While real-money gambling is only getting turned on in the UK version of the iOS app, users in other markets like the U.S. Card Ace already had one million active players, all of whom will transition to the newly-rebranded edition of the game. In-game gambling apps would complement real-money betting apps, many from existing off-track betting shops, already available in the UK App Store.īig Fish Casino is the relaunch of Card Ace: Casino, an app made by Self Aware Studios, which was bought by Big Fish in March.

Up to now, Betable has been operating in private alpha, and this appears to be the first public application of its betting engine in a public service. The gambling back end for Big Fish Casino will come from Betable, the social betting company that has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from a select group of investors including Greylock, CrunchFund, Yuri Milner’s Start Fund, Founders Fund, True Ventures, Path co-founder Dave Morin, former Wikia CEO Gil Penchina, Delicious’ Josh Schachter, StockTwits’ Howard Lindzon and LOLApps former CEO Arjun Sethi. The news comes just one week after the introduction of the first real-money gambling app on Facebook (also in the UK) and at the same time that a report has emerged of Zynga lobbying hard to get in-game gambling cleared in the U.S., too. This may be a first for the App Store, but it’s part of a growing interest in real-money gambling. Today, when games developer Big Fish launched a new iPhone app called Big Fish Casino, it announced it would raise the stakes in the UK by introducing real-money gambling into it (courtesy of well-backed gambling platform Betable) - making this the first time that a real-money gambling game will be available in the App Store. Would you like to bet on what may be the next big thing in games? Place a wager on real-money gambling, and you could be in for some good returns.

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