Italian public gaming continues to rise: +29.6% in March thanks to Awps and Vlts

In March the gaming collection achieves 7,717 million euro. Winnings achieve 6.114 million euro, while the expenditure was of 1.603 million euro. As usual the amusement machines lead the market, reaching a collection of 4.240 million euro, and 1,810 are for VLTs. The card games organized in form that is not the tournament and games of chance with a fixed share remains also in March at the second place, with 1.117 million euro and 1.087 million euro for winnings.
Lotteries follows with 862 million euro, Lotto with 562 million euro, sport gaming with 383 million euro, superenalotto with 189 million euro, bingo with 149 million euro, skill games with 118 million euro, ending with the horse racing gaming with a collection of 97 million euro, which now decreases month after month.
Videolotteries dictate the rise trend of the field above all and it, thanks to the progressive enhancement of network,  rise from a collection of 2.2 to 5.6 billion euro (+154%) compared with the first quarter of 2011. We must record the very high winning percentage (at 97%) for poker cash and online casinos which are at the second place concerning  of collection with 1.12 billion euro but that gave back to the players about 1.087 billion euro, for a real expenditure of 30 million euro. Also the winnings in poker tournaments settle down on similar percentages (118 million euro invested, 105 of pay out) which recorded an expenditure of 13 million euro in March.