Patent ID: 8393948

Claim:
A method comprising: determining to add players to an online communal wagering game associated with a wagering game provider; determining that social network user accounts are available to play in the online communal wagering game as the players, wherein the social network user accounts are associated with one or more social network providers; providing game data to the one or more social network providers, wherein the game data is associated with the online communal wagering game; receiving account connection data for the social network user accounts; connecting the social network user accounts to a wagering game session for the online communal wagering game using the account connection data; determining geographic locations associated with the social network user accounts; determining jurisdictional rules for conducting wagering games for the geographic locations; controlling wagering functions associated with a first of the social network user accounts connected to the online communal wagering game via the wagering game session based on a first of the jurisdictional rules; and controlling non-monetary wagering functions associated with a second of the social network user accounts connected to the online communal wagering game based on a second of the jurisdictional rules associated with a second of the geographic locations associated with the second of the social network user accounts.