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when a crisis occurs whether it is due to Pandemic or War then automatically a country will do "LOCKDOWN" which means locking all activities related to crowd interaction such as casinos and sports matches..

now "PANDEMIC COVID-19" is making huge losses, even The big teams have to cut their players' salaries to cover the costs the Team has to bear (https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/11273915/premier-league-players-100m-pay-cut/). The future nobody knows and the possibility of a crisis like this will happen in the future is very large.

For entrepreneurs who want to start a gambling business or gambling players who want to continue playing gambling, this is a list that can be an example of gambling that is not interrupted in times of crisis;

• CASINO ONLINE / LIVE
  Many offline casinos are closed as now so playing online casino is the best choice..  You can get a reference for example or type of game HERE (https://bitcoinchaser.com/casino)
• E-SPORT
  every year E-Sport enthusiasts continue to rise even to the match at the Olympics, many predictions say that the E-SPORT market in the future is very large, the profit generated can be billions of dollars.  E-Sport does not need a big place and spectators, even players can do matches at home..  You can get a reference for example or type of game HERE (https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/esports-news-gaming-websites/)
• LOTTERY
  This is one of the old types of gambling, although there are currently several lottery providers that have temporarily closed their services (https://www.courant.com/politics/government-watch/hc-pol-lender-lottery-union-dispute-who-works-from-home-20200325-b47gvrmbcfecpmtqlguobkndny-story.html), but in fact the Lottery market is very large and can still survive if creative and innovative service providers for example by adopting crypto currencies.

*The OP is very open to suggestions, if there is another type of game that you know is very good so that in the future we gamblers can still play even in the 'LOCKDOWN' state..

Just putting our hand up and saying that at mbet.io (http://mbet.io)  we still have horse racing and greyhound racing to bet on, with live streams of the races.

In the next 12 hours we have 200+ races to have a bet on.

It's simple to say that "E-Sport doesn't need a big place and spectators" but there are lots of factors that should be looked at if a certain event will be pushed on their exact given date. There are now lots of E-sports events and tournaments that got canceled or postponed due to the pandemic virus.

Playing online as an alternative to push the event isn't even a good solution as all involved players are also practicing social distancing. It's difficult for a certain team not to play alongside each other in a big and major event.

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I don't see yet a crypto-gambling site that offers a lottery that becomes a success in the long-run.

On the other hand, if we take this on a physical lottery, yes the majority closed their service but even they continue to operate, I doubt people will be allowed to go to this place. Lining up in a lottery is defeating the purpose of social distancing and I doubt a community that put under lockdown will have the interest to throw some money to play on a lottery.

eSport also got effected.

For example, a few weeks ago dota 2 tournament was canceled during these situations.  They cant handle matches online, the reason is needed to verify players not using any illegal (cheating) program for the match. If they can do an online tournament, would be hard to verify the fair games for every team.

For major and International then doing it online wont really be possible but recently that Wesave Charity play  (https://liquipedia.net/dota2/WePlay/WeSave_Charity_Play) succeeded but its understandable that this game is different in talks of business since this is one is focused on charity work.

When it comes to cheat, its plausible but we've seen that there are still some CS:GO games that do still proceed and i can say that they are still doing well in spite of the the pandemic we're facing.

i think most of the gambling business that has survive today are online casinos, because workers may be permit to work at home
while having their connection via vpn , and the company stay afloat during this crisis, it is also safe because players are also at home
and they don't need physical contact, with other people like handling cards, or holding any material that has contact with other people
also money are online.

Of course big events ain't gonna happen online considering the possibility that they can gather big crowds on events like majors and international on Dota 2. But still, online games are still happening right now like the example you give. Gamblers can still bet on those tournaments even if it is big or small. Betting service is still happening today even though we have this pandemic right now.

mbet is my choice to bet upon some horse racing, Betroar's brawlers is also one of the best ways to pass your time while you can play there 24/7 (Correct me if I'm wrong). And Primedice is also one of my favorites to hop upon when in need of playing dice. Last but not the least is extraordinary plinko we can play at luckybit. ;)

The survival capability of all online based virtual casino has been tested for several economic crisis eversince. This has brought up a strong foundation on all business that always took control of their end. Digital age is always having an advantage as to compare with physical type of gambling. Also with other purpose, it do have a positive outcome as long as we're able to adapt this kind of cryptocurrency.

I guess the majority of the online gambling site survives It does need any heavy maintenance just like on physical casino's it only requires customer support, and of course, expenses for maintaining the website security and other stuff. If the lockdown will only run for a month it does really impact physical casino's, no gamblers, no gain, and no loss also, maybe only for maintenance but I am afraid if it will last for a long time it will cause small companies bankruptcy.

