Slot Machine Request Withdrawn 

Maine’s only legal casino has been trying to get a new kind of slot machine approved, and has not been doing well at getting it approved. The new slot machine had come under a lot of fire as their opponents said that it was not a slot machine at all, and that it was trying to introduce a new kind of gambling into the state. It looks as though their opponents may have won this round. 

Hollywood Slots n Bangor, Maine had requested to bring in a new “hosted” slot machine, which looks a lot like a table card game. They had asked Maine’s Gambling Control Board for approval of the new slot machine, but the board said that they thought it needed to go to the state as a request for expanding gambling. The casino said that they didn’t need to do that as it was a slot machine, not a table game, but the board seemed to disagree. 

Opponents said that the casino was trying to bring in table games and that only slot machines were approved at their location. The new games looked like slot machines in that they were electronic, but otherwise they did seem a lot like table games. Players would sit around a table and a casino employee would put in vouchers for them. 

The Gambling Board had left it that they needed more information as to what the games were, and they said that they wanted to look into it more at their December meeting before making a decision. However, the casino has decided to withdraw their request without waiting to see what the board ultimately had to say.

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