Posts Tagged ‘pokies’

How To Stop Playing Online Pokies?

Online casino game developers suggest games with new themes, top-notch graphics, and audio quality so that the players would love to keep playing online pokies for many hours. Excessive play of online pokies can lead to psychological disorder financial strain, and risk of losing everything to chase wins or prove a point. Online pokies refers […]

Pokies $1 limit ‘favoured’

Illustration: Ron Tandberg. Battle lines are being redrawn over reform of gaming in Australia, with a groundswell of support for a move to put a $1 bet limit on the nation’s 200,000 poker machines. The Greens yesterday launched a policy favouring $1 bet limits on all machines. This is in contrast to the proposal by […]

Clubs have less to lose on pokies betting trial

Playing it down … chief executive of Clubs Australia, Anthony Ball. LICENSED clubs have offered public support for a trial of compulsory betting controls for poker machines after fresh evidence emerged suggesting the clubs have exaggerated likely financial losses caused by the proposed measures. After months of trenchant opposition to the prospect of mandatory measures, […]

Labor in spin over pokies

Targeted … Federal Attorney General Robert McClelland. Photo: Andrew Sheargold THE Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, has joined the growing ranks of Labor MPs anxious about poker machine reforms, saying clubs are justified in demanding more information to show the changes will work and that there should first be a trial. Mr McClelland, who is being targeted […]

AFL clubs fight to keep pokies

FOOTY clubs will tell the AFL today they stand to lose tens of millions of dollars if the Gillard Government’s poker machine reforms are introduced. AFL presidents have data showing that if gamblers had to set limits on pokie losses, league-affiliated clubs and pubs could lose $54 million. The Federal Government has promised independent MP […]

No pokies backflip: Salvos

THE Salvation Army has denied it has backflipped in its support for poker machine reforms after a report said it had announced it did not back Andrew Wilkie’s mandatory precommitment scheme, favouring a voluntary scheme. Sydney’s Daily Telegraph yesterday reported that the Salvation Army wanted a voluntary system with a trial of a mandatory system […]

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