Posts under ‘gambling’

Let’s say that one day, you’re banned from a casino (for hitting a slot machine and breaking its “belly glass”). Years later, somehow, you’ve worked yourself back into that casino (hitting the slots and winning thousands).
How, exactly, should you cash in those chips?  
The issue: Whether a casino (here, Prairie Meadows) had the authority to withhold winnings [...]

“Is a friendly, private poker game ‘illegal gambling’?”
Rick Alm answered that murky question (sorta) in the Lucky Numbers gambling blog last week (courtesy of The Kansas City Star).
Bad doggies.

Yet another “gambling” with machine case.
Here’s the story: Art Dowling owns Magic Money in Barberton, Ohio. His business provides a number of gaming machines for customers to play on its premises.
The Barberton police investigate Magic Money and obtain a search warrant. A search ensues, and officers seize 44 gaming machines, $13, 000+ cash, business records, equipment and property. A second warrant follows, [...]

Although this opinion was issued in July, it was only recently published. (Which is how I found it.)
Here are the CliffsNotes: The Boom Town Saloon has a video poker machine. A Chicago vice officer, while enjoying a beverage at the saloon, noticed a patron using the video machine. He ”watched the patron insert money into the machine and [...]

It’s a video poker case.
Over at SCOTUSblog, they’re betting that that it is taken up by the Supreme Court. I won’t (meaning, I can’t) handicap the odds. The case concerns Jimmy Martin and his company, Lucky Strike, which have sought to enjoin enforcement of two South Carolina statutes criminalizing certain “device[s] pertaining to games of [...]

This decision comes down from the Montana Supreme Court.

It concerns one bar’s effort to transfer its liquor license to a soon-to-be casino in Great Falls. Before issuing the license, Montana’s Department of Revenue (”DOR”) published a notice of the license application in the newspaper. Because a number of written protests were received by the DOR, [...]

… is sport in Louisiana.
But “[t]oday, the Louisiana House of Representatives approved a bill to ban any gambling at cockfights, dealing a blow to cockfighting enthusiasts who attend the fights both for the bloodletting and the wagering,” as reported here by Media Newswire. Don’t start counting eggs just yet, though. Some House members believe that [...]

Gambling: “State would be winner if it legalizes the game,” opines Jerome Solomon of the Houston Chronicle here. He writes, “Yes, I play poker. And like most poker players in Texas, I’m not sick, sleazy or despicable, and I am certainly no lawbreaker. Well, at times I might be. (A lawbreaker, that is).” Me, [...]

“Gambling, drugs, sex and, of course, booze – by 1916, 23 of the 48 states, more than half, had passed local prohibitions on alcoholic beverages. It was thus not a big surprise when Prohibition was written into federal law. In 2006, bars can obviously serve booze (although in states like California, they are not allowed [...]

“Attorney General Jon Bruning says the conflict over an initiative to legalize up to three casinos in Nebraska is ‘ripe for determination’ before the November election,” as reported here by the Hemscott.com. Anyone care to wager on whether the Nebraska Supreme Court takes the AG’s position?
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