The Tote, the state-owned bookmaker soon to be privatised, has seen the amount it won from punters rise by over 5%, mainly thanks to controversial touch-screen roulette machines in the group's 540 betting shops. In a surprise move, the bookmaker omitted to say how much gross profit it made from the [[GBP]] 500 jackpot machines, as it has done in the last two years' annual reports to parliament.