New knowledge reveals Victorians have misplaced tens of billions of dollars on poker machines since they had been launched within the state.
The figures present greater than $66 billion was gambled and misplaced on pokies in previous 30 years.
Alliance for Playing Reform's Anna Bardsley mentioned she remembered considering the machines had been innocent.
"They had been marketed as being a little bit of enjoyable," she mentioned.
"I went just a few instances a yr with a gaggle of girls for a ladies' evening out."
Bardsley mentioned she ended up hooked on playing for greater than 10 years.
"I used to yell at myself 'simply cease, simply cease simply cease'," she mentioned.
"I might however then I might be again in once more."
Simply 30 years in the past, 10,000 poker machines had been launched in Victoria. There at the moment are 30,000, principally in suburban pubs and golf equipment.
Hawthorn RSL Sub Department Vice President Eamon Hale mentioned whereas it made sense to have pokies within the Nineties, that was now not the case.
"The RSL must divest itself as a result of gaming is not going to proceed to be acquired properly by the neighborhood," he mentioned.
Chatting with the media on Sunday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews would not be drawn on if the staggering losses meant extra reforms had been wanted.
"I am not right here to speak about gaming coverage," he mentioned.
"I'm not right here to announce any adjustments to that. Individuals could make their very own judgements."
Laws is being deliberate for later this yr to place spend and deadlines on poker machines at Crown On line casino following the Royal Fee.
Anti-pokies campaigners need these limits throughout the board.
"We have to cut back the opening hours. If we may cut back the variety of machines that'd be even higher," Bardsley mentioned.
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