A federal agency might allow the Seminoles Tribe of Florida to have Las Vegas-style machines in their casinos, even if the state doesn’t allow it. The Department of Interior has proposed 28 procedure pages indicating how to administrate the slot machines. The agency said that it could have a list of regulations towards the end of November if the tribe doesn’t reach an agreement with the state.

The Seminoles asked the Department of Interior, in charge of the supervision of Indian affaires, to intervene after the tribe and the governor didn’t reach and agreement.

The Resorts Atlantic City and the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort is hosting a winner-takes-all slots tournament with a $1 million jackpot. The qualifying rounds began this week and will continue until November 25th, the day of the grand finale at the Hilton.

As explained by Phil Juliano, Regional Senior Vice President of Marketing for Resorts and the Hilton, the winner will have to choose between a 25-year annuity worth a million dollars or an immediate cash payment of $500,000.

The casino obtained its license in exchange of $3 million in licensing fees and 50% of its revenue from slots in taxes.

The casino obtained its license on October 13th and awaits the arrival of 516 slot machines within the next days. The providers of the slot machines are WMS Gaming, International Game Tech and Bally’s.

The facilities can hold up to 1,500 slot machines.

Greater Cincinnati corporate executives have agreed to support the legalization of slot machines in Ohio in exchange for $100 million. The money will go to an economic development fund.

The corporate leaders, united in the Cincinnati Business Committee, reached an agreement with casino owners who will pay the $100 million form their own profits as of mid-2008. This development fund is separate from the $89 million a year destined to education and other projects that amendment supporters have predicted.

Yonkers Raceway resumed business after completing the construction of new facilities where 1,870 slot machines are now available. Yonkers renovation aims to revive harness racing in New York by attracting punters with the slots.

The Yonkers Raceway is the first slots operation in the metropolitan area. According to plans, there will eventually be 7,500 slot machines, which will make the racetrack the largest racetrack-based slots venture in the United States.

Juan Cúneo Solari, head of the Chile Racetrack, considered that in order to compete with the huge quantity of casinos Chile is going to open in the next months, the racetrack should also offer slot machines to its customers, “As it happens in the Palermo Racetrack in Argentina”. “In other countries there are racetracks that receive help from the State to function, and there are racetracks that are allowed to have slot machines like Palermo, which is an Institution that every year increases the prizes of the races between a thirty and forty per cent. We don’t want help, just equal treatment to be able to compete with the other companies”.

The government of Guatemala, with the help of the national civil police, has counted the number of slot machines that were seized in the capital city of the country.

The authorities of the departmental government based the slot machines decommission on article 474 of the penal code, which prohibits chance games. Besides, they pointed out that this kind of games tend to create addiction in kids and young children, which has an impact that is very negative for their studies.

The judicial actions prevent Sunat from collecting taxes in slot machine rooms and keep on prejudicing the normal reception of the tributes, Nahil Hirsh, the Boss of the entity, revealed to the Commerce Commission of the Congress.

According to this person, during the year 2005 the entity stopped collecting 140 million, so it could only get 45 million from that activity. That way, tribute evasion in casinos reached 76%.

The Municipality of San Jose collected 200 illegal slot machines in several businesses. Besides, they had to close eight rooms that were equipped only with these machines. In each one of them there were between 20 and 30 slots.

The law that regulates gambling reads: “All games in which money loss or gain depends on luck and not the skills or ability of the player, are forbidden”. Chance must not participate in the game in order for it to be legal.

The National Society of Chance Games proposed to make an “Exclusion List for gambling addicts” to stop the entrance of those people to casinos and chance game rooms.

That was what the president of the institution, Freddy Gamarra, said when he explained that the list will be elaborated with information given by the families of the addicts.