I feel like online gambling providers are making a killing right now. Probably some of the live dealer sites not too much but online dice, card games, and slots out to be booming. People gamble when they're bored and people have a lot of time and money to blow through.

Casino online will still survive because the casino is not getting the direct effect from this case. People can still play gambling games online, and they can be easy to found the casino. It seems people need to use a targetted keyword if they want to play gambling with crypto because if they only use playing gambling online or gambling online, not many crypto gambling websites will show up in the result. But that is okay because sooner or later, people will get in the crypto gambling websites so they will curious, and they will search for more information.

Esports tournaments actually do get cancelled due to real-life events, especially when it comes to major tournaments which are common with games like DOTA 2 and CS:GO. There are also exclusively online tournaments, but they're usually reserved for smaller events and lower-tier matchups and it's generally ideal that higher-tier teams play in person.

On the CS:GO side of things, the anticheat programs employed in third party services outside of Valve's own system are actually extremely sophisticated and manage to filter out almost all cheaters, but there are indeed incidents where external devices are used to cheat and such, but those incidents are generally very isolated.

But charity games is far different in real International competition because charity games doesn't necessarily need strict rules as the games are open just for a cause but International games need to be more strict because the players will do anything Just to win and not for anything that may help others.

so Basically Esports are affected with this crisis.

Recently there is a charity game event in DOTA 2 where there is a big prize pool that will donate to frontliners like doctors, nurses, health workers,  police and many more; and also to people who lose their job because of the quarantine. My friends and I planned to bet against each other, I bet in the game of TNC vs Adroit (I'm in favor with TNC)  and I lose there because the winner is Adroit but for me it is okay because there is an internal agreements within my friends that whoever losses in the game, will donate another 20% of the money that we bet.

local lottery on our place is closed due to the order of our government . most local players are older age people that are not into modern technology , im talking about online gambling but except on using smartphones to access social media sites as its now easy to do it .

millinieals are the one that are more familiar with crypto , like me but i never tried a crypto lottery game before   . i only tried casino games like slots and roullete  but even if tried lotto i think ill still not enjoy it the more that i enjoyed casino games

Yes, effectively! We are living in a time of crisis. The Covid19 pandemic could not be controlled yet. It is a fact that affects us worldwide. Regarding online crypto gaming, I think they may be in demand right now because casinos and gambling sites are closed.
I recently did a review on Alexa and saw that some sites were more in demand than others. So it is possible that the audience will improve in online gambling.

Not only on Dota there are a lot of games that need verification of fairness, the only online tournament that can be held right now that will show fairness is the game of chess because every move can be recorded and players can be located anywhere in the world, and there are always new tournament being held daily in the online chess kingdom.

But the problem if you will going to start this business these days is the competition and the advertising because of many operational sites now there is a hard chance for the newly created sites to compete.

We have seen already those new open sites that gather too little traffic but you are right that these businesses are not affected by crisis like this one though the Esports are in questionable.

Apart from the fact that online and Esport gambling might let your gambling business survive when a crisis come,
there is still a way that entrepreneurs can make the company survive by themselves. You can take advantage of all the recent incidents that happen and add betting options to those incidents. It might be very profitable in the end.

Have you forgotten about freebitco.in?
They are still successful up till now and they have weekly lottery on their site.
But I guess others don't really see's them as gambling site and only consider them as a faucet.

Even if those sites that are purely focus in sports betting, I think they'll still survive as they are already making good profit during the time they are still operating, and it's normal to a business to set aside some contingency fund for crisis that are unforeseen.

Some gambling sites are smart enough, they integrated all the games in one site like a one stop shopping site, so they are still making now despite of the economic crisis.

Since we entered into online world then these things are also getting emerged and evolved more so it will never stop as long as we have the internet.Gambling is not only the thing which attracted people in the past years almost everything turned into online like shopping,even groceries are now available.

I first to know them as faucet site and I used them to get a free bits before but now they evolve and became more successful gambling business here and guess they survive again in times of crisis the same like this since the game they have is much good for those bored people to play on.

survived in times of crisis  ? how come when crisis ( virus ) only affect the real world or the real business but online business are still alive and kicking  . how much more if its a crypto gambling business ?  we all know that crypto gambing right now are verry indemand due to the temporary closure of offline gambling casinos   .

 also freebitco is already succesful even before so how much more today  ? and yes they have a lottery but not like the actual lottery where the draw is live and you can see them with your own two eyes  .

Online casinos will continue on doing their service, especially on such situation because people will definitely choose the safeness of their health. People will prefer to gamble online where their health isn't at risk because they don't have any close contact with other players. In addition, online casinos are hassle-free and you have various options of casino sites as well as casino games. The advantage of online gambling is that people don't need to travel just to entertain themselves because they can easily play whenever and wherever they want online.

