Sports betting has now evolved into far more appealing forms thanks to the internet. One of the earliest traditional gambling ‘sports’ was cockfighting, a game that involves two or more fighting roosters. Indeed, the Philippines has a long history of betting games.īets (legal or illegal) became popular during migrations and old trade-free times.
However, no one knows when or where it initially started. Gambling was known to exist before the arrival of the Spaniards. History of sports betting in the Philippines