms, it could still have a substantial influence on industry profits.

Another unexplored issue is to what degree the findings on the economic impact of casino gambling apply to other forms of gambling. As this chapter indicates, most of the research deals with casinos. We know little about the economic impact of other forms of gambling. Finally, few of the studies on the economic impact of gambling to date have appeared in peer-reviewed publications.

Most have appeared as reports, chapters in books, or proceedings at conferences, and those few that have been subject to peer review have, for the most part, been descriptive pieces.

As this research evolves, it should be subjected to peer review to help ensure that it indeed is advancing the body of knowledge.

The committee recognizes that the possibility of benefits deriving from pathological gambling are only theoretical and are neither described in the literature nor supported empirically. The committee expresses special thanks to Lia Nower for her synthesis and written presentation of literature pertaining to the social costs of pathological gambling to individuals, families, communities, and society.

The committee thanks Kurt Zorn for his written synthesis, analysis, and presentation of the literature in the remainder of this chapter. The category of transfer is often referred to as pecuniary in the economics literature. The Indiana Gaming Commission used input-output models to compare and evaluate the competing applications for riverboat gambling licenses.

The committee thanks Rina Gupta for her investigation and written summary of state-level lottery and gambling commission reports. Because there is no specific multiplier for the gambling industry, the entertainment and recreation sector multiplier often is used as a proxy because gambling is contained in this Census Bureau category.

Hewings et al. The authors were careful to point out that their analysis dealt only with the benefit side of the equation. Problem gambling has been linked to these factors, and one would expect problem gambling to be on the rise in South Dakota due to the spread of legalized gambling.

Therefore a worsening in one or more of these factors may suggest that at least part of the costs are due to problem gambling. The reason for a lack of precision regarding whether this indeed is the first study of its type is attributable to information provided in another study, Study Concerning the Effects of Legalized Gambling on the Citizens of the State of Connecticut report prepared for the Division of Special Revenue, Department of Revenue Services, State of Connecticut, June This study refers to five noteworthy studies that have been conducted in this area: a study in Quebec, a study in Germany, a study in Illinois, a study in Australia, and a study in Wisconsin.

Only the last two studies were obtained by the committee, leading to uncertainty as to whether the Australian study is the first or one of the first studies to undertake this approach to the estimation of pathological gambling costs.

Because this study was conducted in Australia, the monetary amounts presumably are in Australian dollars.

The acute treatment incidence was based on reported suicide attempts, taken from the clinical database. The authors are quick to note that this estimate does not include any additional costs that may be incurred due to the need for additional services in the future.

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Show details National Research Council US Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of Pathological Gambling. Contents Hardcopy Version at National Academies Press. Search term. Costs to Individuals 2 As discussed in Chapter 2 , the definition of pathological gambling includes adverse consequences to the individual, such as involvement in crime, financial difficulties, and disruptions of interpersonal relations.

Financial Problems and Crime Financial losses pose the most immediate and compelling cost to the gambler in the throes of his or her disorder.

Issues and Challenges in Benefit-Cost Analyses of Gambling 3 A wide variety of economic techniques is available to assess the effects of new or expanded gambling activities.

Real Versus Transfer Effects One of the biggest stumbling blocks in economic impact analysis is determining which effects are real and which are merely transfers. Direct and Indirect Effects A casino will have both direct and indirect effects on an area's income and jobs.

Tangible and Intangible Effects Both the direct and the indirect effects mentioned above are tangible, because they result in measurably more jobs and additional income being generated in the local economy.

Defining the Frame of Reference A central issue critical to all economic impact studies is the frame of reference for the analysis McMillen, Identifying and Measuring Costs: An Example of Unpaid Debt When one measures the economic effects of pathological and problem gambling Lesieur, , , , financial costs such as debt, insurance, medical, work-related, and criminal justice costs are fairly easy to measure.

Assessment of Studies Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Gambling 6 Although there are studies that purport to investigate the economic effects of gambling, few show the careful, thorough efforts that are needed to estimate the actual net effects of gambling on society, and therefore few have made a real contribution to understanding these issues e.

Gross Impact Studies Gross impact studies focus on a single aspect of economic effect. Descriptive Studies A second set of studies generally emphasizes description over analysis. Balanced Measurement Studies Balanced measurement studies encompass a variety of economic impact analysis studies.

