Ah, how sly some people are.
At a recent Woodstock City Council meeting, when the folks from the Triple 7 video-gaming group were making their pitch to the Council, a woman with Triple 7 told the Council that the maximum bet is $2.00.
I took that to mean that you could bet $2.00 at a time. If you realized you were being a sucker and wasting your money, you could stop betting.
The Page 1 article in the Northwest Herald shows the owner of the Hub Lounge in Harvard at the first gaming machine permitted in McHenry County. The article starts with "Tom Orr inserted a $5 bill..."
Wait a minute! Didn't she say the maximum bet is $2.00?
Tom played a $2 bet, then a second; he lost both. Then he put in $10 more. Then it says he "cashed out with $40". Does that mean he walked away with $40 more than he started with? Or that he walked away with $40? After putting how much in the machine?
Check out the photo of the front of the machine in Harvard. "The BIGGER your BET, the more WINS you'll GET."
Should it read, "The bigger your bet, the bigger fool you are"?
So what the woman told the City Council was true. I guess. What she didn't tell them was that players can deposit $5.00 or $10.00 (or more?) of the family's bread and milk money and then waste it away in $2.00 bets.
And no one on the City Council asked.
And Woodstock has already approved these money-suckers for our little town. Err, city.
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
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It's weird how people believe in the lottery fairy. Statistically, with gambling, you're more likely to lose. It wouldn't operate if it wasn't profiting. I don't even play scratch offs.
Today's paper says that the State of Illinois expects $375,000,000 from video-gambling. Since the State nets 25%, that means $1,500,000,000 gets gambled.
Or is that the profits, meaning even more is gambled?
And you don't even get to hear, "Don't move. Put your hands up. Gimme da dough."
I've always heard these referred to as 'Fool's Tax' or 'Fools' Tax' perhaps.
I just purchased for the first time some two instant scratch offs from the Lotto machine I spent $4 and won $12. I walked out of the gas station a lucky happy man. Thinking of playing again in a year or so. Sorry my gambling limit is $4 and I stick to it.
And I'm sure you'll report that $8.00 income; right?
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