Gin Rummy Doing Well For Game Account
Published: Friday, July 15, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
GIN RUMMY DOING WELL FOR GAME ACCOUNT
Good business through an old favourite on a thoroughly modern platform
Skill gaming provider Game Account reports that its online Gin Rummy is showing
the potential to generate significant player numbers and cash wagering tournaments.
The company claimed this week that its Gin Rummy game is mimicking the growth
so commonly associated with the poker phenomenon.
Sophisticated turn-based multiplayer games are helping to increase skill player
value. Gin Rummy players are now spending double the amount of GameAccount’s
casual games player, with an average Gin Rummy player generating $50+ revenue
per month compared to $25+ spent by an average skill gamer.
According to GameAccount Marketing Director Kevin O’Neal, peer-to-peer
(P2P) games like Gin Rummy are proving to be very popular with recreational
gamblers as well as traditional game players, attracting an even broader audience
than poker.
The increasing popularity of Gin Rummy may be attributed to the high numbers
of players from the United States. Gin Rummy is a skill game, and skill games
are legal in the US.
“Because skill gaming is legal in many US states, it can advertise its
presence to a US audience. So traditional skill games like Gin Rummy are instantly
recognisable and have become popular in this new sector. Ultimately, skill gaming
is a way to introduce soft gamers to gambling online,” O’Neal added.
Game Account says the online skill games market is currently worth $269 million
per annum and has demonstrated such a substantial rate of growth that it is
expected to reach $526 million by 2007.
