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Online poker popularity growing in Italy
 August 27, 2008, 8:41 am (3 years ago)Online poker is an amusement quickly getting ground among Italian gamblers, it looks that from an examination done lately by the Consumers Defense and Orientation Association (ADOC) and announced this week by the Agipronews agency. The examination showed that Italians customers yearly used an average of Euros 600 each on Internet gambling, producing a total annual spend of Euros 350 million.
Almost 2 million Italian residents have gone online no less than once to play a game of opportunity on the Internet, with a quarter of that number utilizing outside Internet gambling websites for this movement. With the Italian government balanced to legalize, license and control online gambling the examination is going to be read with interest by a lot involved in the market.
Agipronews states in an announcement that the online gaming occurrence progressively more attracts Italian people, with visits to foreign gambling websites up 25 %. ADOC reports that 16 000 Italian citizens 'might be considered' to have gambling problems with an average level of debt that varies between Euros 10 000 and Euros 12 000, in special cases hitting Euros 40 000.
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