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Can’t wait for casino gambling in Columbus? Then perhaps you need to take a trip down to Grove City.
According to this Dispatch article yesterday, the Beulah Park horse-racing track added 30 “Sweepstakes” video machines last week. Players purchase a pre-paid card to swipe at the electronic terminals to play a variety of different games, some of which are identical to slot machines. Payouts are credited back to the card which can be cashed out after playing.
More information about Beulah Park can be found at BeulahPark.com.
Is it still fun if no quarters, tokens, or whatever don’t come out of the machine? It seems like skee-ball without the worthless tickets. No thanks.
The only time I played shot machines, it was in Niagara Falls, and it was the nickel slots. I hit the jackpot and what seemed like thousands of Canadian nickels poured out (which were like 3 cents at the time). I ended up with like $6 US.
this seems like the most pointless waste of time and money that’s not even fun/exciting. Why is such a big deal being made of these machines?
somebuckeye Says: Why is such a big deal being made of these machines?
I think it’s being made a big deal out of because of the potentially illegality. I find that angle to be fairly interesting, although I personally have no desire to go to Grove City to play these video slots.
I don’t like playing slot machines unless I can put real coins in. I think a lot of the fun comes from that and pulling the lever. The part where you walk away with no money isn’t much fun either :)
I always like playing a roll of coins through a slot machine and then calculating and tracking the results. Being a dork has it’s moments :)
I don’t see the slot machines working with a casino in town, which will most likely have slot machines. Bad idea. It’s a little bit of overkill.
Beulah Park installs gaming machines but denies they are slots
By Michael Sangiacomo
November 13, 2009
Beulah Park, a horse racing facility south of Columbus, has installed 30 gaming machines they call sweepstakes machines but others say are slot machines.
General Manager Michael Weiss insists are not slot machines and are perfectly legal.
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Slot-like machines spreading
Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:58 AM
By James Nash
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Huddled over a terminal that beeps, flashes and pays cash like a slot machine, Ron Justus was under no illusions about what he was doing yesterday: He was gambling. Except, technically, he wasn’t.
Justus, a West Side resident, was among the dozens of people who crowded Spinners Cafe on the West Side to play games such as Black Bart’s Bounty, BlackJack 21 and Patty’s Pot O’ Gold for prizes topping out at $10,000.
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Isn’t the law that if they’re not mechanical, like video slots, they’re not slots?
Slot-like machines in a legal muddle
Friday, November 20, 2009
By James Nash
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Attorney General Richard Cordray’s office insists that it cannot decide whether slot-like Sweepstakes machines are legal in Ohio because courts haven’t ruled on the devices.
But at least two courts already have decided. There’s just one problem: They came to opposite conclusions.
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Tracks: We want our VLTs
Posted by James Nash on November 30, 2009
Only two of the seven Ohio horsetracks were able to come up with license fees for slot machines in September — and that was before voters approved full-blown casinos that would compete with the tracks.
But that doesn’t mean the idea of slot machines — officially known as video lottery terminals or VLTs — at horsetracks is dead. It’s gotten more discussion over the past few days as Ohio Senate Republicans look for ways to fill a yawning hole in the state budget.
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Businesses accused of gambling
Saturday, December 12, 2009
BY JAMES NASH
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Authorities pounced on two Franklin County businesses yesterday that have dozens of Sweepstakes machines, which resemble slot machines but whose outcome is determined in advance.
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Beulah Park To Remove Sweepstakes Games
By DENISE YOST | Managing Editor, nbc4i.com
Published: January 13, 2010
Beulah Park agreed to remove the games and refrain from using them unless Ohio legalizes gambling or a court rules the sweepstakes games are legal under Ohio law.
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