Speaking to Colorado Politics in February, Trey Franzoy, who runs Charlie Chedda\u2019s arcade and internet caf\u00e9 in Colorado Springs, described the dynamics of the machines versus real casino slots. His property was raided in 2015 and he was charged with the \u201cunlawful offering of a simulated gambling device.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve ever played a regular slot machine, you can just hit play. It will spin and stop and give you whatever you won,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a pure game of chance. Whoever hit \u2018Play\u2019 at that particular moment in time is the player that\u2019s going to win.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cThe way our games are different is they are a pattern recognition game. You\u2019re having to pick the winning pattern. Nothing is going to be given to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Senator Bob Gardner (R-Colorado Springs), who sponsored the bill in the Senate, said anyone who had a \u201cbeef\u201d about \u201cthese so-called games of skill\u201d had a \u201cproblem with the Constitution of Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Apparently the law, as clear as it is to me, is not as clear to some,\u201d he said about a law that was previously not clear until he lobbied to change it so it would be more in line with his own point of view.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently, some people can be confused. House Bill 1234 really enables and enacts the Constitution, and that’s all it really does,” he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The days of Colorado\u2019s sweepstakes arcades are numbered. Legislation passed by both chambers and currently winging its way to the Governor John Hickenlooper\u2019s desk will close the \u201cloophole\u201d that allowed skill-gaming arcades to flourish outside of the state\u2019s three designated gambling zones: Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek. Detractors argue the arcade machines, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":77255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,13,61,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Colorado Gambling Law Tweaked to Ban Skill-Gaming Machines<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n