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Online casinos, also known as virtual casinos or Internet casinos, are online versions of traditional ("brick and mortar") casinos.

Online casinos enable gamblers to play and wager on casino games through the Internet.

It is a prolific form of online gambling.

Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome.

The frequency of sports bet upon varies by culture, with the vast majority of bets being placed on association football, American football, basketball, baseball, hockey, mixed martial arts, track cycling, and boxing at both the amateur and professional levels.

Sports betting can also extend to non-athletic events, such as reality show contests and political elections, and non-human contests such as horse racing, greyhound racing and illegal, underground dog fighting.

A lottery is a form of legalized government gambling that involves the drawing of numbers for a prize.

Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery.

It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments; the most common regulation is prohibition of sale to minors.

Though lotteries were common in the United States and some other countries during the 19th century, by the beginning of the 20th century, most forms of gambling, including lotteries and sweepstakes, were illegal in the U.S. and most of Europe as well as many other countries.

This remained so until well after World War II.

In the 1960s casinos and lotteries began to re-appear throughout the world as a means for governments to raise revenue without raising taxes.

Gambling is the of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money and/or material goods.

Gambling thus requires three elements be present: consideration, chance and prize.

The outcome of the is often immediate, such as a single roll of dice, a spin of a roulette wheel, or a horse crossing the finish line, but longer time frames are also common, allowing wagers on the outcome of a future sports contest or even an entire sports season.

Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games.

In a casino game, the players gamble casino chips on various possible random outcomes or combinations of outcomes.

Casino games are also available in online casinos, where permitted by law.

Casino games can also be played outside of casinos for entertainment purposes like in parties or in school competitions, some on machines that simulate gambling.