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In response to
"If someone told me #2 was not NJ, I would have guessed Missouri. Then maybe MS or AL? Or even FL?"
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ty97
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In the mid-atlantic, if you want to ahve any type of gambling (horses mostly), you need other forms
Posted by
Will Hunting (aka Joemetz)
Jul 7 '14, 06:39
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it's been an arms race for 15 years.
West Virginia's tracks were going under; so they got slot machines...Delaware did the same, Pennsylvania followed and pretty much the state with the Biggest Race finally got off its ass about 5 years ago and did the slots.
West Virginia already had some locations with table games; so they then put in table games close to the MD line....Delaware and Pennsylvania followed.
Maryland passed (after a major outside interest fight - aka WV gaming interests) table games in 2012 and those establisments are just now coming on line.
The nearby WV poker room went from 50 tables with 100 person wait lists to now, 20 tables with 5 person waits. Maryland Live is booming now. There's really nowhere else for anyone in the region to advance in terms of escalation....
maybe online poker at some point (soon maybe), but now it's just separating the wheat from the chaff.
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