Casino Games and Gambling in Scandinavia
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Scandinavians are happy to play games with a small chance of winning more. Scandinavians spend between 1-5% of their disposable income on lottery tickets, sweepstakes or other forms of betting each year.
People of Scandinavia generally have a positive attitude towards gambling. Most people do not consider gambling as a problem. Gaming laws are quite similar in all Scandinavian countries.
There are three main cities in Sweden with casinos: Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo. Outside of that, the only games available in the country are casino-style games and lotteries. The state-owned gambling company Svenska Spel has recently started offering poker games on the web. PokerStars and Full Tilt are two most popular sites for Swedish players to play online poker.
Norwegian people can play casino games at Oslo's Tjuvholmen and in Stavanger. The government plans to approve more casinos in the future. Online casinos are popular with Norwegians. Australia and the UK are big favorites for Norwegian online gamblers.
Finland has a liberalized gaming market where almost all forms of gambling and betting are allowed and regulated by the government. Most of Finnish people who visit a legal online casino prefer to play slots.
Denmark is similar to Finland in that there is a wide variety of legal gambling services offered by both online and land based casinos. The majority of customers prefer to play classic casino games such as roulette, poker or blackjack at land-based casinos, but you can also play slots at regulated legal online casinos in Denmark. In the Netherlands, the liberalisation of online casino has made them so popular.
Iceland is not a significant gambling market. Most people in Iceland are puritanical and there is no public support for legalised gaming. Casino games and gambling are restricted to foreign owned cruise ships visiting Reykjavik.
There are no casinos in Faroe Islands. There is only the possibility to play on cruise ships with a casino establishment on deck.
