The overwhelming majority of online casino vendors have announced their investments in online gambling. These reports attracted the attention of the UK Gambling Commission. The members of the Commission are monitoring the social gambling space to assess the influence of gambling licensing on the society. John Travers, the member of the UK Gambling Commission, announced that the government is concerned about the blurring of boundaries between leisure and real money gambling. Players usually use virtual money when playing on social gaming websites, which enables the inclusion of social gaming into real money gambling. Nevertheless, virtual money is bought by players for real money and according to some reports they can be exchanged for real money.

Nowadays, members of the UK Gambling Commission are facing the problem of deciding whether social gaming is a gambling or not. Social gaming is a very influential area which is worth millions of dollars. Besides, most social websites sites enroll underage members and this leads to disastrous results. For instance, a pre-teen pupil in Liverpool played online poker on the free social gaming website and then lost £7,000 on real money poker using his father’s credit card.

June 15, 2012