Although internet betting was the game of chance that sold the most in Colombia, it was not the one that generated the most income for the State, since the percentage of exploitation rights paid is lower than the others. In just the third quarter of 2022, online games represented 33% of the collections for exploitation rights for Coljuegos.
The three main Online Betting operators are leaders with the majority of active accounts,
Coljuegos, there are 7,004,174 online player accounts in Colombia
Wplay
Its headquarters are located in Medellín, in the Monterrey Shopping Center and it is owned by the Paisa businessman Julio Cesar Tamayo Betancur who is associated with the Israeli Moshe Asraffue. Wplay has been developed thanks to alliances with international companies such as ORYX Gaming of the Canadian Bragg Gaming Group and Greentube, the interactive division of the Austrian gaming giant Novomatic.
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Jaime Esparza, with BetPlay is the undisputed leader of online games in Colombia
The second operator, three months later, would be BetPlay owned by Corredor Empresarial, who allied with Wazdan based on the island of Malta, with more than 10 years of experience in internet gaming technology. Business Broker that operates from Bogotá has around 2 million active accounts on its platform, and betting growth was at least 70% between 2020 and 2021.
Corredor Empresarial was born in 2008 as a result of an alliance between the Online Betting Company, later renamed Gelsa - Grupo Empresarial en Línea, with several permanent or chance betting operators, with the aim of marketing innovative games. Jaime Esparza Rhenals, is the president of Gelsa (operator of the chance concession in Bogotá and Cundinamarca and the PagaTodo Multiservice Network) and leads the board of directors of Corredor Empresarial.
RushBet
Richard Schwartz, entered as the tenth online gaming operator and has taken a significant slice of the market
The Rushbet.co brand is owned by the company Rush Street Interactive Colombia, founded in Bogotá in November 2017, to bid with Coljuegos, becoming the first US company to operate in the online sports games market. in Latin America. Rushbet is owned by the North American Rush Street Interactive – RSI, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2012 by gaming industry veterans Neil Bluhm, Greg Carlin and Richard Schwartz, and who at the end of 2016 ventured into online gaming with the site PlaySugarHouse.com. RSI, leader in the online casino and sports betting market in the United States.
