This is a message board where people harmed by gambling machines can share their stories, report their successes and to share their learning about how they (or their loved ones) became addicted to gambling machines and what they can do to quit (or help their loved ones quit).

Gambling machines are variously known as, poker machines, pokies, slot machines, video poker machines, video lottery machines, VLT's, fruit machines and gaming machines.

The single greatest risk factor for problem gambling is playing a gambling machine. The second greatest risk factor is having convenient access to one.

One in four regular users of gambling machines develop an addiction to the machines and suffer gambling related harm.

Within five years of the legalisation and introduction of gambling machines, there is a ten-fold increase in the number of problem gamblers.