Sports betting websites are not making money now, but they'll survive for sure.
Maybe you can also add dice sites, there are still gambling sites that are only focus on dice games and they are sure enjoying a surge of gamblers now since sports betting is not available, and physical casinos are close, a gambler who really like to enjoy will try online and will also try different games.

You just need a good internet connection and gadget for you to have an access in gambling platforms, of course you also need funds to use so that you have money to spend in gambling. As you are not allowed to go outside, just stay at home and enjoy the online gambling. Most of the people who gambling physically are wasting their money online to let their urge in gambling to be satisfied because that's the only thing that entertains them while they are bored inside their home during this community quarantine.


Most probably that the online casinos will be having a high profitability because gamblers will focus on their platform. They will have a higher volume of customers so that the money will just circulate around them and will give them huge profits. The only hindrance in the online gambling is that the internet connection and if you have a huge funds to use in gambling.

Also people will not a hard time using it because it has already an instruction how to use this platform without and hassle. You should also read the rules and regulation in a certain casino so that you prevent yourself from violating the rules and you know what you really need to do because if not, it can include an authority.


Yes, people are safer in their homes while playing gambling. There is no risk of getting the disease if you're not going out and travel just to gambling, plus, it will just bring you the virus if you stay outside of your house. In online gambling, you can play even if you're in your bed, bathroom, kitchen and anywhere inside your house so travelling to gamble should not be tolerated as of now. Stay safe and also remind your family members and friends not to go outside until this pandemic is still active.

I give a salute to the owner that succeeds in maintaining freebitco.in a long time ago. Not many faucet websites which still online for a long time, but he can manage his website and have a big fan of that site. That site is one of gambling site plus faucet website which have a big reward on the lottery games. But I am sure that more gambling websites can survive in these situations.

Those luck based gambling games are gaining more players due to this issue from both offline gambling house and sports betting. Gamblers who still
have money and still finding time to try some luck will continue patronizing this kinds of gambling.
Though it's not that profitable for the house as people are more concern with their financial securities than finding for some leisures.

Obviously, the online casino has a higher chance of surviving in this current situation. It does not require going outside, and it's safer to gamble inside our houses. In fact, it gives them an opportunity to gain more users because gamblers can't gamble outside so they have no choice but to gamble online. Even without this pandemic, the online gambling industry has the chance of getting more attention. What more now that it's not safe to go outside.

Some big e-sports events were also postponed but it doesn't stop e-sport activities because you can still bet with it. However, for the lottery, it's not available right now in my country due to enhanced community quarantine. So maybe, lottery business is still affected in my country. I don't know in other countries.

When we have crisis like this , online gambling are not affected because the player are still playing to their website so they still earning money. For those Casinos who are closed now they still good even they  did not operate for several months because for sure the owner of the Casino are earned more profit in the last few years since they started their Casino they still survive this crisis and they did not bankcrupt because their capital was already back.

The gambling business that can survive in this crisis is online casino because since most gamblers always wanted to play slots and table card games at the casino playing all of it in a online casino will be a a trend to every gamblers. Also, E-sports betting could also be postponed because it is mostly played live and they are required to play with their opponents in the same place.

In times like this one then its surely an opportunity for online gambling sites to have more users due to pandemic situation.Its a chance to make more money since gamblers will surely find a way to gamble even they would heading on online world since they wont have any option but to play in front of their pc.Yeah its a different experience when you are gambling physically but if these people do seek out for entertainment or would like to
wipe out their boredom then they will surely jump in.
E-sports is still alive and kicking yet there are still bookies that do offer lines for such games.

You are right now that almost all E-Sport matches are canceled but in theory, E-Sport can still run even when quarantined like this, I'm not sure if in the future people will continue to run E-SPORT even in an emergency.  btw, thank you for your opinion..

you are very right until now I still play the lottery at Freebitco.in (though not very often) but Freebitco.in is the best example of an online crypto-based online lottery site that still survives so far..

I have entered the Dice, Poker, and Crash site on Casino online because Dice is in the Casino gambling category  ;D

^^ Major E-Sport tournaments will still gather a lot of people in a closed building because it often accompanied by a tech/gaming exhibition. It is an event to promote gaming gears, etc., so they won't organize a big tournament without crowds.

Anyway, for sure, land casinos getting hit very bad, but the big players will survive. The survivability will depend on their ability to pay current liabilities (see current or quick ratio). It also applies to online casinos. However, if this pandemic lasts for years, we may see many changes in society. Maybe online gambling will be the new normal.

In addition to this, there are some teams that released their players since the tournaments have been cancelled. The dota 2 tournament that got cancelled was the ESL One in LA but now they continued their tournament in an online format and it's divided in several regions since ping could be a problem. I don't think verification is the biggest problem when it comes to online games at least on the upper level.

