You are engaged in fraud. Your shuttering will not come a minute too soon. How am I so sure your are predatory crooks? A good clue comes from the fact that no legislation proposed to officially legalize video gambling offers any player protections. Honest games and honest operators would:
- Post the odds of winning
- If odds change as the game is played, post the odds in real time.
- Make games that represent real-world games, such as dice, cards or dominoes have the same odds as the real world games.
How dare another form of gambling compete with the NC State Lottery.
ReplyDeleteThank you for missing the point.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it "video gaming" is a rip-off. But why should it be banned? Can't we allow our citizens to display publicly the failure of public education?
ReplyDeleteThe odds at PowerBall are 1 in 195,249,054 and the state publicly endorses that, while the odds of beeing hit by lightning are about 1 in 500,00 or in other words your 390 times more likely to get hit by lightning.
But where do you come up with the notion that the odds should be be posted in real time? That doesn't happen at any Casino that I know of, but of course I suppose that you could argue that Casino's aren't legitimate.
The only place that I know that you can gamble and have the odds posted in real time are pari-mutual race tracks. And those odds are not necessarily the true odds of winning but a function on the relative amounts of money bet on each horse.
Let's be perfectly honest. The only reason the legislature is against video gaming is that they haven't figured out how to tap the revenue stream. If they were against ripoff games of chance then they would never have adopted the lottery.
At least the jokers feeding video poker machines can claim a a bit of entertainment, something a PowerBall ticket doesn't do.
BTW sorry for all the typos
ReplyDeleteJon, Thanks for commenting.
ReplyDeleteThe bills proposed to legalize video gambling did indeed include licensing and tax provisions, so I don't think that is the reason the legislature is against it.
The state lottery, its appropriateness aside, does inform players of what they are getting (those long odds you note) and the odds of winning scratch-off games are updated on the web as new winning tickets are redeemed.
Maybe my suggestions are for something more informative to players than casinos offer, but they are fair and inline with the information the state provides to its gamers.
The problem is that the people who own these places were CRIMINALS a couple of years ago when this stuff was illegal! it didn't pop up overnight. There's no "player protection" and this guy David, the one that owns part of over 100 "business centers" are getting the people who play in them (who, BTW, couldn't afford to drive to Raleigh so he bused them in) to fight for him, when all he had to do was give up some of his money in campaign contributions! And many people are only getting paid just-above minimum wage with no security (That's why alot of these places get robbed) and no benefits!
ReplyDeleteThese people are not only GREEDY but CHEAP as well!
Misty