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SPORTS BETTING GROW 273% IN 5 YEARS

Spain: €35 billion in prizes since online gaming regulation

Jdigital, the association of digital gaming in Spain, informed that after five years of the regulation of online gambling in Spain, and since then, about 35 billion euros in monetary prizes have been distributed. Jdigital has now more than 40 partners in the industry and has developed an infographic with the most important figures in this half decade.

Online gambling is a constantly growing sector, and if it is compared the GGR in the first quarter after the last regulation officially registered by the DGOJ, with the first of 2017, that the sector almost tripled. The total amount of money that has been played in these 5 years is 37,325,625,074 euros.

New users were registered to reach today a total of 9.6 million people since the regulation of the sector, the equivalent of almost 100 Camp Nou stadiums completely full.

Within the online gaming sector, the segment that experienced a greater growth are sports betting, an increase of 273% and multiplying by 3.7 the GGR. Poker is maintained with a slight growth of 10%, well below the trend of the sector. The GGR of blackjack is tripled, roulette is multiplied by 2.5 and bingo has doubled.

In these 5 years, sports betting segment rose from 45.7% to 58.4% of the total online gambling sector. However, the opposite happened with póker: it went from 32.65 to 12.3% of the sector.

Source: GMB / Azarplus