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Report SPORTS BETTING - PART 2


COMPARISON OF ONLINE GAMING 2013 TYPE OF GAME Poker


Sports betting Casino Lottery Bingo


Competitions


€2,015,980,000 €1,278,620,000 €74,720,000 €60,510,000 €10,250,000


AMOUNT GAMBLED GGR €2,240,720,000


% OF MARKET


€67,810,000 €116,290,000 €33,600,000 €46,800,000 €7,490,000 €7,060,000


BREAKDOWN OF SPORTS BETTING ONLINE TYPE OF BETTING


Sports betting ‘Contra partida’


€1,000,810,353


Mutual sports betting €129 Horse race betting Other betting


€8,864,651 €110


€600 per day, €1,500 per week or €3,000 per month.


Operators were required to pay back tax on business when the sector was unregulated whilst databases were wiped clean and a new start began with an .es domain. Spain eventually awarded 53 companies licences for online gaming.


In 2012 there were said to be just over one million online players with various games permitted such as sports pool betting, fixed odds betting, horserace pool betting, raffles and competitions.


General licences are divided into three categories Betting (Parimutuel sports bets, fixed odds, betting exchange, parimutuel horseracing, fixed odds horseracing, crossed horseracing bets, other fixed odds and other betting exchange bets.), other (roulette, baccarat, bingo, black jack, poker, complementary games and slots) and contests.


l Fees include: Provision applicant register is €2,500; Gaming Register is €2,500; General licence fee is €10,000; specific licence fee €10,000, Technical assessment fee €38,000.


l Gaming tax is 22 percent of gross profit for pari- mutuel ports betting, 22 percent of net for fixed odds, crossed sports bets, fixed odds horse rac- ing and other fixed odds bets; 15 percent of gross profit for parimutue horseracing. Raffles and contests pay 20 percent of gross profit.


There are strict regulations in place to help prevent gambling addiction. The DGOJ stipulates that there are player limits which must be no higher than


According to data for 2013 there were 44 companies with operating online licences and only three had developed APPs for mobiles and tables which were Reel Spain (Pokerstars), Betfair International and Spread your Wings Spain (Miapuesta). It was anticipated that during 2014 the rest would follow. By 2014 there were 51 operators


To bet legally in Spain players must open an account with an internet bookmaker that uses an .es domain name and is licensed by the Juego Seguro. Legal sites also have a sports betting licence reference.


Last year some €5.6bn was gambled online in Spain across three sectors – poker, betting and


– AMOUNT GAMBLED – GGR 40.01% 35.90% 22.83%


1.08% 0.18%


% OF MARKET 29.61%


49.37% 14.67%


3.27% 3.08%


AMOUNT GAMBLED AMOUNT GAMBLED PRIZES 2012


2013


€1,988,686,716 €461,580


€21,194,795 €7,725


2012


PRIZES 2013


€948,044,360 €1,877,251,399 €104


€246,160


€8,182,360 €130


€19,777,276 €4,968


To bet legally in Spain players must open an account with an


internet bookmaker that uses an .es domain name and is licensed by the Juego Seguro. Legal sites also have a sports betting


licence reference. Last year some €5.6bn was gambled online in Spain across three sectors.


casino games. This was divided up between:


Poker €2.2bn (40 percent); Betting €2bn (35.9 percent); Casinos €1.2bn (22.8 percent); Lotteries €74m; Bingo €60m (one percent) and Competitions €10m (0.1 percent).


The general profile of players is 24-35 age group and university students as the highest percentage followed by 18-24 year olds. They play weekly or sporadically.


Around 140,000 games are played daily with an average bet of €6.30 according to a study. In December 2014 there were 346,277 active players.


In the month of December last year €286.6m was gambled on sports betting ‘contrapartida’, €3.6m on horse racing ‘contrapartida’, €11.4m on Mutual sports betting. The GGR for the same groups was €12.1m, €292.3m and €4.8m respectively.


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