Not exact matches
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.
Cuomo, in perhaps another attempt to win a deal with the Senecas, says in his bill that if the disagreement continues, then the state would site two additional
Video Lottery Terminals, which are essentially slot
machines, in Western New York.
Muscarella also defends his support for
video lottery terminals at Belmont Park, a strategy that netted Nassau millions when the
machines went to Aqueduct Racetrack instead.
Right now,
video lottery terminals (essentially, electronic slot
machines), are legal in New York State, but table games with human dealers, like poker and blackjack, are not.
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.
Gural recently said he wants to cut the number of
video lottery terminal or VLT
machines at Vernon Downs from 750 to 550 to free up more space while boosting the facility's catering business.
The license will allow Tioga Downs to complete its transformation into a full - scale casino, replacing the current
Video Lottery Terminals with slot
machines and allowing the facility to add Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, a Poker Room and other casino card games that would be permitted by the gaming commission.
The casino has only 265
video lottery terminals, but 34
machines will be added in March, and a total of 1,000 will be at the site by summer, casino officials said.
If the ballot item is rejected, then the bill allows the state to set up more
video lottery terminals instead, which are slot like
machines already legal in New York.
With the state in a budget crunch and losing $ 1 million in education money for every day the
video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Race Track are not up and running, a spokesman for Gov. David Paterson said there is no deadline for selecting a firm to run the
machines at the Ozone Park track.
Genting, based in Malaysia, already operates gambling at the race track in the form of
video lottery terminals, slot like
machines that are an extension of the state's
lottery contests.