The criminal code prohibits games \u201csimilar to\u201d three-card monte, which, in the opinion of the Supreme Court, refers to the game\u2019s mechanics rather than an \u201cabstract feature of deception.\u201d<\/p>\n
To qualify as \u201csimilar to\u201d three-card Monte, a game would require, at minimum, a player betting on \u201cthe location of an object after a series of manipulations,\u201d wrote Justice Russell Brown on behalf of a majority of judges.<\/p>\n
\nNothing in the pleadings describes VLTs as operating in this manner,\u201d<\/strong> Brown added. \u201cThus, the claim that VLTs are similar to three-card monte has no reasonable chance of success.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\u201cOne would expect that, had Parliament sought to prohibit broadly deceptive gambling games, it would have straightforwardly done so,\u201d continued Brown.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In Canada, a longstanding lawsuit that sought to demonstrate that the Atlantic Lottery Corp\u2019s video lottery terminals (VLTs) were little more than deceptive \u201cthree-card monte\u201d games has been thrown out by the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court of Canada overturned a Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal decision that had cleared the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":143019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,69293],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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