Taking a Look at Australian Online Gambling Site Chumba Casino from Virtual Gaming Worlds

Added: January 18, 2014

Virtual Gaming Worlds is a Perth based startup venture, operated by Laurence Escalante. Virtual Gaming Worlds is attempting to merge the online gaming market, with online gambling, and has launched a new online casino site named Chumba Casino.

Now, this is a pretty tough nut to crack, as online gambling is basically pretty much completely illegal in Australia, unless the online gambling site in question has been locally licensed. So this is likely to be an ongoing story, as it is entirely possible that Virtual Gaming Worlds will hit a legal brick wall at some stage.

Setting the legality of Chumba Casino aside, let’s look at what the whole take on online casino play is that Virtual Gaming Worlds is working towards. Basically, the founders were heavy MMORPG players, and they were amazed that they could be anywhere in the world, and still team up to tackle quests and raids. However, they could not do the same with online gambling, they could not recreate their Friday night poker games online. And this is the whole idea behind Chumba Casino, a real live poker environment simulated online.

Laurence Escalante tells us that, “We were pretty heavy MMO (massively multiplayer online) players. When they moved over (to Melbourne), I found it amazing that we could go on a quest and go on a massive raid and couldn’t replicate that virtual poker room for real money cash prizes as we had sitting in my dining room. I did a bit of research into it and why the online worlds of gaming and gambling hadn’t intersected. I have a bit of experience in online gaming so found it amazing – the more I looked into the opportunity the more I wanted to do something about it. So I raised some money and I built it.”

So, we have a very bright guy, with a bunch of friends who enjoy playing games online, and an idea for a new online casino. Not just any old online casino, but one that attempts to replicated real live play. This is possibly the most progressive of all online gambling sites around, and we will certainly keep a close eye on the antics of Laurence Escalante, Virtual Gaming Worlds and Chumba Casino. It could well be that this bright young man is going to show the online casino industry exactly where it needs to be heading in the coming few years.