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A hard weekend. Hosted throughout. Then homeward connections got fouled up and was five hours late getting in. What with work and hosting, there was very little time or energy to do anything else. Found the time to win a few bucks at video poker, but that was about it for anything gaming-related. I'll take today off, then back to the mines Wednesday....
May 8, 2007, 5:45 am - johnph77

lotto/casino
Well I got 5-$1 Little Green Men scratch-its and broke even then I got 2-$5 Ten Times the Luck scratch-its and they both were duds. So I took $10 and went to Spirit Mountain Casino for $.25 video poker and I played for about 30 minutes and the $10 was gone so I came home and I am waiting for the Powerball draw for my $76 million.-Weshar75...
Jan 14, 2006, 12:40 pm - weshar75

MB $3.6 million cash
Well I got mom's megabucks $1 ticket today for monday's draw. Split two ways that is about $900 thousand in cash for me and mother. A new vehicle either truck or suv I am sure of. Debt free also and I will take a trip out to the Spirit Mountain casino get a suite in the lodge and have me some fun on the Video poker machines....
Jan 2, 2006, 4:36 pm - weshar75

Lotteries, education and practical math
Hi blogsters: I was sitting here messing with the numbers trying to get back into things after several days of not doing it, but one side of my mind was kicking around the issue of lottery funding of education. It's an ongoing set of discussions on the threads, all facets of the matter. A couple of decades ago I had the experience for several years of hiring newly graduated BS and BA rosy cheeks into a professional staff. During...
Dec 27, 2005, 12:53 pm - Rip Snorter

If the State Replaced the lotto or a new game beats the lotto will you start from Zero
Listen what i told you, IS GOING TO HAPPEN, maybe not now, maybe 30 years from now, maybe 70 years from now maybe: 120 years from now but is going to happen they will have to, they are not going to replace the game stuff might change... Let s put this scenario, the state lottery has their games, you are working on your system you got a couple of mini-supercomputers for $5,000 or $20,000 and you are doing a hell of a research on your system and working out on your sys...
Mar 3, 2010, 9:42 pm - pumpi76

27 Charged In Web Gambling Ring Bust..
Taken from Cnn.com : $1 Billion-A-Year Sports Betting Ring Busted, Those Nabbed include MLB Scout : (AP) More than two dozen people, including a professional baseball scout and a high-stakes poker player, were charged Wednesday in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring that rivaled casino sports books. The il...
May 29, 2007, 6:45 pm - pumpi76

Chicago's new crime target - poker?
WGN news reported tonight that Chicago is going to crack down on home poker games. A $200 fine would be levied for violation. The rationale behind this is to prevent private games organized by individuals on the internet. Tell your grandmas and aunties about it so they don't get busted at their dining room tables with a jar of pennies and a deck of cards&nb...
Dec 18, 2004, 12:16 am - Rick G

Ron Paul Is FOR Internet Gambling
Ron Paul is a Republican candidate for President for anyone asking Who's Ron Paul? He is not an establishment politician and he gets very little coverage from the main stream media. Even after a $6.4 million fund raising event on Sunday that broke all previous records, the media and the polls refuse to acknowledge the reality that there are millions of Americans who are sick and tired of the way this country has been run (down the crapper) for t...
Dec 20, 2007, 11:11 am - Rick G

Prohibition II
Prohibition II: Good Grief When government restricts Americans' choices, ostensibly for their own good, someone is going to profit from the paternalism. By George F. Will Newsweek Oct. 23, 2006 issue - Perhaps Prohibition II is being launched because Prohibition I worked so well at getting rid of gin. Or maybe the point is to reassure social conservatives that Republicans remain...
Oct 26, 2006, 7:01 am - LOTTOMIKE

The steamroller
LottoMikes moving blog entry about the threat to online gambling and how removal of the right to do it will touch his life tells a far larger story than his own experience and the threat to his own well-being. Mike correctly points out, This online gambling prohibition goes over the top. The problem is that the historical, psychological and political processes leading to relieving the citizenry of the choices and responsibilities for freedom aren't going to stop b...
Aug 27, 2006, 9:51 am - Rip Snorter