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We have a ballot question this year where they want to put slot machines in a huge outlet mall in our area. Would slots being at the mall make you any more or less likely to shop there with your children? Or allow your teens to shop alone at the mall?

If so, which ones? Thanks!

I have never been to Las Vegas and I plan on playing slot machines but don’t know how they work. I know that I can use a player’s card and that casino’s have tokens/chips, but do the machines take actual pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters? Thanks.

Or can you just pick out the card/s without taking all of them? There is some debate in my family over this rule. No I do not mean when you pick from the pile to use the cards. I am talking about someone lays down a card in the pile that could have been laid [...]

For instance, if my tray is full and I am winning more chips, is it ok to take some of the chips off the tray and put them in my pocket while I continue to play? Do the casinos allow this? Also, if I want to take those chips out of my pocket and play [...]

I’ve only been playing online for a short time and haven’t had a chance to enter a tournament yet (I play on Party Poker if that information is needed to answer the question). Thanks in advance.

How much money would it take to open up a casino? Im not talking about a illegal casino, im talking about the real deal, a normal casino with black jack table and ect… Would this be a good investment and how much money will it need to start up. I got 100 mill coming into [...]

We have seen people win millions of dollars at the world series of poker or the world poker tour, and they always splash the table with the money when they are down to two players left, but how does the winner take that money home? Do they put it in the trunk? Do they wire [...]