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Rome City leaders target gambling

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7 years ago

November 13, 2017

You can guess there’s illegal gambling going on, Rome City Commissioner (Georgia) Bill Collins said, when there’s a parking lot full of cars but no visible customers in the convenience store.

“They know to go to the back room for the machines,” Collins said. “It’s odd that the state is not paying more attention.”

City commissioners are pressing for more control over video gaming machines, which are licensed by the Georgia Lottery Corp. They asked local lawmakers for help during a meeting last week ahead of the 2018 General Assembly session slated to start in January.

The Legislature considered banning the machines in 2013, but ultimately decided on stricter regulation that includes a direct connection to the state lottery’s centralized accounting system. The information also can be cross-checked with reports to the Georgia Department of Revenue.

Sen. Chuck Hufstetler, R-Rome, said complaints from municipalities are escalating but he hasn’t yet seen much legislative support for a change.

“I don’t think the system works, but I lost on that vote in the Senate,” Hufstetler said. “They knew there’s a lot of illegal activity, but the argument was the DOR would control it. It wasn’t a workable solution, and we’ve seen this around the state.”

The law limits prizes to store merchandise, fuel or lottery tickets — but there’s no dispute that cash is paid out in some places. The illegal payouts draw more players, which makes the legal machines more profitable for both the merchant and the state.

Mayor Jamie Doss noted an increase in crime around stores that keep large sums of money to pay winners under the table. And local governments own neither the power to license the machines nor a share of the revenue.

“Convenience stores pop up all over, and it seems like their primary purpose is putting these machines in,” Commissioner Craig McDaniel said. “We’re hearing some of them get $20,000 to $30,000 a month from the Lottery. The cities aren’t getting any of that.”

The Lottery Corp., established to help fund HOPE Scholarships and Pre-K education, keeps a share of the monthly proceeds from each machine and distributes the balance to the licensees. It also gets annually a $5,000 base license fee from the owner of each business with video gaming machines, plus $125 a machine, along with $125 per machine from the holder of the location license.

As it stands, however, there are no local reporting duties. City Manager Sammy Rich said allowing cities to require permits would help track the activity and enable them to address complaints from residents.

“We feel like we need to have some role in the regulation of our town,” City Clerk Joe Smith added.

But Hufstetler said that argument may be a hard sell, since the state already knows where the gaming machines are.

“It’s not that it’s an illegal machine. It’s being used illegally,” he said.

Rep. Katie Dempsey, R-Rome, said that, for now, the best suggestion to “clean up Rome” is to ask for a state investigation at the stores where cash payoffs are suspected.

“Illegal machines are absolutely the enemy of the DOR. They want to know,” Dempsey said. “The DOR would be glad to swoop in. You have an ally there.”

She and Hufstetler said they favor banning the machines but complaints to state lawmakers haven’t been loud enough to outweigh calls to keep them, as revenue-generators for businesses and schools.

City commissioners said they would continue trying to rally support through the Georgia Municipal Association, whose members are seeing the fallout in their communities as well..

“The families who can least afford to be impacted are the ones who are most affected,” McDaniel said.

For a link to a Georgia Lottery Corp. video on gaming machines: Click here.

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The Best 11 Bingo Slots Online Products

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2 years ago

August 1, 2022

George Miller

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Armenian parliament adopts bill on gambling in the first reading

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7 years ago

January 19, 2018

George Miller

The Armenia National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt the draft law on making amendments in the law on combating terrorism in the first reading at today’s sitting.

The parliament fully adopted the draft law on making amendments and supplements in the law on the “RA Investigative Committee” and the attached package of draft laws in the second reading with a vote of 85 for and 7 against.

The issue of adopting the draft law on making addendum to the Criminal Code initiated by MPs Karen Avagyan and Hrayr Tovmasyan in the second reading was also put up to voting.

The bill passed overwhelmingly the parliament’s second reading. In a speech ahead of the voting, Tsarukyan faction MP Naira Zohrabyan voiced the faction’s intention to support the bill in the second reading since the proposals submitted by the bloc over the measure had been accepted.

The Armenian parliament also overwhelmingly voted to adopt the draft law on making amendments and supplements in the law on energy and the attached bill package in the first reading.

The draft law on making amendments and supplements in the law on “Games of Chance, Online Games of Chance and Casinos” and the attached package passed the parliament’s first reading, receiving a total of 93 votes in favour.

The National Assembly also fully adopted the law on the Constitutional Court and the attached draft package in the second reading with 87 votes for and 7 against.

Source: panorama.am

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Play’n Go launches Mystery Joker 6000

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7 years ago

December 22, 2017

George Miller

Omni-channel slots specialist Play’n Go has reinvigorated the much-loved fruit slot in its latest title Mystery Joker 6000.

The three-wheel, five-payline game delivers the same classical symbols known to slots fans, with the introduction of the Joker symbol which triggers free spins and big wins on finding it.

When players land a Joker on a payline that runs across reels one and two, the third will re-spin while the rest are held, and if a third Joker is found, the innovative mystery wheel feature is triggered, potentially paying out up to 6000 times the current coin value.

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Johan Törnqvist, chief executive officer of Play’n Go, said: “The traditional fruit slot has been a mainstay of the casino space for decades with players loving its simplicity and regular payouts.

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Mystery Joker 6000 marks Play’n Go’s final release of an award-winning year, which has seen it launch 60 new titles across various genres. It’s set to build on this in 2018, with a product roadmap in place that will see even more innovative and enjoyable slot releases.