Anything online could be considered safe with this lockdown. Everyone is expected to be in their beloved homes, and currently, we are so, and what's the most used utility that we have now? Those are water, electricity, and the internet. It's already understood that people have the time to research and understand what they would want to do when they are bored. Think of other ways that it could be applied because most of it is existing. Then that way, you could profit from that unique idea.

Gambling, porn, and alcohol,,, are what I read are recession-proof activities. During a downturn, people have no money but for some reason they will still pay to gamble, watch porn and drink.

Now these statistics also were true even before the age of digital space, so I am sure it is not only online places that thrive but physical. However, Covid makes everyone stay indoors, so maybe you are right;)

I guess gambling thrives no matter what the environment is. They will always find a way how to play. And because there is online gambling, this situation is very favourable to them. Playing at the comfort of your home as long as you have net connection. And I believe those gamblers that are used with traditional casinos and now playing online, will find the benefit of finding this as a good alternative.

The point is about online gambling, in times like this it is very likely that every traditional gambler will turn to online gambling which in reality online gambling is still safe to do because they are indeed about the virtual world which does not involve as much physical contact as in traditional gambling. Well, online gambling business and or other online business is something that at least will continue to operate even though the crisis is happening like now.

Lottery business will survive? I doubt so.

Most lottery branches are obviously close due to virus spread. The closure was mandatory and most businesses are enforced to do it to prevent social gathering. The lottery business is no excuse for the crisis. And if we take the situation on the online lottery, the operation is also halted since operators aren't allowed to go work at these times to make a live raffle draw.

For a gambling site that offers lottery, it never came to success even without the current crisis since most people want to take luck at a live draw roll compare to computer-generated algorithms.

E-sports are too badly affected by this situations. Though some went for online only events, most of them are cancelled.
The online live gambling has got some interest now and most of them seems to be operating as they are purely work from home situation for the croupier.
Though the volume of pure online gambling like dices and bust games have increased dramatically as people are free on their home.

This is I think the best of the 3. We know already that there are many gamblers right now who can't go outside and go to a casino because of the virus that is affecting the gambling industry. In order for the gamblers to still gamble, they choose to gamble online so right now online casinos have an increased revenue for these months.

This might help but don't forget that there are some tournaments that have been cancelled already. E-sports market has been very huge these past years and we saw different teams participating on it especially in the MOBA genre like Dota 2, LOL, Mobile Legends and some other games like CS-GO etc. With this virus, the market will surely fall temporarily.

Aside from the given, you can improvise to make horse with just a little programming. This online gambling surely flourished during these quarantine times, but I think nothing beats the experience of playing real casino.

I can only speak about my country's lottery business. I guess it will survive through this storm. The lottery business has a lot of money. They have millions and millions in its coffers. Right now, there may be no income flowing in and the charity expenses are still flowing out, but then with things being temporary, they can easily manage to do with whatever amount they have until the suspension of draws are lifted.


Online lottery, I notice, is not that attractive. I agree that people tend to prefer the manually-drawn lotteries rather than those online ones.

Many roads lead to gambling.

There are many environments where gamblings are practiced clandestinely. They make little things that are competitive or unpredictable as a gambling medium even though it only involves a few gamblers.

This is an idea and maybe one day, even the price of bitcoin will be used as a betting medium by utilizing influential countries as people begin to predict economic and social crises that will potentially affect the world such as the current pandemic or war between countries. For some people would consider this act immoral, but for heavy gambling addicts ...? ;D

Esports are also postponed because it is for the safety of the players as they are competing with another team that comes from other countries. It is really safer if those games not only Esports, some actual sports and etc must be postponed. I've read some article and I don't remember where but it state that the Covid-19 can be transmitted from 1 person to another 16 person. Imagine that kind of ratio, that's very dangerous to let people go outside and play gambling because they don't know that the transmission of this virus is somehow fast. Online gambling such as poker and roulette will be the answer to our urge in gambling as of now, as it doesn't required any person to be used in the gambling. It just need a legit gambling website and a regulator, and you can now play gambling inside your house, you just need an internet and funds to play.

I love poker at this one. I rarely do like those fruit games. I don't like games which ends fast.  ;D


This one can somehow loosen the boredom.
Keno specially. It will be really exciting to put it in a gambling game.
Short game only, no need to wait for a day.
Maybe an hour will be fine and then go for another round. More players the better the prizes would be.

In my own opinion, Esport also needs a big place and spectators, even we can now watch them in some live streaming platforms like Twitch.tv because sometimes it is hard to manage a tournament or a competition without a specific place on where the match will happen. It may be possible that Esports really doesn't need an audience or spectators but they need a place on where they will meet up and will have a match.

