
Online bingo gambling is a much appreciated entertainment for Spaniards and even the hot summers can't stop them from playing bingo online. Especially because of their different working schedule in the summer, when it is very hot, one of the online bingo sites, Juega Bingo Ya produced statistics showing that peak times for playing bingo during the summer months was from 3am until 5am.
This shows that the demand for playing bingo online has not diminished but instead shifted to cooler hours of the morning. Spanish government decided recently on a new law for the bingo halls. Bingo halls had to abide to a smoking ban that requires them to have separated areas for players that smoke and for players that don’t. This affected the online bingo gambling too, but in a positive way.
Since the smoking ban was introduced in bingo halls, the number of players that visited land bases bingo halls decreased by 4,6%. Instead, one of the most popular online bingo sites, Juega Bingo Ya reported an increase of 24% so far this year (2007).
It seems that the Spanish love numbers and games of luck like online bingo and lottery games. One of the biggest lottery markets in the world is the Spanish El Gordo. Their love for bingo and lottery games translates in figures of some Euro 4.2 billion estimated by the year 2010, with Spain’s large gambling market set to reach some 39 billion by the same year.
Indeed these statistics tell us one thing only. Online bingo games and lottery games are a hot commodity in Spain, almost as hot as the weather, with no signs of cooling down.