Lawmakers - brains the size of walnuts?

Can someone explain the logic behind the various gambling regulations around the US?

In Washington state, where I live, there are only table games allowed like blackjack, no slot machines or other machine games. Then someone figured out that since pulltab games are allowed, it should be allowable to have a machine which looks like a slot machine but actually does nothing but display the result of the pulltab. So we have casinos with fake slot machines, which you must insert a ticket into and which do nothing but display the predetermined result on the ticket.

Somehow, it seems that this is ok, but a >real< slot machine would cause anarchy and rioting in the streets and all manner of social breakdown. Video poker would likely bring the world to an end. But blackjack is fine.

In North Carolina, which I regularly travel to, table games are outlawed, but you can have all the machine games you want. So a casino I go to there has nothing but machines, an enormous room of them. You can play blackjack, on the machines. Playing on a table with a dealer would apparently lead to the breakdown of the family and the fall of the government or some such thing.

Anyone think they can explain this?

In the Midwest, if you gamble on a boat sitting on water (or in the case of MO, sitting in mud) it is perfectly all right and fine.
However, the mere thought of gambling on dry land, would cause swarms of locusts to come and devour the land, followed by a steady rain of frogs from the sky.

I think crediting politicians with brains the size of walnuts is being very generous. I think it is more like the size of a pea.

Marijuana may or may not be exactly good for you, but it is milder than alcohol, and less damaging than tobacco. It has been on the wrong side of the political tracks of the lawmakers for a long time, so back in the seventies, our government took up the practice of spraying the crops with the herbacide, paraquat.

Smoking a doobie of paraquat tainted herb was deadly, so I guess they were saying, "Pot might not be good for you, so we're gonna put something on it that will kill you if you smoke it!"

I love it when the government looks out for us.

I love the "boats" in Mississippi. They dig a big hole in the ground, fill it full of water and put in a barge and call it a riverboat casino. They bear about as much resemblance to a riverboat as my Buick does.

Gaming here decided that the side bet on bonus LET IT RIDE violated
the no more than $5 bet rule. So structure was changed to $5 $5 $4
and $1. Better for players I agree, see www.thewizardofodds.com, I
am that reader from Colorado. Reduced house edge for trial period,
but now Bonus is gone, and regular Let It Ride leaving soon to be
replaced by STREAK. Now players can bet $20 extra per hand at over
8 % house edge. Gaming sure helped the players there !!!!!!

Those guys are smarter than you're giving them credit for. It's all about money. What looks really stupid to you and I is really a well laid out plan to put more money in their pockets.

Fill my pockets.

Biloxi when the Isle of Capri had a a sewer line vent jam and gas caused the pipe to expand. It was just 2 inches shift, but it meant that the thing floated. It delayed getting their new parking lot done for about 6 months.

Dictionaries in MS must be a bit different.

Real Vegas-style slot machines and house-banked blackjack are perfectly legal - but only in casinos located on Indian reservations.

There is now more money wagered in casinos in CA than in any other state except Nevada.

Non-reservation "cardrooms" have no house-banked games or slots - but high stakes poker is okay.

Craps and roulette aren't allowed anywhere in the state.

Indian casinos may be on reservations and technically "owned" by the tribes, but many of them are "managed" by major casino players such as Harrah's and IGT.

Meanwhile the state and the tribes fight over how much skim, er, I mean tax, the state is entitled to. Link below.

Insanity!

your ass. Tex is so big that they couldn't control the graft.
Go ahead vote for Sanchez, but move to SHV first.

Lawmaker's are offered a multitude of stupid things to do. They can't do them all, so their brains spin a wheel and the pointer randomly lands on stupid alternative or decision x or y. That's why they are consistently stupid, but not consistent within their stupidity. (I think I need to go to bed) :-)

In multi action blackjack, the regulation describing the game states that the dealer takes a second card three times. Gaming has decreed that the dealer must take a second card even if all players have busted (or made blackjack when the dealer's card is not an A or 10). So the dealer wastes time by going through the ritual of taking a meaningless second card three times when the outcome of the bets has already been determined.

Colorado allows only Slot Machines, Blackjack and Poker. Video poker machines are considered to be slot machines, not poker, but "poker" is interpreted to include such carnival games as "3 Card Poker", "Let it Ride", "Bonus 6" and "Caribean Stud". I'm still wating for someone to bring in "Casino War" and call it "One Card Poker". Fortunately, there is some player banked, real poker, but only with $5 limits.

To make matters worse, the $5 limit and limitation of games allowed are in the state constitution (The law bringing in "limited gaming" was an initated constitutional amendment.), so changing any of this lunacy requires a vote of the people. The casinos seem content with the status quo, because it doesn't really interfere with slots, and putting together a petition drive and advertizing to get the measure passed would be expensive, with no guarantee of success, so no serious effort has been made to change anything.

Casino's have initiated a slush fund, Colorado Gambler had an

editorial about benefits of raising limits, but I do no believe

voters would approve raising stakes. And with nickle slots and

other enhancements, EZ pay, etc just a matter of time till all

table games gone. Unless something happens to make casino's drop

at BJ increase. Per gaming daily drop $340. PATHETIC !!!!!

In Colorado you can murder man wife 7 children and 5 years after
serving time can get a Colorado gaming license. But if ever you
were convicted of a gambling misdemeanor, you are barred from
getting a license for life. Harsh punishment for being guilty
of recreation without taxation.