It will stay here for sure because of greed from human nature won't let them to choose the real way of earning so either they will play online when everything is under lockdown so most of the gambling forms will survive.

But the physical casinos might b facing issues now and this might tell them why they should move to internet culture.

^ No, Esports now also affected to this pandemic. As a gambler, we have nothing to do is wait until this pandemic covid-19 will get rid of or naturally stay away. Probably the best choice is online gambling like poker, dice, roulette that has a bankroll. Let us take care of our selves through this virus and help through even you stay at home while we are at work. Let's do hope that front liner like me fighting to this decease will survive in this situation.

Well, this pandemic gives them some lesson that they really need to shift online when a certain scenario like this give them headaches because they can't operate and can't get any profit.

What could I say more, thanks for doing the job even it's very risky, kudos to all front liners. Waiting is really the best option especially for sports and eSports gambling enthusiasts, this pandemic will not be over if people are still hardheaded not obeying the rules set by the government.

Greed is the reason why people loss big out of gambling. Now the situation has gone worse with people facing economic issues. When there is need for money people always intend to risk to earn big out of the narrow way. Another thing being lonely, now with the lockdown some spend time with family while there are people who are lonely spend on internet related activities.

Gambling falls under this category, and if luck gets them an earning out it will be happy. If things go out of the prediction it will surely cause frustration as people are suffering much.

If you look in cities that are built upon gambling, such as Las Vegas or Atlantic City you will notice that the towns are ghost towns and basically shut down. The casinos wont survive if they stay closed for 6 months without government aid and neither will the businesses that thrive from the casinos being busy

But I guess these casino houses earned enough to survive a long month business closure right? Probably 80% to 90% of businesses are closed due to the pandemic that we are all aware of, coz who does not? A caveman right. These casinos are pretty big houses, these are the casinos that was built to gain half of the city's money. Every town is a ghost town right now and I guess the best to be an alternative is an online gambling platform if you really want to gamble amidst the threat of the virus.

Esports definitely got a huge spike during this period, they have been the unloved child of sportsbooks and really not get as much as the regular sports while betting but during this period they have gotten a lot more attention and they have been getting a lot more wagering going on in esports.

Lottery is definitely wouldn't be in my list, it is still as slow and close to impossible as ever, there must be some lottery increase but doubt it is as big as people imagine, I would instead put poker in there, a lot of places are now doing online poker tournaments which is getting a lot more attention if you ask me. And of course the biggest one is casino games like dice, they are definitely getting more and more people these days and that is obvious from the results.

Those gambling business that will survive during this kind of crisis are those business who are operates during or over online because they are just the one who can operate inline gmabling due to people are not allowed to go outside and that's why the people will just go to intent to play online gambling or online esports so that they will still gamble their money.

But most of the people are under lockdown may not have enough money to gamble so they might be more cautious than their real life scenario in pandemic but still more people will get attracted to gambling as you said since they were lonely now and looking for some kind of fun out there.

When it comes to sustaining then these offline casinos can withstand no matter how long the duration of such temporary shutdown of the business.The thing here is that the employees itself would be highly affected to this such closure but for owners? Its impossible for them to face up such hardship.

Online gambling sites now are really on advantage because majority of people now is on their own house now and as long they do have internet then they can gamble online
as they like.So they can still generate out profits.

The gambling businesd that will survive during crisis like this time like corona virus is online casino. Some events are affected by the corona virus and being cancelled because of it. If the crisis is on one country only then there will be events going on. Some may need to save some money for daily supply and would only gamble small amount.

Online gambling business is not getting the bad impact from the coronavirus because the player is not come by offline, but they can play many games while staying at homes. Almost all of the business industry that operates by offline got the effect, and they must shut down temporarily. If the crisis happens in one country, perhaps, the event will still continue because the other country is not getting the effect. But we talk about the pandemic that occurs in almost country.

Indeed, so for sure the Sin City which is Las Vegas is now out of operation. Too bad for the businesses around that area not only casinos but other amenities as well including hotels and restaurants. While on the other side of the globe, I guess Macau is doing great right now despite of the pandemic since they only got 44 cases with 10 recovered and 0 deaths :o. Amazing, isn't it?! So I will not get shocked if they're businesses is in regular routine

The problem with E-sports gambling, more specifically in midst of crisis and pandemic, is that it would be harder to bet or trust a single team if they either win or lose due to the fact that some team plays more often and some are on a bootcamps while some are separated in which it lessens the possibility of that team to win. Also, some team and its players are from other countries which requires a single server for a match to happen, that was also a huge disadvantage if it do so. Hence, crisis do also affects the gambling world of esports. Despite the fact that it can be done simply online, the game and bets would still be different.

