{"id":2623,"date":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/colombian-gambling-news\/online-wagers-in-colombia-this-is-the-cake-among-the-first\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","slug":"online-wagers-in-colombia-this-is-the-cake-among-the-first","status":"publish","type":"gambling","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/colombian-gambling-news\/online-wagers-in-colombia-this-is-the-cake-among-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Online wagers in Colombia, this is the cake among the first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">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.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">In just the third quarter of 2022, online games represented 33% of the collections for exploitation rights for Coljuegos. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/online-wagers-in-colombia-this-is-the-cake-among-the-first2.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">The three main Online Betting operators are leaders with the majority of active accounts,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0563c1\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/colombian-gambling-news\/7004174-user-accounts-in-colombia-for-sports-wagers-coljuegos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Coljuegos, there are 7,004,174 online player accounts<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> in Colombia <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"><strong>Wplay<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/online-wagers-in-colombia-this-is-the-cake-among-the-first3.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Its headquarters are located in Medell&iacute;n, 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.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"><strong>betplay <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/online-wagers-in-colombia-this-is-the-cake-among-the-first4.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">Jaime Esparza, with BetPlay is the undisputed leader of online games in Colombia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">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.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Business Broker that operates from Bogot&aacute; has around 2 million active accounts on its platform, and betting growth was at least 70% between 2020 and 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Corredor Empresarial was born in 2008 as a result of an alliance between the Online Betting Company, later renamed Gelsa &#8211; Grupo Empresarial en L&iacute;nea, with several permanent or chance betting operators, with the aim of marketing innovative games.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">Jaime Esparza Rhenals, is the president of Gelsa (operator of the chance concession in Bogot&aacute; and Cundinamarca and the PagaTodo Multiservice Network) and leads the board of directors of Corredor Empresarial.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"><strong>RushBet <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/online-wagers-in-colombia-this-is-the-cake-among-the-first5.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:small\">Richard Schwartz, entered as the tenth online gaming operator and has taken a significant slice of the market <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">The Rushbet.co brand is owned by the company Rush Street Interactive Colombia, founded in Bogot&aacute; in November 2017, to bid with Coljuegos, becoming the first US company to operate in the online sports games market.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">in Latin America. Rushbet is owned by the North American Rush Street Interactive &ndash; 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<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">PlaySugarHouse.com.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:large\">RSI, leader in the online casino and sports betting market in the United States.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three main Online Betting operators are leaders with the majority of active accounts,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2624,"menu_order":373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[816],"class_list":{"0":"post-2623","1":"gambling","2":"type-gambling","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-the-three-main-online-betting-operators-are-leaders-with-the-majority-of-active-accounts","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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