The level of contributions made by clubs to community purposes is low as a proportion of poker machine revenue. Michael Coghlan October 19, 2015 How real are claims of poker machine community benefits? Charles Livingstone, Monash University; Dr Louise Francis, Monash University, and Taylah Wynen, Monash University Some clubs provide genuine benefits to their communities. Unfortunately, clubs have developed significant poker machine dependency – an average of about 60% of total revenue.