![]() ![]() Thirty years later, I worked near a suburban hotel in Melbourne and one year went to that pub for a Christmas meal. ![]() It was a lot of money, but as he said, he had put small change into the machines over 20-odd years. I never met anybody, except my mate's dad, who won big on a poker machine. ![]() He was in love so he always handed over the cash. I also saw my mate's girlfriend put her whole pay packet through a machine in an hour a few times at that club. We used to have dinner there about four times a week we could get a huge plate of fried rice to feed two very cheaply. Everybody who was a member of the club got a huge benefit from the machines. The machines funded cheap food, movies, full-size billiard tables, a swimming pool and exercise machines. It had lots of people putting money into poker machines. I spent a lot of time in the 1970s at a Sydney leagues club. ![]()
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