{"id":777034159,"date":"2025-11-05T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777034159"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:26:30","slug":"sydney-hotels-fined-by-lgnsw-for-breaking-gaming-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sydney-hotels-fined-by-lgnsw-for-breaking-gaming-rules","title":{"rendered":"Two Sydney hotels fined by L&GNSW for breaking gaming rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Concourse Hotel at Wynyard and the Olympic Hotel at Paddington have been fined a combined total of AU$154,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Two Sydney hotels have been fined by the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority a combined total of AU$154,000 (US$100,000)<\/strong> for breaches of gaming machine rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first case, the regulator fined the Concourse Hotel at Wynyard<\/strong> AU$110,000 (US$71,547) for repeatedly allowing patrons to play its 29 gaming machines between 8am and 10am from March to November 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the hotel has 24-hour trading, it is required to comply with the 4am-10am gaming machine shutdown period. However, at 8.40am on November 28 2023, Liquor & Gaming NSW<\/a> inspectors attended the venue and observed that all 29 gaming machines were switched on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimitri Argeres<\/strong>, Liquor & Gaming NSW executive director of Regulatory Operations, said: \u201cThe frequent and repeated operation of gaming machines during the six-hour shutdown period over eight months is an extremely serious breach of laws aimed at reducing gambling harm,\u201d Argeres explained and added: \u201cProviding patrons with access to gaming machines during the shutdown period increases the risk of gambling harm by enabling gambling for longer hours of uninterrupted play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caroline Lamb<\/strong>, chair of the regulator, said: \u201cAs this case shows, venues that fail to abide by gaming machine trading hours can expect to be caught and face significant penalties. The licensee is ultimately responsible for what goes on at their venue,\u201d Lamb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate case, the Olympic Hotel at Paddington<\/strong> was fined AU$44,000 (US$28,619) after officers found three gaming machines were not connected to the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS), which monitors all gaming machine operations in New South Wales and calculates taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inspectors also found that an ATM on the premises had the ability to dispense cash from credit card accounts. Under the Gaming Machines Act 2001<\/strong>, hotels or clubs with gaming machines are not allowed to have ATMs with credit access in any part of the premises. The L&GNSW found that since 2021, more than AU$16,000 had been withdrawn from the ATM from credit card accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> ACMA issues warning letters to unlicensed gambling operators<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Concourse Hotel at Wynyard and the Olympic Hotel at Paddington have been fined a combined total of AU$154,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":25559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Two Sydney hotels, the Concourse Hotel at Wynyard and the Olympic Hotel at Paddington, have incurred significant fines totaling AU$154,000 from the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority for critical breaches of gaming machine regulations. The Concourse Hotel was penalized for repeatedly operating gaming machines during a mandatory shutdown period, while the Olympic Hotel faced sanctions for failing to connect machines to the Centralised Monitoring System and permitting credit card cash withdrawals from an on-site ATM, both contravening the Gaming Machines Act 2001. These enforcement actions underscore the regulator's stringent stance on compliance and responsible gambling frameworks within the New South Wales iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Concourse Hotel at Wynyard, Olympic Hotel at Paddington, NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority, Liquor & Gaming NSW, Dimitri Argeres, Caroline Lamb","focusai_location":"Australia, Sydney, Wynyard, Paddington, New South Wales","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact Analysis","query":"Beyond the immediate fines, what long-term operational and reputational impacts could these regulatory breaches have on the involved venues and the broader NSW gaming market's perceived compliance integrity?"},{"label":"Compliance Framework Gaps","query":"What systemic vulnerabilities in current operational compliance frameworks or technology integrations might these specific breaches (CMS disconnection, credit card ATM access) highlight for other licensed operators in New South Wales?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[289,23911,24388],"class_list":["post-777034159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-australia","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-liquor-and-gaming-nsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777034159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777034175,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034159\/revisions\/777034175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777034159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777034159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777034159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}