By The Weekly Edge desk ·
iGamingToday reported that Tasmania’s 2025–26 poker machine losses reached $208.27m, increasing 6.9% year-on-year. Treasury figures put the total above all previous years in the published monthly series.
The figures show increased annual player losses on Tasmanian poker machines.
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