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Most Popular Non-Table Casino Games
The non-table casino games usually include the games played in mechanical or electronic gaming machines like Pachinko, slot machines, video lottery terminals, and video poker, as well as random number casino games, such as Bingo and Keno.
Pachinko is a Japanese gaming machine for playing casino games and could be used for gambling or general amusement. The pachinko would resemble a vertical pinball machine but would not have any flippers and the balls would be smaller but in large numbers. The player should propel a ball into the machine, with a controlled initial speed. The ball would cascade down through pins arranged like a thick forest. If the ball reaches the bottom without falling into certain pockets, the player would lose the game. If the ball fell into a pocket, more balls would be released as a kind of jackpot to the player.
The conventional slot machines had been mechanical devices with 3 to 5 reels that would spin when the player pulled the lever places in the side of the machine, which earned them the name one-armed bandits. However, modern slot machines had been fitted with a push button at the front instead of the side lever, though some of them still have the lever along with the button.
The casino games played at video lottery terminals allow the players to gamble on the outcome of certain video games. These terminals differ from slot machines, because they are connected to one centralized computer that would control the outcome of each bet through a random number generator process. Even though the operators of video lottery terminals usually program them in advance to fix the number of payout and the amounts that the central computer could allow at all its connected terminals.
The casino games of video pokers are based on 5-card draw poker played on computerized consoles similar to slot machines. The video pokers were the direct outcome of the development of computers. The video pokers were found far less intimidating than the poker casino games played at the casino tables and gained in popularity very quickly.
Other famous non-table types of casino games are Keno and Bingo. The traditional Keno casino game would use a circular glass enclosure having 80 balls of ping-pong ball size. The balls would be numbered from 1 to 80. The enclosure, termed as bubble would be agitated with air pushed into it from a blower. The player would press a lever to open a V shaped tube and the balls would lift one by one into the tube. When 20 balls had been drawn, the player and the verifier of the casino would record the balls and the computerized system would calculate the bets depending on the numbers that had been drawn.
Cleveland Has Been Named the Lottery Capital of Ohio
Cleveland Has Been Named the Lottery Capital of Ohio
Known by many as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Capital of the world, Cleveland, Ohio has now been dubbed the Lottery Capital of Ohio by the online lottery information site LuckyLotto. This comes as no surprise to Jeff Geffert of Mentor. “I could see how this could be true,” says Geffert, an avid lottery player. “Cleveland is a dying city with a ton of blue collar people that play the lottery everyday in hopes of striking it rich and improving their plight.”
LuckyLotto, an online lottery website specializing in lottery news and information conducted a study of the lottery in Ohio that yielded some surprising results. LuckyLotto reported that Cleveland, in Northeastern Ohio, has more lottery terminals per capita than any other city in Ohio.
According to the official Ohio lottery website, Cleveland has 492 lottery terminals. That is 5.97 lottery terminals per square mile. And Cleveland residents are keeping these terminals busy. “It seems like we have been selling more tickets lately. Especially when gas goes down a couple cents, people seem to buy more lottery tickets,” says Matt Jones, cashier at the local Cleveland Speedway station.
While it may seem more likely that Columbus, Ohio’s capital, would have more lottery terminals, that is not the case. Columbus has only 2.45 lottery terminals per square mile. In fact, big cities Cincinnati, Dayton and Akron were all outperformed by Cleveland when it came to lottery terminals per capita.
With the current state of the national economy, many may be surprised to hear that the lottery is booming in Cleveland, a city that has long suffered from economic instability. Contrary to popular belief, a decline in the economy does not lead to a decline in lottery play. According to Ashley Martinez, a cashier at the Cleveland BP station, Cleveland ticket sales have been up lately. “I estimate that 1 in 3 customers buy a lottery ticket when they come into the store.”
The truth about the lottery is that someone always wins and people always hope that it will be them. When the economy struggles, people seem to have more hope that they will win the jackpot. As a result, a decline in the economy seems to lead to an increase in lottery play. Cleveland lottery players say they would welcome the sale of online lottery tickets. Players in an unfamiliar neighborhood would not have to wonder where to buy lottery tickets-they could use their cell phone to make an online lottery purchase!
No matter what the reasons for the immense popularity of the lottery in Cleveland, LuckyLotto is pleased to name Cleveland the “Lottery Capital of Ohio.”