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Students Love Online Casino Sites |
| The recent popularity of online casino sites is not a novelty at all. Although the population that is interested in it can sometimes be quite surprising. The number of college students gambling online has recently increased to 14%. It is suggested that the raise of the tuition costs is the main reason for students to turn to the online casino industry. In a survey conducted by Ohio State University among 3,500 student in order to study their gambling habits, it was found that 14% of them had visited online casino sites and participated in online gambling. Specialists imply that poker tournaments on the television have been the main encouragement of interest in online games, increasing the number of online casino and poker sites from fewer than 25 sites 11 years ago, to its current amount of over 2,000. This students' population boom is nothing but an advantage for online casino sites operators, such as Absolute Poker, that introduced modified tournaments where college students compete in free poker tournaments to win a semester of tuition payment. Absolute Poker spokesperson Jason Reindorp said: 'We're responding to the demand. These are pretty savvy students who are very responsible and know what they're getting into." |
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