Chicago Study This study assessed the effects that additional pathological gamblers would have on Chicago with the introduction of casino gambling. National Assessment In a study that strays from traditional economic impact analysis, Grinols and Omorov attempted to determine, using benefit-cost analysis, whether improved access to casino gambling offsets the externality or spillover costs associated with pathological gambling.

South Dakota Study In a study that attempted to identify the benefits and costs associated with gambling, Madden looked at the socioeconomic costs of gambling in South Dakota.

Florida Study A Florida study of the effects of casino gambling represents an improvement in the identification and estimation of the benefits and costs of pathological and problem gambling Florida Office of Planning and Budgeting, Australian Study A significant improvement in the methodology used to identify and estimate the social costs of gambling, and specifically pathological and problem gambling, is found in a study conducted in Australia Dickerson et al.

Personal costs, which involve a transfer of money between different sectors of the economy, without impinging on economic activity such as the stock of debts owed by gamblers , are not included. prevalence was estimated either from the survey results or, where more appropriate, from the clinical databases available.

the team's professional judgment was used to decide whether the survey results or incidence from clinical databases were used as the basis for costings. the incidence of each impact was converted to annual cases per annum for the [New South Wales] adult population.

costing assumptions were then sourced or estimated for each impact and applied to the prevalence data. It should be added that we have been conservative in our costing assumptions, where data on which to base assumptions [have] not been readily available.

Wisconsin Study A second study that makes a significant contribution to the literature on the economic impacts of gambling is one that identifies and quantifies the social costs of gambling in the state of Wisconsin Thompson et al.

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New York: Harper Torchbooks. Lorenz, V. Politzer, and R. Yaffee Social casino games, which are mostly free-to-play versions of online casino games, are also enjoying widespread popularity. They offer the same user experience and gameplay as standard online casino games, but using a freemium model.

Social casino games give users free daily bonus credits — e. When the player has run out of their daily bonus, they are unable to keep playing unless they pay for more credits. These games may be integrated in social media, or published as standalone apps. Zynga, publisher of the hit social game Words with Friends, also has a line of social casino games that includes poker and slots.

The two prime motivators for playing social casino games are entertainment and socialization. Users like the fun and novelty of the experience, especially when it comes to connecting with other players via chat during gameplay.

Another crucial aspect of social casino games that motivates players to stick to their device is the competitive element. Whereas in standard casino games like slots, roulette, blackjack, or poker, players wager real money with the possibility of winning more of the same, in social casino games there is no option to withdraw, even when players pay for additional credits in-game.

There is no prize or jackpot: when players win, they receive additional spins or chips to play with. As we mentioned, social games are monetized through in-app purchases — players can pay cash to extend their playing sessions. Many social casino operators use this as an opportunity for upselling.

For example, players can be given the option to pay a certain amount for a certain number of credits — e. This makes the games freemium: free-to-play with the option of pay-to-play.

Users might pick the game up on a free-to-play basis and then decide to pay to keep the fun going. This is a very simple way for game developers to monetize on the human tendency to pursue instant gratification.

Social casino games often allow for increased player interaction, something that is growing in appeal in the increasingly connected digital age. Players search out both their friends and their rivals and develop strategies against each other by deriving lessons from their playing histories together.

The social element is critical. It is one of the most in-demand aspects of contemporary online life, with internet users becoming more and more aware that sometimes the world wide web can create as much isolation as it does connection.

As social gaming is primarily a method of connecting with other internet users, one big lesson that operators can take away from studying the phenomenon is that players respond very positively to enhanced sociability.

This insight is confirmed by the explosion in popularity of live dealer games , where players can chat and connect with other players, as well as interacting with a dealer. The process of signing up and making a real-money deposit on an online casino can be intimidating, and social casino games provide a nearly identical entertainment experience without the same level of commitment.

This could potentially be used as a form of cross-selling to drive social gamers towards real-money online casinos. Social casino gaming also has a particular appeal in markets where online casino gambling is prohibited by law.

In Australia, for example, major iGaming operators offer modified versions of their online casinos — minus withdrawals to mimic the legal social casino gaming experience. This allows them to legally generate revenues in a closed market without having to build a product from scratch.

In a report on social gaming, the United Kingdom Gambling Commission UKGC came to the conclusion that social gaming does not pose any significant societal risk regarding harmful behaviors commonly associated with gambling such as problem gambling and underage gambling.

The UKGC made it clear in a statement that social casino games would not be subject to regulation, provided operators demonstrated social responsibility. The most commonly-cited demographic profile of a social casino gamer is a female in her mids.

