Legal Online Poker Would Boost American Casinos

Legalization of online poker in the United States will help, rather than hurt, existing land-based casino and gaming establishments, an article published by the US Gaming Survey in the current of iGaming Business North America confirms.

Online gaming boosts land-based gaming

Based on a 2012 poll of more than 8,000 diverse people from around the United States who currently play online, the article states that: more respondents indicated they would increase their state lottery or land-based casino play than those who would decrease it, in the event that online poker is fully legalized.

Surprisingly, younger people who currently don't buy lottery tickets indicated that they would consider buying them online if they were made available with online poker. Most respondents said that legal and regulated online gambling would have "no effect," negative or otherwise, on their land-based gaming habits.

US Gaming Survey

US Gaming Survey, a top polling company, is the author of the 2012 US Online Poker Survey, an in-depth look into the habits and behavior of online gamblers in the United States - where, as all Americans and other readers of OCR know, Internet gaming is yet to receive proper federal recognition.

"Cannibalization" - meaning the takeover of land-based gaming revenues by online gambling operators - has one of the biggest arguments used by opponents of the efforts to legalize online poker at the federal level. Now that the argument has been blown out of the water, we wait to hear what excuse they'll come up with next.