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The Right Questions

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carlos wrote:

Dan - Regarding your article "The Right Questions", has anyone said
they have posed the questions to the MO Gaming Commission? If not, I
will do so and post their response(s) for all to see.

I got an email from one reader who submitted the questions to the gaming commission in Indiana. Twice. No response. So yesterday he sent a registered letter to the head of the commission. I'll report here if he gets a response.

About ten years ago I exchanged several letters with New Jersey authorities. They kept shuffling me around with responses such as, "You should ask ____ about this." The last letter I think was from the NJ Attorney General who said something to the effect that "While NJ does not have such explicit regulations as Nevada, the games are similarly controlled." It didn't give me much confidence.

When New Jersey legalized gambling in Atlantic City, Nevada already had 30 years experience in regulating it, but they had to write their own laws from scratch. I assume that every other state has done about the same. I call it the N-I-H Syndrome (Not Invented Here). Louisiana, however, does have a regulation stating explicitly that every unseen card in a video poker game must have the same probability of appearing at any time. I hope it's enforced.

Carlos, please go ahead and write to the MO Gaming Commission with my questions. If you get a response, please let us all know.

Dan

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Dan Paymar
Author of best selling book, "Video Poker - Optimum Play"
Editor/Publisher of VP newsletter "Video Poker Times"
Developer of VP analysis/trainer software "Optimum Video Poker"
Visit my web site at www.OptimumPlay.com

"Chance favors the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur

#2

carlos wrote:
>Dan - Regarding your article "The Right Questions", has anyone said
>they have posed the questions to the MO Gaming Commission? If not, I
>will do so and post their response(s) for all to see.

I got an email from one reader who submitted the questions to the
gaming commission in Indiana. Twice. No response. So yesterday he
sent a registered letter to the head of the commission. I'll report
here if he gets a response.

I've attempted to get answers from the Indiana commission on several
occasions without any success. A secretary answers the phone and will
even direct the caller to commission member voicemails, but nobody has
ever responded to any of my telephone or email inquiries. My questions
pertained to what process Indiana gaming law prescribes to ensure the
integrity of gaming devices. It appears that the commission is either
unwilling or unable to answer these questions. Don't count on onsite
commission agents for any answers as they know absolutely nothing
about pre-deployment. I found this out the hard way when I recently
lodged an unofficial complaint about a machine which I believe to be
gaffed by the manufacturer. At this point I don't know what to make of
the Indiana commission. I won't go as far as asserting that they are
completely beholden to casino interests, but the impression created so
far certainly doesn't build the confidence of casino patrons.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Dan Paymar <Dan@O...> wrote:

About ten years ago I exchanged several letters with New Jersey
authorities. They kept shuffling me around with responses such as,
"You should ask ____ about this." The last letter I think was from
the NJ Attorney General who said something to the effect that "While
NJ does not have such explicit regulations as Nevada, the games are
similarly controlled." It didn't give me much confidence.

When New Jersey legalized gambling in Atlantic City, Nevada already
had 30 years experience in regulating it, but they had to write
their own laws from scratch. I assume that every other state has done
about the same. I call it the N-I-H Syndrome (Not Invented Here).
Louisiana, however, does have a regulation stating explicitly that
every unseen card in a video poker game must have the same
probability of appearing at any time. I hope it's enforced.

Carlos, please go ahead and write to the MO Gaming Commission with my
questions. If you get a response, please let us all know.

Dan

--
Dan Paymar
Author of best selling book, "Video Poker - Optimum Play"
Editor/Publisher of VP newsletter "Video Poker Times"
Developer of VP analysis/trainer software "Optimum Video Poker"
Visit my web site at www.OptimumPlay.com

"Chance favors the prepared mind." -- Louis Pasteur