Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Issue: 11   Editor: iAir


Casino: a fraction of fame, Part II iAir
As I hope you have read the original of this article in Issue#10 this article is a follow-up in the mind of casino's. If you have yet to read the Elite Guard Interview then do so, especially keeping in mind Sabin's responce to my question regarding this casino issue that I have been addressing.

Once you have done that you will now be fully aware of the angle I have written this follow-up from.

As I had mentioned, casino's are going nowhere. Low maxes, boring gambling and lack of interest to want to buy them. Prices were cheap, then rose and now are slowly decreasing once more. Makes you wonder if this is for the best, right? I beg to differ.

Gambling is one of the most used functions in Bootleggers - it shouldn't be, but it is. This being a mafia game you would expect to see the crews being in the most limelight, yet we are not. So this leaves us with the typical notion that the casino's should be our newest form of entertainment. Not to simply gamble but to kill for.

With the threat for killing casino's at a very poor notice, casino maxes are incredibly poor. How can we solve this? Putting that threat higher. Although that seems to be quite an unrealistic approach as we only recently witness Jordan attack casino owners, for this sole reason, yet it wasn't good enough.

Broken had gathered a short bit of information from 3 casino's in 3 different states. Below are his findings:

Nevada Racetrack
Wednesday 14th 6PM - $100 - Owned by bigboy
Thursday 15th 6:50PM - $1000 - Owned by Abigail
Friday 16th 4:55PM - $1000 - Owned by Abigail

New York Blackjack
Wednesday 14th 6PM - $500 - Owned by mastervampire
Thursday 15th 6:20PM - $1000 - Owned by DutchDelight
Friday 16th 4:55PM - $5000 - Owned by DutchDelight

Illinois Roulette
Wednesday 14th 6PM - $10 - Owned by brainvirus
THursday 15th 6:55PM - $10 - Owned by brainvirus
Friday 16th 4:50PM - $10 - Owned by brainvirus

As you can no doubtedly see, maxes are gong nowhere any time fast. So as I mentioned in Part I of this article last week, maybe a new fix-rule should be implemented on casino's to stop this poor use of them?

It then brought to mind, from the public as well, that the rule on Keno's should be fixed on them. [If you are unaware of this rule please read last week's article]

Now although this idea seemed full-proof Sabin mentioned that "the primary reason for the low max syndrome is the much-slower economy than that to which many players are accustomed."

Although he was still in favour of a possible "change in the way casino maxes are governed."

So this leaves us to now wonder: will we see a change in maxes or will more actions need to be taken? A possible neglect of casino's to stop their profits (thus giving no need to hold a casino) could be an even better option. But the chances of that happening are minimal as too many people are "addicted".

Is it down to the players to sort this problem out or the Administration? You decide.
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All quotes used above from Sabin were taken from the Elite Guard Interview.