This distribution mimics that of gambling , where high rollers account for a massive portion of the revenues. Revenues from social casino gaming have been growing steadily for over half a decade. Boosted by lockdowns, in social gaming raked in around half a billion dollars more than expected.

Projections for suggest a minor GGR decline before a resumption of growth in , but the return of lockdowns in late might reveal these estimates to be conservative.

The second biggest market for social gaming is Oceania, with Australia alone experiencing a 4.

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Verify this and you will be logged in and ready to. The added bonus of registering with e-mail is that you have no pre-saved payment method and can not make purchases by accident, unlike the other methods. Registering your account with your Apple ID may be unavoidable if you have downloaded the app on your iPhone or iPad.

Registering with your Apple account makes it easy to spend money on a social casino site. Try to avoid it if you can. Being linked to your apple account is the quickest and easiest way for the social casino to manage any purchases you want to make.

If you can avoid this method and make it more difficult to purchase credits, you may find you will save money in the long term. Playing with Facebook is an easy log-in option and in this day and age, I expect we are all using a Facebook login for something or another on the internet. The one thing we will be all too aware of is how our activity or information may be monitored, collected, and used.

Expect to see lots of adverts popping up on your newsfeed the minute you register a social casino account with Facebook.

Expect your Facebook and Instagram news feeds to contain little more than casino and gambling ads for the foreseeable future if you use the Facebook registration method. It is a common misconception that social casino is entirely free to play. With desire to play the games and players getting hooked on the action, there is the option to pay to play.

I took a look at ho much it can cost to play social casino games. Yes they do. Consider the fact that whilst you can spend a lot of money playing these games, and the fact that you can not win money back and make a profit, tey are a form of entertainment, that when played in a controlled manner, will cost less than playing real money slots in the long run anyway.

Real slots are all set up for you to lose money and the chances are that your losses on real money casino would far outweigh even the most enthusiastic social casino cost.

The hard and fast answer as to whether you can win real money at Social casino play is a firm, 'No'. Social casino games are there for entertainment purposes and can be played entirely for free.

By the same token, there is no chance of winning real money at a social casino. Social casino play can be totally free if you do not make in app purchases.

by the same token, even if you do buy in, you can not win real money or profit from play. High 5 Gaming are a long-established game provider to many real money online casinos, but also have an extensive network of social gaming apps and sites available for general play legally in the US.

Take a look at the High 5 Social Casino Review. I spent a day getting to grips with the different games, levels, rewards, packages and so much more. There is a ton of stuff going on, and the interactivity is far greater than a real casino, so it is worth taking a little tour of the review to see what will be in store and what to expect when you visit High 5.

Social casino play is legal in the US as it is not classified as gambling due to no wagers being placed, no money available to win and purchases made for entertainment purposes only.

Whilst online casino play is not permitted in many US states, Social Casino games are available everywhere providing access to US players for many online slots being played for entertainment purposes only. If you love playing casino slots, and want to play for free from home or on the go, then Social casino may just be what you are looking for, keeping in mind that you will never be winning money or recouping any costs associated with buying additional credits to those that are awarded freely on an hourly or daily basis.

Updated: Jan 28, No longer do you have to go down to the brick-and-mortar casino to sit at a blackjack or roulette table to get the real casino experience and win real money. Thanks to online casinos and the introduction of real live Updated: Jan 30, Online casino games continue to become more and more popular in the US.

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What it is, how it differs from the normal casino, along with how and where you can play. Social casino is legally available in all states, but real money online casino is only available in limited states. Social Casino comprises of games associated with casino play that can be played online or in an app, generally through social networks like Facebook.

Games are played for free, with purchase options to try to climb leaderboards and ladders of success in games like slots, roulette, or blackjack.

Social casinos have been around for as long as gaming apps have been available in places like Facebook, offering free to play games with in-game purchase options to boost balances or buy special features. So whilst they are primarily free to play, credit can quickly run out.

There are usually regular top-ups of gaming credits, on an hourly or daily basis to keep you playing, but if the desire to play becomes stronger than your will power to wait for the free top-up, you are offered, even encouraged to make purchases to b able to play again sooner.

Worldwide social casino revenue is expected to grow to above 7. The market is made up of mostly males aged between , although women are the larger share of the market in the over 51 age group.

Popularity continues to grow for social casino games but also there is the recent lifting of online gambling restrictions across many states in the USA.

Whilst most of the lifted restrictions at this stage are for online betting sites for sport, it is inevitable that many online casino sites will emerge over time.

