The month of March recorded the expenditure growth for some segments of online gaming, such as casino games and poker: but no "boom", only the shift of players.
Thanks to the stop of land-based gaming for the restrictions due to the
containment of Covid-19, online gaming continues to grow in Italy in some segments. Despite the growth trend is stable over time, with remote gaming that has always increased from one month to the other, in the last weeks there have been extraordinary trends, just linked to the emergency. Like the growth of online poker, which after years of decline returns to record positive numbers. However, it would be inaccurate to speak of a "boom", taking into account that most of the numbers derive from a shift of players from one game to another, mainly due to the lack of sports events on the betting schedules, that has seen many players
betting on
poker or
casino instead of betting on the (few) minor events.
But let's see the data. Starting from the casino games that in March, on the websites authorized by Adm (i.e. the difference between the collection, of €2,518,136,726, and the winnings, of €2,424,140,895),
record an expense of €93,995,830, compared to the €60641,293 that had been counted in the same month last year.
This is a growth that reaches 35.5 percent.
The stakes were 31,649,164.
MARKET SHARES - As for market shares, the leadership of
Reel Italy Ltd is confirmed, with 12.59 percent, followed by
Sisal Entertainment Spa with 8.31 percent and
Lottomatica Scommesse Srl with 7.59 percent.
Snaitech is in fourth position with 7.34 percent while
Oia Services Limited holds a stake of 0.68 percent.
Same situation for online poker, which sees all the values of the shares of online poker rooms grow, even if there are substantial variations in the percentages of expenditure calculated on the basis of the data provided by operators and processed by
GiocoNewsPoker.it.
In Tournament,
PokerStars grows by 8.5 percentage points and all the "pursuers" decrease. If the Stars Group room dominates with 63.72 percent,
Snaitech maintains the second position but decreases by 7.72 percent and
Sisal also remains on 6 percentage points, even if it was at 0.08 percent from the room runner up in February.
Even
Lottomatica loses around 1.7 points, as well as
Eurobet which decreases from 4.77 percent to 3.59 percent.
888 Poker grows, rising from 1.39 percent to 2.47 percent and, as mentioned, considering the collection of 120 percent more, this data is to be considered as
an increase of 4 times compared to the previous month.
Bgame softens the blow at 1.02, while
E-Play24 decreases of 1 point, perhaps accusing the landbased nature of many stores and charge places closed during the month of March.
Practically stable
Oia Services (Betaland and Enjoybet.it) and also in this case the share of expenditure grows in value for what we told before.
However, we remind you that these numbers are growing but always in a heavily reduced market.