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Harrah's Cherokee--Odds vs. Paytables

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I'm pretty new to the world of VP and I decided to stop into Harrah's Cherokee to check it out. After visiting and seeing the mostly horrendous paytables (unless you're playing $5+), I thought I'd check the gaming compact to see what the requirements are for the payback percentages. As I imagined, the minimum is pretty low...83%. The maximum is 100%.

While reading, I noticed one little tidbit in section 5 (A2) that states:
"The Tribe shall publish the odds and prize structure of each Class III game, which publication shall be prominently displayed on every game."

I'm not really sure what odds they would "publish" on a VP machine, but to me, odds aren't the same as paytables. They're completely different. Am I wrong?

I wonder how many players would actually notice or figure out what it meant if they really published the odds on every machine.

Is it possible that trying to push this with the state AG might entice them to make the paytables friendlier?

In case your interested in some light reading, here are the documents:
Original: http://tinyurl.com/y9rpw29
1st amendment: http://tinyurl.com/ydll9w8
2nd amendment: http://tinyurl.com/y9ta4xk

#2

"Is it possible that trying to push this with the state AG might entice them to make the paytables friendlier?"

Ummmm....we are talking North Carolina, a state that happily sucks up gambling revenue while at the same time trying to blame it for corrupt elected officals and organized crime. If you are from here, you know what I mean. If they could completly eliminate gambling from the entire state and put up barriers to stop any of us from doing it elsewhere they would. So, no, I don't think that would do any good.

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