In March, pokies players in the city's venues spent $1,484,906 on the gaming machines, second only to the city of Glenorchy whose residents put $1,699,436 into their city's machines.

Government data released on Friday showed that Tasmanians have spent $150 million in the state's 97 poker machine venues since coronavirus restrictions eased.

That figure includes money spent on gaming machines in the state's two casinos and aboard the Spirit of Tasmania ferries, though the individual city figures do not.

Following the easing of restrictions, players flocked back to Launceston's venues and spent $1,782,477 in the city's gaming machines in July.

Their spend remained north of $1.5 million per month until November when it dropped to $1,377,285, and it has been hovering steadily between $1.3 million and $1.5 million in the months since.

Third highest in the state was the city of Devonport, where players have also routinely spent more than $1 million per month in the city's poker machines since July.

None of the other municipalities in the North-West have figures close to the amount spent in Devonport, though the city does also have the largest population in the region.

Central Coast had the region's second highest spend in March with $613,257 fed into poker machines, while Burnie residents spent $578,679 in the same month.

Comparisons to 2020 provide little context as the lockdown and venue closures imposed on March 23 affected total spend.

However, in March 2019 players in Devonport spent about $140,000 less than in 2021, Central Coast players about $113,000 less while in Burnie it was relatively close at $556,027.

Gambling reform is again playing a significant roll in the upcoming state election, though most notably because the Labor Party has backed away from its 2018 policy of restricting poker machines to casinos and removing them from pubs.

That remains a policy of the Greens party, which says poker machines "compound and deepen poverty in Tasmania".