NSW Pulls Plug On Pokies Operating During 'High Risk' Hours

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• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Awesome, now do the other 18 hours.

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  • dai@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m leaving hospo after almost 20 years at it. 

    Some pubs around my area have 500k in each redemption terminal and 750k in each atm. 

    They give out complementary food, have draws for people who get the spins during a timeframe and will pick a winner once a week if they are playing a randomly drawn machine at a certain timeframe. A couple around here do free alcohol in a window (which is highly illegal but they won’t get caught). 

    The machines are a blight on NSW, but that government are completely OK with having another idiot tax around which legitimizes having such large pokie dens in our society. 

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    • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are the venues lively though? My only real experience with pokies was a cruise ship casino, and it was so depressing. Just a bunch of bored looking people mindlessly hitting the button.

      No amount of raffles and free food makes that sound like a place to be

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