Sentences with phrase «otb video lottery»

The 5 - 0 vote may help lawyers for the village appeal a state Supreme Court justice's ruling in September that the village should not have approved a permit for the Suffolk OTB video lottery casino at Jake's 58 hotel in Islandia.

Not exact matches

Suffolk OTB officials said they hope to submit plans soon for a proposed Medford video lottery casino following a federal court order directing county and Brookhaven Town officials to review the project.

Brett Houdek, president of the Medford Taxpayers and Civic Association, which had sued to stop a previous video lottery casino in Medford, called Schaffer's outreach an example of «the old - school «OTB will provide jobs for politically connected people.»

Suffolk OTB plans to open the casino at the Islandia Marriott hotel in February with 260 slot - machine - like video lottery terminals, and eventually expand to 1,000 machines.

The penalties range from written warnings for lottery ticket retailers involved in a first violation, to $ 25,000 for un-escorted minors in Video lottery terminal parlors, race tracks or OTB tele - theaters.

Suffolk County OTB's 6 - month - old video lottery betting parlor at Jake's 58 Hotel & Casino in Islandia continued its run as one of the state's most successful this summer after adding 273 terminals in late May.

The Buffalo company hired by Suffolk OTB to build a mini-casino with up to 1,000 video lottery terminals has asked Islandia officials for a permit to build the facility at a 10 - story hotel in the village.

Suffolk OTB has all but dropped plans to build a video lottery mini-casino in Medford because of «obstructive behavior» by Brookhaven Town officials.

Suffolk County OTB executives say Long Island's first video lottery casino is the agency's last - ditch effort to emerge from bankruptcy and save itself — if the Islandia betting parlor can meet projected revenues.

The contract between Resorts World's video lottery terminal racino at the Aqueduct race track in Queens and the financially strapped Nassau County OTB has been signed and they hope to have almost 500 of what will be 1,000 machines up and running in the next six months.

If it were to be allowed in New York, most agree that the state's casinos and racinos, which offer video lottery terminals and OTBs, would want to participate.

Hundreds of gamblers crowded into an Islandia hotel Monday to play electronic slot machine games and sip drinks as Suffolk OTB opened Long Island's first video lottery casino.

Nassau Regional Off - Track Betting Corp. missed a deadline to pay $ 3 million to Nassau County under a revenue - sharing agreement for video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Racetrack, generating concern about whether OTB will be able to make a $ 20 million payment due next year.

«A big zero,» said Donald Groth, president and CEO of the Catskill OTB, who wants to be able to offer video lottery terminals, or VLTs, in his parlors.

Nassau OTB agreed in March to transfer its authority to install 1,000 video lottery terminals to Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens in exchange for annual payments that will total at least $ 43 million over the first three years.

The Islandia Village Board Friday morning voted to approve a Suffolk OTB casino with 1,000 video lottery terminals that had stirred controversy in the small Islip Town community.

Islandia Mayor Allan M. Dorman said during a public hearing last Tuesday that revenue from the casino's 1,000 video lottery terminals and OTB racing simulcasts would help reduce property taxes for village residents.

Suffolk OTB officials said they hope to submit plans soon for a proposed Medford video lottery casino following a federal court order directing county and Brookhaven Town officials to review the project, officials said.

The announcements Tuesday represented the latest twist in OTB's longtime effort to build a casino with up to 1,000 video lottery terminals.

Suffolk OTB has all but dropped plans to build a video lottery mini-casino in Medford because of «obstructive behavior» by Brookhaven Town officials, an OTB attorney said Wednesday.

In doing so, town officials acknowledged that state law exempts video lottery terminals and OTB facilities from local zoning laws.

Suffolk County OTB, which is opening a video lottery casino in the Islandia Marriott, projects it could bring in $ 2 billion a year in gross revenue.

OTB has proposed opening a facility with about 1,000 video lottery machines and 1,400 parking spaces, starting next February.