ON - “New method for slots panned”
Tue, January 23, 2007
Going from tokens to paper slips won’t help addicted gamblers or staff, a watchdog says.
By JOE BELANGER AND PAT MALONEY, London FREE PRESS REPORTERS
A gambling watchdog says new slot machine technology being used at Western Fair Slots fuels gambling addictions and will likely lead to layoffs.
But the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. defended its switch from the use of tokens to tickets for payouts as a “customer-driven” industry standard used at casinos around the world.
“The bottom line — you’re going to lose jobs at the casinos and it’s just another increase of the addiction potential of the machine,” said Roger Horbay, gambling technology adviser to Canada’s Gambling Watch Network.
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Further, said Horbay, the definition of a slot machine in the Criminal Code of Canada refers to the use of tokens.
“They can’t call them slot machines anymore because they’re not dispensing tokens,” Horbay said.
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