Top 25 NSW pokies hotels rake in $253m

The state's top 25 pokie pubs, all based in the greater Sydney region, raked in nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in profit in the past financial year, it has been revealed.

Liquor and Gaming NSW published the list of the state's top 25 earners, with the El Cortez Hotel in Fairfield sitting in top place.
Thirteen of the 25 hotels are in the Fairfield and Canterbury/Bankstown region.
The 25 hotels made a total of $253 million in poker machine profit during 2016/17, according to NSW Greens MP Justin Field.
The NSW government anticipates raising more than $100 million in tax from the top 25 hotels, Fairfax Media reports.
Mr Field says the hotels' "mega profits" cause immeasurable harm to families and communities.
"Pokies are highly addictive products," he said in a statement on Tuesday.
"(There are) powerful lobby groups pushing in their favour and covering up their true impacts."
The Greens MP is urging the state government to protect the vulnerable and wants the government to consider $1 bet limits along with an acceleration in the overall reduction in the number of poker machines in NSW.
Fairfield City Mayor Frank Carbone in July called on the NSW government to stop investing in poker machines in his community.