Australian poker players drawn to luck-based gambling products

Australia’s poker players are irredeemable gambling degenerates, especially when it comes to their participation in other gambling activities, according to new research.

The Australian Gambling Research Centre (AGRC) published a report last week that draws poker-specific data from last November’s Gambling Activity in Australia report, which was based on the 2015 Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey.

This latest AGRC report indicates there are roughly 132k Aussie adults who regularly gamble on poker. That’s only around 0.8% of Australian adults and just 1.9% of those who gamble in a typical month, making poker the least popular regular activity among the 10 most common gambling activities in the survey.

However, poker players spend an average of A$1,758 (US$1,390) per year on their game of choice, the highest average of the top-10 gambling activities in the survey. By comparison, Aussie sports bettors spent an average of A$1,032 per year on wagering.