Same with employees.
They could work from home since there is no need for an office as long as the server is running.
Everything can be remotely done by now.
My neighbors are actually doing it now. They acquired laptops from their employers and they just need internet to work in their own home at their own time.

This gambling sites can run everywhere you go. I actually did it once using my smartphone. It is just that it lags a lot of time.  ;D
I dont know if it is a problem at their end or my smartphone is just outdated.

Majority will pick the online casinos, because there is no human to human contact, and if the gambling casinos had an online version he will just refer his old clients to their online version, and of course gamblers likes to play on sites that they trust, so those gambling casinos with online version will have a huge advantages than those who don't have one.

I do agree that most physical gambling will die out or would be closed especially sports betting. And i have to correct the OP about Esports being able to continue operations despite the virus is not really possible and most those big esports games events such as Dota 2 or Lol already cancelled their main events.

The only thing that gamblers could play right now would be casino games in online. But what i really what to bet on is sports events because i think there are the ones with most high probability winrate, i only those popular sports like NBA and matches in boxing continues.

Mainly the sports betting sector of the gambling industry is getting affected. The live dealers and such are still working from offices as seen on Evolution gaming and so but things might change in future. But we can safely assume that the casino games which are working without any human support are going to keep running normally.

The problem will arise when the players play too much, they will be wasting money on gambling such that money for essential items start to decrease. Do not let this time become the bad omen for you. Gamble responsibly and keep in mind that this is a crisis situation where keeping your health and mind intact is more important.

Online gambling and e-sports are the bost option since the quarantine had been implemented most Casinos and even sports events are closed and cancelled. This pandemic had hit gambling industry real hard since the only option gamblers have is to play online casino for the mean time.

A big loss for the gambling industry as major volume of money are coming from physical casino I guess.
Vegas who should be making millions now are shut down due to the covid-19 and this is no joke because US has a huge cases for corona virus.

Good for the crypto industry as well, with the wide variety of games we offered and the reputation we build, gamblers would not doubt to adopt.

Online casinos will increase their revenue at this time since most of the gamblers who are gambling in casinos will gamble now online.

However, I think of 2 things that may affect it.
1. What if the gambler doesn't know how to gamble online? He will choose not to gamble online then instead of gambling online where he doesn't know how to do it (not computer-techy gambler).
2. Some of the gamblers right now choose to spend their money to buy some supplies than to spend it in gambling. The virus has been spread worldwide already and some of the countries are in a lockdown already. There are some people who can't go out like they are usually doing and some of them can't go out to work.

If you want to survive to this crisis, it would be better if you think twice before spending your money and as always take care always and don't go out if it isn't important.

Ideally in this time of crisis surviving is more important than gambling. Saving money is the ideal solution but, ideal situation does not exist in the real world. Thise who are addicted are still busy gambling their money to kill boredom.

It is not that tough for anyone to understand online gambling the rules are the same only the scenario changes. I do not thing online gambling will be an issue for anyone who knows how to use the computer.

In this quarantine time I am sure the online gambling sites would have seen a huge surge in their users online as compared to last month. Surely many would have switched to online now especially those who want to while the time and cannot stay away from gambling. Unless people have stopped it considering that recession is in and better to save money now then it is different story.

 It is getting easier and easier to build a casino nowadays, I still think that it is not easy to compete with other people. The reason why it is getting easier is not just because there are now codes available everywhere, you can literally build a slot machine website under 100 dollars everything included (hosting and domain too) and you would be ready to go but that is not the only reason, the fact that people have been developing online casinos for decades now and there has been a lot of crypto casino developers as well, that means there has been a surge of talent, nobody can deny that there are a lot of talented crypto casino developers around nowadays and that causes for them to get more and more jobs which results with more and more casinos.

 Which means during a crisis or not during a crisis, it is a hard damn job to open one up and that is why I honestly think people should be focusing more on the disadvantages of running an online casino rather than the advantages.

I think all gambling business that has online virtuals (horse race, dog race, virtual leagues, number gambling, colors e.t.c) do have lots of tendencies to survive this crisis.
And likewise, gambling business without an online game feature will also survive, the pandemic won't be forever, could just experience  debts.

There are tons of business' that survived from this crisis. Food business for example wasn't really one of them, it is always said that food business will always thrive no matter what the conditions are, nowadays we see that its not true.

We have a place we rent and there a guy makes foods for companies, ready made food that you just serve to your employees everyday, cheaper than building a whole kitchen and hiring cooks and so forth, cheaper than giving them extra money for food, basically cheapest available option to feed your employees without spending too much money. That dude couldn't pay his rent this month, why?

