Punters have injected more than $38 million into Bendigo’s poker machines since July last year.
Statistics released this week show the city’s poker machines swallowed more than $3.7 million in April.
Poker machines in Bendigo have consumed about $38.2 million since July 2010 – $1 million more than the previous year. The city’s highest spending was $46.5 million during the 2008-09 financial year.
In April, spending was almost $130,000 more than the same month last year.
Poker machine statistics for Bendigo show that for every month between August 2010 and April this year, the municipality’s machines swallowed more money than the same month a year earlier.
Punters injected more than $44 million into poker machines in the municipality during the 2009-10 financial year.
Bendigo’s poker machines swallowed $43 million during 2007-08 and $43.4 million during 2006-07.
There are 547 poker machines in the municipality.
The Foundry Hotel received permission earlier this year to install 30 poker machines.
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