Carlton has finished top of the pokies losses ladder with punters dropping $19 million at the club's four venues, as total losses at Victorian AFL club-owned venues reached more than $85 million last year.

But losses at football club-owned venues dropped 12.2 per cent from nearly $97 million in 2011-12, a larger decrease than the rest of the state which saw pokies losses drop by 7.1 per cent to nearly $2.5 billion over that period.

Essendon, Collingwood and Hawthorn rounded out the top four of largest pokies losses.

Analysis by The Age of punter losses at pokies venues in the state that were active in the past financial year found that losses at the venues owned by nine Victorian clubs - North Melbourne is the only club without poker machines - totalled $85,102,284.