As technological improvements are made and ease of access to the internet continue for gaming purposes, we can expect both real and social casino gaming to continue growing in popularity not just in the US but worldwide also. Plainly there is a difference between online, land-based and social casino play, but the main thing to note when considering social casino play is that you do not need to know anything different to begin playing.

Let's take a closer look at the main differences between traditional and social casino outside of game-play. The difference between online, or land-based casino and social casino is that social casino is not deemed as gambling and is therefore available to anyone who can access the internet to play legally no matter which of the United States you happen to be in at any given time.

Outside of the fact that is it not classed as gambling there are few other things that separate the two, as we have seen already, social casinos still create huge revenue from the purchase options available to players. The social element reintroduces some of the social characteristics of a real casino that is lost when playing online, especially when live dealer tables are not available.

You can play against and with other players in social casino and interact with others through challenges and tournaments.

The biggest danger of social casino play is for it to lead to believe that playing for the incredibly inflated stakes used in the social play is a reasonable action to take when playing for real money. Social casino also has its addictive elements too.

There are rewards for big stakes as well as big wins on social casino slot games. Something that should not be attempted to be replicated at a real money casino.

Whilst social casino offers free slot play at first site, it soon becomes apparent that the aim of the casino is for you to use all of the coins you are given as an introductory offer and not be able to play again until you get a complimentary top-up, sometimes hourly, sometimes daily.

This is all very well, and you might think it is simply a matter of closing the app and waiting for the top up to play again. However, just like candy crush, a social casino game like slots can be very addictive. Add in the faux gambling element and arguably more so.

It is at this point, resisting the temptation to purchase credits to play becomes a consideration. Now, if we were thinking of pushing coins into a table to shoot pool, or into a pinball machine we would think nothing of it. Indeed, there is little distinction in terms of paying to play for entertainment purposes.

It is a matter for the individual to decide and control how much they are will to spend to play social casino slot games. There are no real strategies or goal setting plays for Social casino, but there are a few tips that can make your balance last longer and extend your enjoyment of playing these low-risk online casino games.

Before you can begin playing any of the games or slots on a social casino app, you will have to register and create an account.

This is free an easy and a number of popular options are available to do so. With no pre-saved payment methods, Email registration is the best choice for creating a new account. Registering an account with your email address is the recommended choice.

Simply provide your email address and a password [make sure it is unique and not used anywhere else] and you will soon receive an email to confirm that you have made the registration attempt. Verify this and you will be logged in and ready to. The added bonus of registering with e-mail is that you have no pre-saved payment method and can not make purchases by accident, unlike the other methods.

Registering your account with your Apple ID may be unavoidable if you have downloaded the app on your iPhone or iPad. Registering with your Apple account makes it easy to spend money on a social casino site. Try to avoid it if you can. Being linked to your apple account is the quickest and easiest way for the social casino to manage any purchases you want to make.

If you can avoid this method and make it more difficult to purchase credits, you may find you will save money in the long term. Playing with Facebook is an easy log-in option and in this day and age, I expect we are all using a Facebook login for something or another on the internet.

The one thing we will be all too aware of is how our activity or information may be monitored, collected, and used. Expect to see lots of adverts popping up on your newsfeed the minute you register a social casino account with Facebook. Expect your Facebook and Instagram news feeds to contain little more than casino and gambling ads for the foreseeable future if you use the Facebook registration method.

It is a common misconception that social casino is entirely free to play. With desire to play the games and players getting hooked on the action, there is the option to pay to play.

I took a look at ho much it can cost to play social casino games. Yes they do. Consider the fact that whilst you can spend a lot of money playing these games, and the fact that you can not win money back and make a profit, tey are a form of entertainment, that when played in a controlled manner, will cost less than playing real money slots in the long run anyway.

ii All federal, state or local taxes, fees and charges in lieu of taxes have been paid by the authorized person or entity on any activity arising out of or in connection with the gambling.

iii If conducted by an organization which is exempt from taxation of income under section of the internal revenue code, the organization's records are open to public inspection. a No player receives, or becomes entitled to receive, any benefit, directly or indirectly, other than the player's winnings from the gamble.

b No other person receives or becomes entitled to receive any benefit, directly or indirectly, from the gambling activity, including benefits of proprietorship, management or unequal advantage or odds in a series of gambles. d Players "compete on equal terms with each other in a gamble" when no player enjoys an advantage over any other player in the gamble under the conditions or rules of the game or contest.