EXCLUSIVE: A majority of Australians gamble every week and are blowing thousands of dollars a year in the hope of winning cash, alarming new statistics have revealed.
Experts have blamed the boom in online betting agencies behind 60 per cent of Aussies gambling weekly one in five admit they regularly engage in online gambling.
Buying lottery tickets is the most prevalent form of gambling (52 per cent), followed by pokies (20 per cent), horse racing (19 per cent), online betting on sporting matches (18 per cent) and gambling at the casino (14 per cent), Galaxy Research of 1000 Australians revealed.
And its costing the average gambler $3100 every year.
The study, commissioned by debt solutions agency Fox Symes, also found men are more likely …
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