In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the Italian gambling market and we have witnessed major changes in the taxation and regulation of gambling, as well as the introduction of new technological supports (e.g. the internet, mobile and fixed telephony, dedicated TV channels,...

We analyze differences in gambling motivations for skill and luck gamblers on the basis of a questionnaire distributed to a sample of university students. We find that the probability of playing skill rather than luck games is positively correlated to being a male, to the socialization motive...