IPhone用户将很快能手机玩真钱赌博游戏

　　IPhone用户将很快能够通过虚拟老虎机实现真钱赌博，通过他们的食指尝试他们的运气。

　　大鱼游戏引入了一种版本的赌博应用大鱼赌场现金投注在英国，它是合法的，西雅图公司说。在未来几周内，我们将在苹果的应用程序使用它，betable，伦敦的一个伙伴的大鱼，将赌注押在计划过程。

　　游戏开发者正在建设的数字版本的拉斯维加斯赌场为智能手机用户和片，到2017年预计每年下注100000000000美元，超过去年的20000000000美元，杜松研究估计。潜在的支付使得大鱼和其他开发商急于取代虚拟货币与真正的现金在应用程序，即使使用赌博的限制，在美国可能会受到限制。

　　“因为互联网的出现，这是游戏开发商获得的最大的机会，”betable的首席执行官克里斯托弗说。

　　大鱼很可能不久就要面对来自Zynga的竞争，Zynga是社交游戏的最大生产商，其上月表示，它计划在2013上半年推出现金投注。

　　限制互联网赌博在美国也会减少，一些国家，包括加利福尼亚，内华达州和新泽西，正在考虑立法合法化的做法。

　　在英国，包括必发集团，和威廉山在内的公司，目前有赌博的iPhone应用程序。今年betable正在与许多其他游戏厂商合作，准备推出真钱游戏，格里芬说。

　　大鱼赌场可使用户提供信用卡号码投注。betable和大鱼将瓜分这块“蛋糕”，或者可以说是每个老虎机上作出的金额下注……即使苹果的店面举办越来越多的赌场软件，在其应用程序方面，公司不采取削减销售赌博，苹果公司的发言人汤姆纽梅尔说。

　　游戏允许在应用程序商店，只要他们遵守当地法律，梅尔说，他还拒绝具体评论大鱼。

　　“在这方面苹果要保持手臂的长度，”大鱼的首席执行官保罗说，一年半前，首席执行官的大鱼。“在赌博活动中他们不想成为中间人。”

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　　IPhone users will soon be able to gamble with real money on virtual slot machines, trying their luck with the swipe of an index finger.

　　Big Fish Games is introducing a version of its gambling application Big Fish Casino with real-money betting in the U.K., where it is legal, the Seattle-based company said. It will arrive in Apple’s App Store in the coming weeks, and Betable, a London-based partner of Big Fish, will process bets in the program.

　　Game developers are building digital versions of Las Vegas casinos as users of smartphones and tablets are expected to wager $100 billion annually on the devices by 2017, up from about $20 billion last year, estimates Juniper Research. That potential payout has made Big Fish and other developers eager to replace virtual currencies with real cash in apps, even though use may be limited by gambling restrictions in the U.S.

　　“This is the biggest opportunity that game developers have had since the advent of the Internet,” said Betable's Chief Executive Officer Christopher Griffin.

　　Big Fish may soon face competition from Zynga, the largest maker of social games, which last month said it plans to introduce real-money betting in the first half of 2013.

　　Restrictions on Internet gambling in the U.S. may also ease, as several states, including California, Nevada and New Jersey, are considering legislation to legalize the practice.

　　In the U.K., companies including Betfair Group, and William Hill currently have gambling in iPhone apps. Betable is working with dozens of other game makers to debut real-money games this year, Griffin said.

　　Big Fish Casino enables users to provide credit card numbers to place bets. Betable and Big Fish will divide the “take,” or the amount made on each slot machine wager.

　　Even as Apple’s storefront plays host to an increasing number of casino apps, the company isn’t taking a cut of sales from gambling in its apps, Tom Neumayr, a spokesman for Apple, said.

　　Games are permitted in the App Store as long as they comply with local laws, said Neumayr, who declined to comment specifically on Big Fish.

　　“Apple wants to keep arms’ length from this,” said Paul Thelen, CEO of Big Fish. “They don’t want to be the middleman in a gambling operation.”