In the latest round of 'caps', 11 of Monash's 16 poker machine venues must remove 165 machines by tomorrow - reducing the total number of machines from 1150 to 985.

The caps applied to all venues in the Mulgrave, Ashwood, Chadstone, Clayton and Oakleigh postcodes.

Last Monday , Victorian Commission of Gambling Regulation figures showed three venues - Matthew Flinders Taverner, Oakleigh Junction Hotel and Vegas at Waverley Gardens - were yet to remove 74 required machines.

Matthew Flinders Taverner, which was ordered to remove 46 of 105 machines, had removed four.

Last week, Ross Blair-Holt, director of the Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group, which runs the hotel, said the remaining 42 machines would be removed by today.

He said the hotel would continue with plans to apply to the VCGR for an increase of machines from 59 to 80, the extra machines to come from other Monash pokie venues.

In September, he told the Journal the regional caps put the hotel at financial risk.

"The Matthew is an iconic destination venue with a range of entertainment options and it's clearly unfair to burden it with losing 43 per cent of its machines when some in the Monash LGA lose zero."

About $45 million was lost to Monash poker machines between July and October this year, which amounts to about $366,000 per day.

The figure is up more than $1 million for the same time in 2006-07 - a record-breaking financial year that yielded more than $128 million.

Last Tuesday, Monash councillor Joy Banerji, who chairs the council's responsible gaming taskforce, said she doubted the removal of 165 machines would "make a great deal of difference" to problem gambling.

"But it's some recognition of the problem in this municipality of the money that's generated by poker machines."