Sentences with phrase «slot machine»

Press a button and a slot machine appears, allowing teens to gamble — and win.

Popular slot machine games, as found in many high street betting shops, have subtle ways of telling players not just whether they have won or lost, but also whether they «almost won».

However, many people tend to match their response proportions to the outcome probabilities — they bet on the better slot machine in 67 percent of the cases, and on the worse one in 33 percent of the cases.)

The best thing one can do in this task is to always bet on the better slot machine, which yields an expected accuracy of 67 percent.

The probability of winning was higher on one slot machine (67 percent winning chance) than on the other (33 percent winning chance), and the order of outcomes was completely random.

«It is like a Vegas slot machine with just two states, and Sputnik Planitia ended up in the latter position, centered at 175 degrees longitude,» said Hamilton.

Keating, an astrophysicist who formulated the original BICEP experiment, tells the story from his perspective, likening research in this field to «a Stockholm slot machine paying out in Nobel Prizes.»

In turn, the tribe must share its slot machine revenues, he said.

Turns out Ulrich won more than $ 10,000 from a slot machine during a visit last year to the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct, not far from his district.

Under the terms of the original compact, the Senecas turn over 25 percent of slot machine revenues at its casinos; the state keeps most of it and provides an allotment from two different pots — estimated at some $ 35 million annually — to the municipalities.

From 2008 through 2014, the agreement between the state and the Seneca Nation called for the nation to pay 25 percent of its slot machine revenue to the state, which then distributed a portion to local municipalities.

Both agreements neglected to specifically require the Senecas to continue paying the state a portion of the slot machine proceeds from 2017 through 2023, when the compact expires, according to the Senecas and a state lawmaker.

If the referendum fails, the law allows for an additional slot machine parlor on Long Island.

Back - tax payments from the Nation's casinos and a share of their annual slot machine revenue has helped Oneida County collect more than $ 60 million in three years.

Anti-gambling activists took a sledgehammer to a slot machine in front of the New York State Capitol to demonstrate their opposition to a ballot amendment to legalize gambling casinos in New York state.

At about the same time that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo began his «State of the State» speech on Wednesday, a middle - aged woman walked away from a slot machine called Great Wall in the new gambling hall adjoining Aqueduct racetrack.

The state was getting 25 percent of annual slot machine revenues at the tribe's three casinos, which it then shared — at different rates — with Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Salamanca and 16 counties in the western part of the state.

A casino in the Capital Region would pay a tax rate of 45 percent on slot machine revenues, compared with 37 percent in the Southern Tier and 39 percent in the Catskills.

Anti-gambling activists took a sledgehammer to a slot machine in front of the New York State Capitol, to demonstrate their opposition a ballot amendment to legalize gambling casinos in New York.

Currently, gambling is restricted to tribal lands and in slot machine parlors located at racetracks.

A policy regulating how to spend the city's share of Seneca Niagara Casino slot machine profits may come to a vote as soon as April 11, said City Council Chairman Andrew P. Touma.

Attorney General George Jepsen cautioned Tuesday that a tribal casino in East Windsor should not open without formal approval by federal regulators of amendments to existing slot machine revenue - sharing agreements with the state.

Maney also recommends regulators keep an eye on what he calls «vulnerable populations» like seniors, who frequent slot machine parlors.

Madison County officials are unhappy with Cuomo's decision to veto a bill that would provide them with a host - county share of the slot machine revenue generated within its borders.

Turning Stone would be granted exclusive rights to Las Vegas - style gambling in Central New York, but the Oneidas would have to give a share of their slot machine revenues to the state.

As a part of the creation of the Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls, an agreement was reached to give a percentage of the slot machine revenue to the City of Niagara Falls each year to spend on local tourism projects and projects relating to hosting the casino.

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.

Despite objections from neighboring Oneida County, senators voted 57 to 1 to share with Madison County a percentage of the slot machine profits the state receives from the casino in Chittenango and from two Oneida Indian gas stations.

In 2015, Oneida County received $ 14 million from the Oneida Indian slot machine payments in addition to the annual $ 2.5 million payment.

The New York State Senate is considering a bill that would amend a landmark 2013 agreement with the Oneida Indian Nation and the counties by awarding Madison County 25 percent of the state's share of slot machine revenue from the new Yellow Brick Road Casino, which opened in 2015 in Madison County.

After the latest controversy, Cuomo's aides ordered the state Lottery Division to withhold slot machine payments earned at Aqueduct race track, worth about $ 3 million dollars a month, starving the financially shaky NYRA from a vital source of revenue.

The Senecas say they are abiding by the terms of the compact the tribe signed in 2002, which they say called for the tribe to share a quarter of slot machine revenues at the three casinos in Western New York.

To deal with Indian issues, the governor revealed that he is trying to get the Oneida tribe to acquire exclusive rights for gaming in central New York by paying the state something akin to what the Seneca and Mohawk tribes have agreed to provide, which is 25 percent of slot machine revenue.

Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo released an awkward, undated photo of herself and three friends standing next to a winning slot machine at the Saratoga Casino and Raceway to counter questions about a questionable financial form submitted to the state.

The slot machine in the background says jackpot totaled $ 28,737.82.

The Institute for American Values intends to smash a slot machine outside the Capitol next week.

The Senecas believe they're no longer required to pay the state a portion of their slot machine revenues.

The Senecas and the state are also in the middle of a stalled arbitration process to decide a dispute over slot machine revenue.

The Senecas believe they are no longer required to pay the state a portion of their slot machine revenues.

The state believed the Senecas were supposed to pay a portion of their slot machine revenues on July 1st.

The total is about seven percent of what the Oneida Nation realizes, from slot machine revenues, at Yellow Brick Road Casino.

Oneida County receives 25 percent of the state's slot machine payment (approximately $ 12.5 million) along with an annual $ 2.5 million payment to settle past tax claims.

Slot machine and table game revenue from casinos in the Finger Lakes, the Southern Tier and Schenectady have fallen short of the rosy revenue projections made when operators were applying for licenses several years ago.

Valesky has introduced legislation that would give Madison County 25 percent of the slot machine revenue the state gets from Yellow Brick, the same arrangement Oneida County has with Turning Stone.

As far as the cities of Niagara Falls, Salamanca and Buffalo, which play host to Seneca Nation casinos, Gates says they'll continue to receive that slot machine revenue; though due to recent declines in profit, he says the overall amount will likely be less than before.

Madison County officials are unhappy with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to veto a bill that would provide Madison County with a host - county share of the slot machine revenue generated within its borders.

Oneida County is being paid $ 48 million in back taxes over 19 years and a 25 percent share of all of the Nation's slot machine revenue for being the host county to its Verona - based Turning Stone Casino.

Here's the Cliff - Note version of the dispute: For 14 years, the Seneca Nation has operated three casinos in western New York, providing 25 percent of its slot machine revenue to the state and local communities the casinos are based in.

The state, Oneida nation, and Madison and Oneida counties announced a deal May 16 giving the Oneidas» Turning Stone casino a monopoly in 10 Central New York counties in exchange for 25 percent of slot machine revenues.

The advocates took turns smashing up a Lucky 7 slot machine at a park near the State Capitol as TV news cameras recorded the event.