A new study which has been carried out by H2 Gambling Capital, a British consultancy, has taken a look at which countries around the world gamble the most – and it turns out that Australians are the people who bet more than any other nationality. Not only that, but they also found that they bet more even if they lost more when they were playing. In total last year, Australians lost $21.5 billion, and one of the main factors was through playing baccarat online – as well as the so-called pokies, or slot machine games, which are of course also very popular in the country.
The report stated that the biggest chunk of the gambling money is actually spent on video poker machines, although they are not placed the highest in the world when it comes to those games thanks to tighter regulation – they are actually in sixth place in that list. “Gambling is just like eucalyptus oil – it’s natural,” Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce Chairman Tim Costello told AAP. “But in Australia we’ve allowed gambling to proliferate more than anyone else in the world.” This is of course fantastic news for the large companies who run the casinos in the country, whether they are land-based or online, as it means that they can count on being able to take more of a profit from the casino floor itself than other venues could. And it has a great effect on the way that the country is run too, as there are plenty of ways in which the revenue earned through tax helps to benefit the actual citizens of the country. “State and territory governments in Australia derive an average 10 percent or more of their taxation revenue from legalised gambling,” says Michael Moore, the chief executive officer of the Public Health Association of Australia, who is interested in this issue as he wishes to ensure that responsible gaming is always promoted amongst Australians.
Perhaps it is no surprise that Israeli and gamble more than any other country in the world when we look at the famous high profile faces from the casino industry there. After all, James Packer, the casino mogul who is behind the Crown Casino brand, is always taking a gamble on opening up a new casino in a new market which has not been tried before. Not only is this a successful approach which has driven his company onto higher and higher profits and made him one of the richest people in Australia, but it also demonstrates a willingness to take a risk which appears to be something that proliferates amongst all of his countrymen as well. Why it is exactly that Australians like to gamble more than any other nation is something that leads to have more in-depth studies conducted into it for us to understand it properly, but for now the information is enough to make online casino operators and prospective land-based operators know exactly where they should be targeting next.