Because, the people he works with also closed shop and declines to pay as well and doesn't want the food since everyone is at home. Gambling is not like that, online gambling will survive even if there is a nuclear war going on outside because in some parts of the world there will be some safe people who will continue gambling.

Most businesses are strugling right now. Even Food businesses with the lockdown suppliers are not allowed to travel even supermarkets have limited number of items each can buy. This pandemic had hit each countries economy real hard not just the gambling sector, but the whole sector. It all depends on the government's measure how thwy will handle the spread, people's panic, scarcity of supply.

Luckily the internet is working but what if there is something like this(pandemic) in the future? Where the frontliner can't fo a single thing because it's impossible? But anyway I don't think something like that would happen in the future not unless there's a mad scientist who will unleashed a deadly virus just to end the humanity.

We are still lucky that this pandemic is not that serious since it can be avoided just by staying away with a crowded places.

That's where you are wrong. It is estimated that casinos just in AC will lose 1.1 billion because of this. When they were closed for 3 days 10+ years ago they lost 55million.


I saw it on a newspaper headline when I was buying toilet paper,  lol

I can't imagine how that city now, perhaps, that city will look like a ghost city that we know. But that is what the government takes rather than to see the increasing number of people who will get infected.

I feel that it is so impossible to know that in Macau, they can recover people, well perhaps, heal people is possible, but they have zero deaths number. How could it be? That makes me suspicious about the spreading of the virus as we know Macau is the largest place of gambling, land of gambling. But nevermind, let the government work.

Funny, bit Macau itself is not really full of people when you go outside, 8 months a year its too hot to be outside and any way, most of the visitors to the main avenue, are indoors in the hotels, malls and casinos. Remember my visits there, it is a ghost city :)

But yes in general, no land based casino %250 increase in Online, strange times indeed.

Keep safe

E Sports could actually continue operating despite of the current world situation right? Because most of the time, people are locked down to their houses, and they are mostly playing video games and mobile games such as mobile legends, Lol, Dota 2 and etc. This means that if a game is proven to be hack free, they can host online tournaments for people especially like us to bet and put our funds into. Well, in just simply asking your friends about gambling online through playing an online match is possible because of cryptocurrency. Why not make it happen for real? It need not to be official.

We have esports tournaments that are being made up to this moment. The tournaments doesn't have to be in any physical location but can be done online and I'm even witnessing that this is a great solution, actually not a solution but they have been doing this ever since.
With their qualifiers.

Can you name some of these tournaments ?because as far as i know almost every Legal Tournaments has been cancelled because even if its Online there are still physical needs for the legitimacy of the game because if this will only be made Online then there can be cheating that might happen along the game so give us some games and we will check of its legit.

But for the online gambling business this is the opportunity for them to become popular to the other player who did not that they have online gambling. Maybe once a traditional player of the offline casino play at online because of the lockdown after this they are going to play more online than the traditonal.We know there is more advatanges because you did not travel to go to the place of the casino or you can play at home.

If you are like a gambling casino the pandemic outbreak really hits your business because you don't have customer because getting afraid about the virus and also there is a rule about social distancing that you need to have one meter away to the nearest people on you, but if you have an online casino or gambling website it is your chance to make more because the people today want to go to the gambling casino so they can make online gambling at their houses they can now play a lot of time and also they will now more comfortable because they don't need to go outside also there is no too much pressure cane from the audience and also the game so it is chill to play.

Lot of people that are used to traditional gambling will begin to look for alternate, and that's when online gambling will takes place. More people are going to discover it, and more people are going to be aware that cryptocurrency is the best way to gamble online, additionally, people will discover no hassle gambling and lot of people will gonna benefit on that including as gamblers and traders.

Online gambling business are going to do great in this kind of this situation.

For CSGO there is this ESL Pro League Season 11.
For Dota2 there is this ESL One LA converted to an online tournament. This tournament is actually a LAN tournament or which by means have a crowd audiences to watch but they have cancelled it because of the threat of the virus.

It depends because if you do try to search up for online gambling sites or on a simple google search then you would end on finding typical fiat online gambling sites listing ex. https://www.casino.org/gambling/

So we cant totally say that people would end up on cryptocurrency yet we know that using fiat online or transactions been existing for too long.So they would either end up on
playing on a crypto gambling site or a typical fiat gambling site.

Overall, in times like this where online businesses will surely survive.

can't all the rl casinos just adapt to online due to the crisis?

I suppose is not that simple, right?

but this will make them (and actually pretty much all business) realize the importance to have online presence and a possibility of scaling their business or at least moving part of it to the digital world.

I understand your point but what I'm saying here is, lottery business will not survive given the current situation. I agree that they have the ability to come back anytime. I'm talking with the lotto regular operators, the usual businessman, and not the lottery head itself where millions of millions of money are kept.

