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The government of the Northwest Territory scripted some major changes to the way things are going to be run in 2015. Home buyers, ratepayers and political committees all took a big blow with the start of the New Year, while pubs, clubs and hotels rejoice at the removal of a long-standing cap on poker...

2015 is almost here, and it seems everyone is looking for their own way to ring in the New Year. Some of us go to big parties, others snuggle up to watch the ball drop with a loved one, and then there’s those of us prefer something a little more exciting… like playing online...

Australia is, without a doubt, the largest market for poker machines in the world by population density. This latest story out of Coffs Harbour, NSW, is just another testament to that fact. History was made earlier this month when one extremely lucky player struck the new Megabucks pokies jackpot to the tune of $346,456.17....

An investigation two years in the making has led to the indictment of four prominent New Zealand businessmen. The men have been accused of manipulating the sale of pubs to ensure revenue from the pokies goes towards their own interests, including bonus checks that surreptitiously ended up in their own pockets. In what’s being...

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat. If you consider embezzling $167,000 from your employer cheating, then that common idiom still holds true. A Bundaberg woman blamed a pokies addiction for her crimes when she appeared in court earlier this month to face charges of embezzlement from her former employer. According to the Toowoomba...

Australia is notorious for being home to the highest rate of problem gambling in the world. A radical obstacle deserves a radical approach to its solution, and that’s exactly what researchers have come up with. The Gambling Treatment Clinic at the University of Sydney says the new method is not only showing positive results...

Two years ago, the pokies giants Tatts Group and Tabcorp were enjoying a long-term duopoly over the Victorian poker machine market. That status was swept away in 2012 when the Labor Brumby government took charge and overturned an antiquated law dating back to the 1990’s, allowing clubs and pubs to run their own gambling...

Every so often, we like to explore the winnings of Australia’s luckiest online casino gamers. It not only warms our hearts to know these people have won life altering amount of money, it inspires the rest of us to go out and lay claim to our own superfluous jackpot winnings (in a responsible manner,...

Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. is one of the oldest pokies manufacturers in the world, headquartered right here in Australia for more than 60 years. Competition in the poker machine industry has been increasing for decades, and Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. is generally considered a pioneer in that department, but few expected to see the company go...

Online casinos offer pokies with jackpots of all shapes and sizes. Those empowered with progressives often pay out life-altering amounts on the sporadic occasions when they strike, but none so much as Microgaming’s famed Mega Moolah. That’s what one lucky lady found out last week when she spun the reels of the highest paying...