How would you improve gambling in your state?

Quote: SOOPOO

Did someone say that you have to pay to park at the casinos in Atlantic City? Do you need to get a 'ticket' or something from a gaming table for free parking? There isn't one casino there that will just advertise "FREE PARKING HERE" and stand out positively?

It's $5 to park at the casinos in Atlantic City. Guests pay it once and that includes a one time transfer ticket to park at any other casino. You can come and go as often as you like at your host casino. I hear this is mandated by the state of New Jersey and that everyone must pay it with no exceptions. Wink Wink

People with higher level players cards routinely get it comped and it's often waived for new members at some casinos. Don't tell the state.

Quote: SOOPOO

Did someone say that you have to pay to park at the casinos in Atlantic City? Do you need to get a 'ticket' or something from a gaming table for free parking? There isn't one casino there that will just advertise "FREE PARKING HERE" and stand out positively?

At least on the boardwalk, the casinos are within easy walking distance, similar to the ones on Fremont Street. Given that everyone is charging for parking now, if one casino stepped up and offered free parking, then everyone would try to park there. But that wouldn't mean that everyone would gamble there -- they might just walk next door to play after parking for free.

Ohio here. No casinos yet (wont be long) so i go to grand vic in southern Indiana. I will drive right pass hollywood casino because of higher limits but mostly because of the rude and inconsiderate patrons. Cincinnati people i would suspect but im sure not all. Would like to see the poker room come back and bring back 4 card poker. Great buffet at Grand Vic also although I havent been there in a while.

Quote Pacomartin :

The tax revenue is very small for these places. But they certainly are profitable. At least if you are going to a bar or a strip club then it is a deliberate act where you may want to gamble. However, placing machines in routine stores is dangerous to the addict.

We re all of us addicts. If you are lucky your's is not destructive. In 1990 I played in a poker room in Denver. It had daily tournaments at Noon and I was on a 4pm-Mid shift at AT&t. So I played almost daily. The owner's wife would play when needed to fill enough spots. I never remember her winning. Rock of Ages. Never mind a raise, if she called you were beat. Almost always her chips got blinded away and she seemed relieved when she was out. Very nice lady, beautiful daughter who was also a dealer. In 1991 when gambling was legalized, neither the owner or his daughter could get a state license for having misdemeanor gambling conviction,

Daughter and son-in-law and child moved to Vegas. About a year later owner and wife followed. I assumed they missed grandchild for sure, Only later did I find out the reason was because the house was foreclosed on, credit cards were maxed out,etc.
Since she had been hiding all the mail from collection agencies, utility turnoff notices, etc, the owner had no idea his wife had become addicted to VP. Thank your lucky stars if you are addicted to math or this forum rather than gambling, alcohol, etc.

VP replaced slots some years back as the #1 source of gambling addiction for women instead of slots. At least that is what GA said. I wonder with penny machines if slots are back as number 1 Remember " There but for the grace of God goes I"

Quote: benbakdoff

It's $5 to park at the casinos in Atlantic City. Guests pay it once and that includes a one time transfer ticket to park at any other casino. You can come and go as often as you like at your host casino. I hear this is mandated by the state of New Jersey and that everyone must pay it with no exceptions. Wink Wink

People with higher level players cards routinely get it comped and it's often waived for new members at some casinos. Don't tell the state.

I'm a penny slot/table minimum player and I've paid nay dime to park at the Tropicana the three times I've been there. Just show your player's club card. Maybe because I stayed at the hotel, but I've never paid.

Quote: SOOPOO

Buffalo here.
1. Add pai gow tiles
2. Make non-smoking
3. Add sports gambling

gog- i was told that the odds you get on your parlay requirement are so ridiculously poor that no rational gambler would ever make a legal bet in Ontario.
Do you have the details? My info is hearsay.

I did a rough comparison and the payouts are about 10% worse then the average bookmakers out there which is pretty awful, but wait it gets better; apparently the good folks here didn't want to bother programming past the single digit - all single game odds are capped at 9.9. So if you wanted to go for the truly long shots the skys the limit!

Quote: benbakdoff

In Connecticut we could use some healthy competition for the two giants, but that will probably never happen because of the agreement between Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun with the state. Both casinos pay the state 25% of all slot revenue and in return no other slot machines are allowed in the state. If the state were to allow slots anywhere within its boundaries, the agreement would be canceled.

Your state and it's respective Tribe made an agreement...and stuck to it?

NYS has/had a similar agreement, although not quite 25%, that relied on NYS not allowing any other Tribe or corp. to open up any slots within a certain geographical area, which was basically from State Rt 14 to the west. If you were to draw a north/south line from Lake Ontario to the PA border that split the Finger Lakes in half, everything west of that line is covered under this clause in the State - Nation Compact. And of course, NYS then went and opened up their racinos.

So the Senecas have stopped payments to the State, and now Cuomo's back at it (like every other NYS Governor) with trying to impose state tax on Tribal businesses. My question to those who know their states governments....does your State and it's local Tribe actually enter into contracts that last? This news of Conn. not messing with it's tribal casinos nearly floored me. I guess I've just been too jaded from living in NYS, because the idea of these types of agreements lasting, to me, is as far off as the whole suspension list being lifted and the forum improving as a result.

Stay tuned. If this turns into another 1993, you might catch a glimpse of the Face on the News =P.

Quote: AZDuffman

Why not cut the heads off parking meters? You know how it is....small town, not much to do in the evening........

Here is a bigger question--how many casinos anywhere make you pay to park, not including valets if you so choose.

Harrah's in downtown New Orleans. Last time I was there they validated your ticket after an hour of play. Otherwise it costs to park.

Quote: benbakdoff

In Connecticut we could use some healthy competition for the two giants, but that will probably never happen because of the agreement between Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun with the state. Both casinos pay the state 25% of all slot revenue and in return no other slot machines are allowed in the state. If the state were to allow slots anywhere within its boundaries, the agreement would be canceled.

Competition is on the way however. It's only a matter of time before casinos spring up in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. That fact is not lost on Mohegan Sun as they already have a 99 year lease on 152 acres of land in Palmer,Ma. right off the turnpike. So much for sovereignty.

My guess is New Hampshire will be the next New England state to have casinos. They're libertarian that way, and any legislation that takes tourist dollars from Massachusetts people is a political slam dunk. They'll build it right off the first exit on 93 or 95 past the Massachusetts line.

Quote: 7outlineaway

Harrah's in downtown New Orleans. Last time I was there they validated your ticket after an hour of play. Otherwise it costs to park.

Once upon a time the Teller House in Central City had free parking on a lot half a block from the casino. Giant sign said FREE PARKING FOR TELLER HOUSE CASINO. back of sign said 4 hour minimum play or $10 per hour. Gee I wonder why the Teller House casino is no more ??