A pokie, also known by several other names like a slot machine, fruit machine, puggy, and the slots, is a casino gambling device that rewards players purely based on their luck. In Australia and New Zealand, this one-armed bandit is called pokie (an abbreviation for poker machine).  Why poker? Poker was the first game to hit Australian casinos. Early-gamblers knew very little about this device with large mechanical levers. They began calling it “a poker machine,” which later became “pokie.” In 2020, with … [Read more...]