Sentence examples for pokie machine from inspiring English sources

A Google Drive shared between staff at 400 Australian pubs owned by Woolworths contains highly personal information about regular pokie machine users, Fairfax reports.

The synergy of clicking buttons and midi melodies from a pokie machine would often ignite a silent prayer in the heretics; a hopeful shortcut to riches, quickly interrupted by a declined ATM withdrawal.

There would be no pokie machines; no great unwashed gambling away their wages.

It's a different story for the company with exclusive rights to run Keno and pokie machines in Tasmania.

Our favourite codes, like rugby union and AFL, hived off free-to-air and put on pay TV? What about the growing gap between our rich and poor clubs competing in the same league, propped up by pokie machines?

After dragging Brian off the pokie machines (card gambling on the computer. I'll say it again - these things are dangerous, do not touch) we got someone to take a picture of us and the black stuff, and my evening's mission was accomplished.

It earns millions in annual revenue from around 12,000 pokies machines nationwide.

A study of national gambling habits in 2008-2009, found that Australians collectively lost around $12 billion to pokies machines in that financial year.

clarionhotelsoho.com.au Driven mad by the beeping pokies (slot machines) that ruin many an Aussie pub, three game gals took over the Wheatsheaf Hotel in dodgy Theberton.

Unfortunately, the modern face of gambling is not quite so noble or patriotic, often involving working-class Australians feeding their meagre earnings into electronic poker machines, or "pokies".

According to an analysis of poker machine gambler's habits published in BMC Public Health journal last year, pokie gamblers (just in pubs and clubs) in NSW and Victoria lose about $3,500 per year (or around $65 per week).