And sometimes, gaming authorities have forced less busy bars to give up machines, and even paid legions and other non-profits to allow them to be relocated to higher traffic venues. When given up voluntarily by bars, clubs or legions they are placed in other locations. How do they do it? When a bar or restaurant closes temporarily, machines are moved to other locations. The machines that have been called the “crack cocaine of gambling” have been regularly moved around to pull in more money, though the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation prefers to say it’s providing an “optimized offering.”įor years, VLTs in the province-not including those on First Nations-have been subject to a declining cap on numbers.īut an investigation by King’s journalism students has found that the gaming corporation, and its VLT operator, the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, have worked to beef up the returns on the ones that remain, partly to hit provincial government revenue targets.
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