Perth nixes pokies
February 17, 2006 on 11:57 am | In Slot machine articles online |Western Australia is the lone Australian State to have no video slot machines as such. They do have 523 assorted video poker machines and mechanical slots. Western Australia is about the size of Western Europe. Some people have to travel long distances to play.
This was covered in a previous post on this blog:
PBL, the owner of Burswood Casino - which has all 500+ gaming machines in the state - wants to increase its machine count considerably by introducing proper pokies/slot machines. Its chief met with Western Australian politicians recently:
“Mr Packer met Premier Alan Carpenter on Monday in a failed attempt to get the Government to overturn its ban on traditional poker machines ….. Mr Packer made it clear pokies were the only way PBL could fund a $500 million expansion of the casino.”
They could also possibly fund it using the massive pokies profits generated by PBL’s Crown Casino in Melbourne, but thats beside the point.
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