States ‘must rethink pokies addiction’
“But they do very little, in fact almost nothing, to stop people getting into that problem in the first place, and we think it’s high time we started taking that more preventative approach.”
State governments must renegotiate funding arrangements with the commonwealth or boost other funding streams to cut their reliance on tax revenues from poker machines, says the author of a new gambling report. via Stawell Times News
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Gambling casinos info:
- The brand new resort, Wynn Las Vegas recently opened on the Las Vegas Strip. At a cost of approximately $2.7 billion, the Wynn Las Vegas features 2,700 guestrooms and suites, casino (table games, over 1900 slots/video poker machines, poker room with race and sports book), several restaurants, a night club, golf, a shopping esplanade and a show called Le Reve.
- Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.
- Indian tribes have used their position as sovereign entities to develop a number of gaming establishments. Indian casinos operate in 22 states. This number is expected to grow.
- Casino gambling, including Indian gaming, is legal in 27 states and most of the casinos have been built in the last 5 years according to "America's Gambling Fever", U. S. News and World Report, 15 Jan 1996
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