Entertainment Betting New Online Gambling Addiction
And while men fueled the 100 percent growth in the number of online U.S. gamblers last year -- who laid down roughly $6 billion in bets, mainly on casino games and sports -- women made up nearly half of online novelty bettors.
"Women are so obsessed with celebrities these days, they spend so much time reading the gossip pages and are so invested in it that they figure they may as well put down money since they are following it so closely anyway," said Sindall.
Samantha Lomac, 26, from Forest Hills, N.Y., is far more comfortable betting on celebs like Texan Anna Nicole Smith than on games like Texas Hold'em.
May 16, 2006
Posted By Skip Davis
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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