The jewel in the hospitality portfolio of Australia’s richest gambling tsar and second-most profitable hotel in NSW by gaming revenue repeatedly flouted gambling laws by allowing patrons to withdraw cash on credit.

NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) ordered the Wentworth Hotel in Homebush West on Wednesday to pay the maximum penalty of $22,000 for permitting cash to be withdrawn on credit and engaging in conduct likely to encourage the abuse of gambling, among three major fines issued this week.

It followed a $110,000 fine issued to the Concourse Hotel in Wynyard, the third-largest penalty issued by the authority since it was established in 2007, and a $44,000 fine to the Olympic Hotel in Paddington.

The Concourse had allowed its patrons to play the pokies during the man

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