GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 39 - November 2017

W W W . G P W A T I M E S . O R G 10 What happened first: Gambling online or working in the online gaming industry? Comments from GPWA members: GPWA MEMBER POLL According to a recent GPWA poll, more than three-quarters of our members gamble online. Seventeen percent of us said they gamble several times a week, and nearly 9% said that they make an online wager just about every day. But what came first? Our work promoting online gaming, or a love of gambling? We wanted to find out, so as a follow-up poll, earlier this year we asked our mem- bers to explain their history as a gambler. As seen in the results below, a whopping 63% said that they were already gam- bling online before starting to work in the industry. To read the entire poll thread on the GPWA Forums, visit http://gpwa.org/397 Soplica I gambled first. Between winning and losing I think I lost a lot more. Nevertheless, since I am an affiliate I recovered and multiply all that I lost while gambling. Funny that since I work as an affiliate I lost my appetite to gamble... golfbettingsystem Definitely gambled online first. Still remember using dial-up internet to play Pacific Poker, which used to infuriate my in-laws who couldn’t get through to my missus on the phone for hours on end Renee I didn’t even know you could play online until I started working for Rewards. And to be honest, I didn’t even know what we did until about a month after I started working here. So I’m one of the “worked before playing online” voters. sweetbet I became an affiliate first, and only gambled online when the affiliate program paid the commission into my player account. So I was tempted to place a few wagers yana.marinova I used to play poker with friends and some online freerolls, and blackjack for a short period before I started working in the industry. Didn’t really stick to it afterwards. I’ve never gambled online. I gambled online before I worked in the industry. I worked in the industry before I gambled online. Something else. 63% 17% 11% 9% More than 60% of GPWA members that responded to the poll said that they gambled online before working in the gaming affiliate industry.