Integrating social communities and wagering games

One or more non-transitory machine-readable media having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a set of one or more processors causes the set of one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• connecting a first social network user account and a second social network user account to a gaming session for a communal wagering game;
• determining a request associated with the first social network user account to place a side-wager against the second social network user account for the communal wagering game;
• detecting a jurisdictional rule associated with a geographic location associated with the second social network user account;
• determining that the jurisdictional rule prohibits a characteristic of the side-wager for the second social network user account;
• and
• altering the characteristic of the side-wager to comport with the jurisdictional rule.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory unit configured to store instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to
• determine that social network user accounts hosted by one or more social network servers are available to play in an online communal wagering game hosted by a wagering game server,
• receive connection data from the one or more social network servers, wherein the connection data is associated with the social network user accounts,
• connect the social network user accounts to a wagering game session via use of the connection data,
• provide communal wagering game content to the one or more social network servers after the social network user accounts are connected,
• transact the online communal wagering game according to user input associated with the social network user accounts,
• determine, based on the connection data, a first geographic locations associated with a first of the social network user accounts and a second geographic location associated with a second of the social network user accounts,
• detect that first jurisdictional rules associated with the first geographic location are different from second jurisdictional rules associated with the second geographic location,
• control, within the online communal wagering game, monetary wagering functions for the first of the social network user accounts based on the first jurisdictional rules, and
• control non-monetary wagering functions for the second of the social network user accounts based on the second jurisdictional rules.

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a social network gaming module configured to, via the processor,
• connect a first social network user account to a gaming session for an online communal wagering game based on first account connection data that connects the first social network user account to a social network provider, wherein the online communal wagering game is hosted by a wagering game provider,
• connect a second social network user account to the gaming session for the online communal wagering game based on second account connection data,
• determine a request via the first social network user account to transact an exchange of one or more non-cash items with the second social network user account, wherein the one or more non-cash items are usable in the online communal wagering game,
• determine an agreement associated with the first social network account and the second social network user account regarding terms of an exchange of the one or more non-cash items, and
• transact the exchange of the one or more non-cash items for the first social network user account and the second social network user account according to the terms of the exchange.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for connecting a first social network user account and a second social network user account to a gaming session for a communal wagering game;
• means for determining that a first jurisdictional rule, for a first geographic location associated with the first social network user account, permits monetary wagering in the communal wagering game;
• means for determining that a second jurisdictional rule, for a second geographic location associated with the second social network user account, prohibits monetary wagering in the communal wagering game;
• and
• means for providing a non-monetary wagering alternative for the second social network user account to wager in the communal wagering game, which non-monetary wagering alternative comports with the second jurisdictional rule.