Editing Online Gambling (section)

===Users of Online Gambling in the Philippines===

:The Philippines is poised to be wooed by gambling opportunities. This is because betting, to a vast population of Filipinos, has been integrated into the Filipino lifestyle. It ranges from betting which cock or rooster will win to which league would make it in the finals. All Internet users, who are part of the Philippine gambling market and are at least 21 years old, may qualify as users of any online gambling site. However, the power of a non-excludable Internet allows minors to cheat their way through the age limitation. This issue would be further discussed in the latter part of the report.

:The increasing participation of women is phenomenal because it enables top online casinos and online gambling platforms to respond to the opportunity to expand its market by introducing developments such as social networking within these gambling sites. Online casinos are in competition to add social networking applications in order to increase their opportunities to attract women players.

:The Philippine gambling market is not clearly defined by statistics; however, it is safe to assume that those of the upper classes are the apparent users of online gambling for the very reason that they have more financial capacity and more means to access the Internet.  In relation to this, the bets are relatively small. Combined with the accessibility of these sites, the gambling market is then open to the middle social brackets through online gambling. Aside from socio-economic status, the demographics of the Philippine gambling market is heavily dominated by the teenage age bracket.