Poker machine profits in NSW will grow by 12 per cent over the next four years to reach $7 billion per year by 2021, according to forecasts contained in Treasury background papers released on Thursday.

These are the first profit forecasts to become available since the state government introduced a suite of reforms to poker machine regulations in March that the government said were designed in part to minimise gambling harm.

Poker machine profits in NSW will grow by 12 per cent over the next four years. Credit:Fairfax Media

Treasury forecasts that hotel profits from pokie machines will grow by 16 per cent to reach $2.58 billion while clubs’ pokies profits will increase by 10 per cent.

The Greens spokesman on gambling harm, Justin Field, said the profit forecasts, “show a total failure of government policy to address gambling harm within our community.