Video Poker 24/7 - Do Residents Really Want Video Poker?

Video Poker 247 - Do Residents Really Want Video Poker?

Ohio is still looking to expand into gambling. That statement, simply said sums up what many states are feeling. They are competing with those states around them that already have slot machines or video poker, and feel like they have to add gambling as well if they are going to succeed. However, do we really want to compete?

Ohioans have voted down slot machines and casinos time and again, but government keeps trying to get them passed. At what point do they start listening to their constituents and stop trying to bring in something that they obviously do not want or need? One would think it would have happened by now.

Now there are developers who want to bring in a $600 million casino between Cincinnati and Columbus. It is not on the November ballot yet, so one can only assume that they are reconsidering the issue – but it probably simply means they haven’t filed the necessary paperwork yet.

With West Virginia allowing video poker across the state, and the fact that the bill that does so is about to expire – you will start seeing how people really feel when it comes time to renew it. Many people say that they don’t want the video poker machines in their neighborhoods, but they do bring in money. How are Ohioans ever going to feel that the casinos are a positive, when all they have seen is the negative?

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