For some reason we have a different word for this specific type of gambling, which is almost always "poker machines", or fruit machines/slot machines in other countries...
Here, those are called "pokies", and they are ubiquitous, in most of the country (in pubs and "clubs", which are... Hard to explain. Not nightclubs!), but very much especially in NSW...
Yes, gaming, in this context, = gambling.
For some reason we have a different word for this specific type of gambling, which is almost always "poker machines", or fruit machines/slot machines in other countries...
Here, those are called "pokies", and they are ubiquitous, in most of the country (in pubs and "clubs", which are... Hard to explain. Not nightclubs!), but very much especially in NSW...
Gambling used to be called "gaming" even in the USA.
I have an old Intellivision poster somewhere, and the casino games are explicitly called the "gaming" genre.