(Cross-posted excerpt from research I did for Raising for Effective Giving.)

Amazingly, no one has ever calculated the full economic impact of poker. Some top line statistics on poker’s annual worldwide economic impact:

• $5.16 billion in economic impact
• 108,240 jobs created directly and indirectly from live poker
• $1.25 billion in direct and indirect tax revenue from live poker
• 11,660 jobs created directly and indirectly from online poker
• $47 million in direct and indirect tax revenue from online poker

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