Gamblers in NSW are losing a staggering $24 million to poker machines every day, says a charity advocating beefed-up regulations on pokies.
Wesley Mission crunched the numbers from state government gambling figures and found poker machine losses skyrocketed to $2.17 billion in the first 90 days of this year.
Communities in western Sydney incurred some of the highest average losses of more than $3200 per person annually.
The charity group says the results of its analysis shows the NSW government is failing to protect people from serious gambling harm.
Wesley Mission chief executive Rev Stu Cameron says it…