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?
