Arkansas Lottery Commission to revisit monitor games

Comment #4

jamella724 — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 05:07:34 GMT

They need to study if having monitor games will boost their revenue. I guess survey will do to make sure that players will like to have this kind of games or not, besides aside for revenue players should be satisfied too. Having a lot of scholars they need more funds to finance those students and this might be a good way to increase they sales.

Comment #3

dallascowboyfan — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:42:11 GMT

That's messed up

Comment #2

Jon D — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:02:05 GMT

No, I think you read that right.

Like in CA, unclaimed prizes go straight to the state funding, not back in the prize pool. Similar things happen in scratch games, lots of prizes thrown away unclaimed. And then they get a bonus when they exceed their funding targets. Funny how that works...

Comment #1

RedStang — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:53:13 GMT

There may be a $2 million prize winner sitting down in the claims center right now, so you just have to hold your breath, he said.

Maybe i'm reading this wrong, but it seems like they are hoping no one wins soon.

Arkansas Lottery Commission to revisit monitor games

Lottery Post — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:30:09 GMT

With proceeds down from last year, the Arkansas Lottery Commission will consider adding monitor games to boost revenue an option that Gov. Mike Beebe and others have spoken against in the past.

Commissioner Dianne Lamberth of Batesville asked the commission Monday to take another look at monitor games, which so far have not been offered in Arkansas. Rep. Mark Perry, D-Jacksonville, co-chairman of the legislative oversight committee on the lottery, had requested earlier that the commission tak... [ More ]