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Indian Gaming > Illegal Coin Pushers Showing Up At Locations Throughout California

It is unlawful for any licensee to advertise in any news media or other means, outside of the licensee’s premises, the fact that alcoholic liquors may be purchased thereat. The casino manager would add $10 and $20 bills to the coins in the morning to get people to play. As I mentioned, it’s pretty clear that they must be legal in some form since they have Elaut pushers everywhere in the state. Just curious as to if it’s simply because they offer ticket payouts or what. Nowadays, the cash is almost always replaced with tokens or tickets as a reward. The company released a machine called Wheel-a-Win in 1962.

Certain subassemblies and parts used in connection with these machines are also considered gambling devices. In a drawing, the element of “consideration” is missing. For example, if you go to a restaurant for a meal and then, while paying for your dinner at the cash register, you drop your business card in a fish bowl with the hope of winning a free meal when a name is drawn out of the bowl, you have entered a drawing.

At each stop on the ride, the participant is given a playing card that will, after several stops, form a poker hand. The participant who has the best hand at the end of the run wins a donated television. The $20 dollar donation for the ride is “consideration” because the payment is a disadvantage to the participant and a financial advantage to the promoter of the poker run.

He likened the machines to Internet “sweepstakes cafes,” establishments that some law enforcement agencies have declared illegal gambling halls. Both fall into legal gray areas, McCabe said, that the Florida Legislature needs to clear up. “These are issues that are very difficult to deal with on a local level, because the few experts in that field are very expensive,” McCabe said.

If you go to a trade show and, for no additional payment, drop your business card in the bowl at each vendor’s booth with the hopes of winning one of their products, you have entered a drawing. Generally, the purpose of a raffle is to make money. Giving tickets for free to some participants does not make a raffle legal if other tickets are sold that make the overall raffle an illegal lottery. Kudos for Kansas, along with Nebraska, Missouri, Texas, Mississippi, I’m sure I have missed some states that treat illegal gambling for what it is, illegal. This means it’s likely that in pandering to what casinos want, which is less of what they perceive as competition from the arcade redemption sector, they targetted these machines specifically as they are the closest to blurring that line.

If you arguing that coin pushers are illegal, based on them just being a coin pusher, then ST, SB and WoO would have to go too. There is virtually no skill involved in operating these quarter fall machine. The movable slot gives the appearance that one can control the fall of the quarters in meaningful manner.

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