And take note, not all lottery operators do have millions. For them, to come back they need to pull out again decent funds to cover daily operating expenses since I doubt people will buy tickets after to what happened. The work will be tough since aside from daily quota that must be remit to the government, they now need to pay for monthly rents and salaries. In other words, and again, lottery will not survive but as time goes, they can recover.


Yes, I agree with you.

Maybe the convenience too of placing bets is what other people want especially those who aren't an enthusiast of making an online account and be digital all the time.

No, it's not as simple as we think, especially if they don't know anything about the internet. But they can try to hire some programmers, ask them to build the new gambling site from scratch, promote it using social media, and they are good to go. But that is a great idea to ask them to try to use the internet as the second place for their member to still playing gambling. I think some of the casinos already think about that and they need to research more, and if they are open-minded with the technology, then I think that will be possible to them to have the gambling website like the other gambling site.

indeed for now the internet has become a necessity that has become mandatory for all technologies that have evolved to use the internet because it has moved in the digital field meaning that if there is no internet then the digital world will collapse and may return to the stone age where there is no internet at all this might happen when the apocalypse.

this is interesting.. and actually this kind of fear (the internet will die, cut off one day) has appeared in some great thinkers like Elon and other great thinkers. Elon through his SpaceX with Project Starlink (https://www.tweaktown.com/news/68341/spacex-starlink-satellites-offer-internet-mid-2020/index.html) & Mark Zuck with his ambitions (https://time.com/facebook-world-plan/). so I think the possibility of the internet going to disappear in the future is small.  online casino/the like and all online businesses that use the internet are eternal.. cmiiw

There are so many gambling websites that are now being played by many gamblers especially those gambling wesbite such as lottery, roulettes, dice, etc. There is no more e-sports betting because there are so many postponed sports right now because of the virus to prevent the risk of spreading it. To all gamblers out there play stay at home, help our world to kill this virus by not going outside and staying at home.

You may try other online gambling, there are still a lot of available online, but always be wise when choosing one because there are a lot of scammers in gambling websites.

I don't think the internet will die, but I am sure the internet will evolve to something better than today. I don't know about those projects, but if the project can help many people, then that project will grow like the other project. I agree that all businesses which use the internet as their way to promote or grow their business will have a chance to become bigger because they will have a large potential customer who will use their services. That will happens too with the gambling business.

Online business has a lot of benefits that it can offer to its clients. One is they can be accessed anywhere at anytime of the day at the comfort of the customer. Unless the client has no internet connection or the website is down, which happens rarely. And so with online gambling business, you can see their advantage like in this situation we are having. And since in the coming years, internet will just be a norm to almost everyone in our planet, online businesses have great opportunity coming at their doorstep.

Those owner of the casino are don't have choice to closed or stop operating because that is from the government.
Online gambling owner are happy for sure it because most of the player play to their gambling site.
There is a lot of advantages of playing online than old gambling.

Yes, that's not simple. If they will apply that, the next time that they will be open it will reduce their visitors and customers because everyone would just love to stay at home and gamble, same as we do. They are aware of the online competition and it's better for them to remain in their side of being a physical casino, they can provide support for the meantime but there will be consequences that they might not expect whenever they do business online.

Yeah it is not that simple.
They are not made for that.
It will be a lot of work to make it online.
Even when they do it with live streaming it will be a problem or a risk if they will really have the same amount of customers/gamblers as it is with live playing.

The risk of spending more than just waiting for the pandemic to slowly disappear.
Also, they will need employees for it which will be another problem and another expense for test kits.

AC vs Inter virtual derby match (https://www.the-sun.com/sport/premier-league/665755/ac-milan-inter-emilan-derby-live-stream-free-watch-online/)
MotoGP™ Virtual Race #2 (https://www.motogp.com/)
Virtual matches are the best done now (in PANDEMIC crisis conditions), most likely this is the future of sports matches. let me know if there is a bookie from this match  :D

I guess that this year will be a good year to see that the business will have a new form in the online business which will attract or invite offline businesses to try to expand their business on the internet. Almost all people out there know about the internet, and sometimes they are smarter than the other people. So that can help them to try to sell their product using the internet. And I think that can be a new trigger for local gambling places to try to use the internet to launch their brand business using their website to attract more gamblers to play on their new website.

Unfortunealy they have to close business if the government asks them to. But the thing is that owners and investors need not worry since they are already rich as anything.

Not exactly. You have to understand that in order to run an online site you need to have land based developers, support teams and other humans involved in it. These people need to work as well. So if there is a lockdown and they can work from home then its good. But this leads to a lot of logistical problem to the team. Still it is possible to run the site like this.

That is the wrong way of thinking. There is both advantages and disadvantages. Learn to look at things from both sides of the spectrum. ;)