Integrating social communities and wagering games

A gaming system configured to provide one or more regulated wagering games, said gaming system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• at least one wagering game outcome generator configured to generate one or more random wagering game outcomes for the one or more regulated wagering games;
• and
• at least one memory unit configured to store instructions which, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming system to perform operations to
• detect a request sent from a client device to the gaming system via a communications network, said request to place a side wager on at least one of the one or more random wagering game outcomes to be generated by the at least one random outcome generator for a communal wagering game, wherein the request is made by one of a plurality of social network user accounts associated with the client device, and wherein the communal wagering game is one of the one or more regulated wagering games provided by the gaming system,
• detect that a jurisdictional rule, associated with one or more of the plurality of social network user accounts, prohibits a characteristic of the side wager for a jurisdiction in which the client device is located,
• alter the characteristic of the side wager to comport with the jurisdictional rule, and
• place the side wager after altering the characteristic.

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

• detecting a request sent from a client device to a gaming system via a communications network, said request to place a side wager on one or more potential, random wagering game outcomes to be generated by the gaming system for a communal wagering game, wherein the request is made by one of a plurality of social network user accounts, and wherein the communal wagering game is one of one or more regulated wagering games provided by the gaming system;
• detecting that a jurisdictional rule, associated with one or more of the plurality of social network user accounts, prohibits a characteristic of the side wager for a jurisdiction in which the client device is located;
• altering the characteristic of the side wager to comport with the jurisdictional rule;
• and
• placing the side wager after altering the characteristic.