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NM Regulations

#1

You guys got me curious. Even though we have no "local" casinos, we do
travel several times per year to a New Mexico tribal casino a few hours
away. There are also slots and vp (with horrible paytables) at the nearby
racetrack.
We've always played with the Apaches because up until a few months ago, they
had $1 FPDW and FPDB.
I knew I had been told that they had to live up to Nevada law, I wanted to
check for myself.

It seems you are better off gambling at a tribal casino in NM than at any
casino outside of the reservations.
The Tribal Gaming Agency requires "...any and all Class III Gaming
equipment, devices or supplies...standards shall be at least as strict as
the comparable standards...within the State of Nevada....shall meet or
exceed..."

The State, on the other hand requires machines pay out "no less than 80%,
but no more than 96%"!!!!

This means that if you are gambling on the res, you are alot better off than
gambling at the racetracks. Something to keep in mind.

#2

--- In vpFREE@y..., "Shannon" <jacshan@n...> wrote:

I knew I had been told that they had to live up to Nevada law, I

wanted to check for myself.

But it still seems as if the Tribal Gaming Agency's role means that
the tribes are policing themselves and that there is no outside
control like an official agency or other independent auditor.

#3

Maspev wrote:

--- In vpFREE@y..., "Shannon" <jacshan@n...> wrote:
> I knew I had been told that they had to live up to Nevada law, I
wanted to check for myself.

But it still seems as if the Tribal Gaming Agency's role means that
the tribes are policing themselves and that there is no outside
control like an official agency or other independent auditor.

And because of the lack of independent auditors they have had problems
with having money embezzled from them not that long ago (while I still
lived there). They'll learn.

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