Why So Many?

With New Hampshire looking to add 13,000 slot machines to their state, many are wondering why they need so many of them. They say that this number of slot machines is overkill for their state and for their residents and by adding them into the state in such a large quantity they are asking for trouble. They say that the state would have only 980 fewer slot machines than North America’s two largest casinos – the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods in Connecticut. What gives?

Well, the state knows that it has to balance their budget, and slot machines are the key to that. The sate budget that passed is contingent on the slot machines living up to their end of the deal. Slot machines are the biggest money maker when it comes to gambling, just ask the casinos. They always have more slot machines than anything else because they are able to separate players from their money in a way that no other gambling game can.

Slot machines are developed so that they are taking your money and not only are they taking your money but they are tricking you into giving them more of it. There is a study that shows that if you give players what are called “near misses” 30% of the time that they are playing, they will continue to come back for more. Programmers and developers of slot machines know that this is the way to tease them back to the game.

Slot machines are programmed to hook you into an addictive behavior and they work. This means millions of dollars for the casino, and in this case, millions of dollars in slot machine revenue for the state of New Hampshire. However, that money has to come from somewhere and although they say that they will be pulling in from other states, the fact of the matter is that a lot of that money will be coming in from residents as well.

 

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