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464 gaming machines seized in S.C.News Story
Businesses say despite payouts, games aren't illegal gambling South Carolina authorities seized 464 gaming machines and computers Thursday from 13 York County businesses accused of hosting illegal gambling just over the N.C. state line. Drawing attention were an increasing number of Internet cafes where customers played video slots with prepaid cards. Business owners defended them as legal sweepstakes. Authorities, however, said the cafes, which pay out money to winners, are thinly veile
Mar 3, 2006, 3:43 pm - Todd - Lottery News

WV Lottery not backing online gaming law this sessionNews Story
West Virginia Lottery officials will back two bills intended to increase revenue, but do not plan to pursue legalization of online gaming this session, Lottery Director John Myers told the House Finance Committee Friday. We certainly see the opportunity in iGaming, he said. We fully intend to come back with that at some point. Online gaming, or iGaming, can run the gamut from being able to able to buy tickets for Lottery drawings or scratch-off games online, to sports betting apps, to on
Jan 16, 2019, 1:02 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Why not let, Online Gaming Gambling for teenagers...Reply
plus the lottery is TOO hard for teens...why not use, Online Gaming Gambling for teenagers the elderly....the lottery for everyone else in between.... Online Gaming, you can mix existing video games and also mix them with old one make the more exciting....Example, mix video game 22nd with video game 66,000th with video game: 8,809th.....make it more fun... you do know you can mix strawberry juice with peaches juice you dont have to sell them separedly.... the elderly globally must be th
Feb 3, 2011, 3:25 pm - pumpi76 - Gaming Forum

GTech to buy Leeward Islands LotteryNews Story
World's largest lottery systems operator plans to acquire Caribbean-based Leeward for $40 millionGTech Holdings Corp., the world's largest lottery systems operator, on Monday said it would acquire a lottery operator based in the Caribbean for $40 million in cash.It said the acquisition of privately held Leeward Islands Lottery Holding Co., based in Antigua and St. Croix, gives it an entry to an important market. We believe the acquisition of LILHCo gives GTECH a strategic foothold in the Caribbe
Apr 5, 2004, 11:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

New York Lottery first in U.S. to crack the $10 billion mark in salesNews Story
The New York Lottery had a pretty good year. The state's traditional lottery and video lottery gaming operations became the first in the nation to top the $10 billion mark in combined sales and net win, which is the earnings after winners are paid. The New York Lottery, the largest and most profitable in the country, recorded $8.2 billion in sales for the state fiscal year that ended March 31, 2019, the New York Gaming Commission announced in a news release this week. That includes sales f
May 15, 2019, 7:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

Casino deal leads GTECH to rethink R.I. investmentsNews Story
The company warns that it may not go ahead with its plans because bills before the General Assembly fail to provide it with a portion of the slot machines in a new gaming facility.Citing the casino legislation in front of the General Assembly, GTECH Holdings Corp. is reviewing its planned investments in Rhode Island -- including its proposed $88.5-million corporate headquarters in downtown Providence.GTECH says the two casino bills before the General Assembly do not guarantee that it can operate
Jun 24, 2004, 8:14 am - Todd - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery installs new gaming systemNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop The Kansas Lottery's new, advanced central gaming system is now live at more than 1,700 Kansas Lottery retailers across the state. This follows a successful conversion by the Lottery's new technology partner Scientific Games as part of an overall plan to responsibly increase returns to the State of Kansas. The Lottery's data transfer and official switch-over from the old systems technology took place July 29. Careful planning started more than
Aug 1, 2018, 10:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Take5 NYReply
Wow! I didn't see that! I have the latest issue of Stat's but for whatever reason I didn't check Best Sets..... Yup, I read the article. I'm not surprised the NYL doesn't have the tapes for all of the drawings. They should have them! They probably thought nobody would ever submit a FOIL for them as far back in time as Roy did, so they threw them out. That's my guess anyway. For those that don't know, FOIL stands for Freedom Of Information Law Lotto Stat's submitted a FOIL request to the NY
Jun 15, 2015, 3:20 am - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

2014 WinsReply
I do not keep track of how much I spend but I know one thing for certain and that is I am spending less in 2014 on lotto. I do not think that mom and I have been to the casino this year once but we have been to Yan's to play video lottery machines. So far we have won about $300 for myself and I think mom has won about $200 off machines at Yan's this year. We bought about $200 worth of scratch-its mostly $1 and $2 tickets and some $5 tickets as well but only won back about $120 of that $200 spent
Oct 13, 2014, 12:09 am - weshar75 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lawsuit acuses Texas of misusing lottery fundsNews Story
A lawsuit filed by a watchdog group seeks to block the State of Texas from making more payments to a Las Vegas law firm hired a year ago to draft legislation to legalize video slot machines.The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by Russ Verney of the national watchdog group Judicial Watch, contends that the state exceeded its authority when it agreed to spend lottery proceeds to pay the firm.The Texas attorney general's office hired the law firm Lionel, Sawyers and Collins to develop legislation that would
Dec 17, 2004, 3:13 pm - Todd - Lottery News