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Tasmania to introduce mandatory limits for pokies players — but experts see too many loopholes – ABC News
Tasmanian gamblers in premium player programs will be forced to set a yearly limit on their pokies losses, but people like Robert…
Eleven years ago, Robert Kreshl was living on the streets of Hobart, sick with pneumonia and pleurisy, $17,000 in debt and addicted to poker machines.
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