2022
01.04

Do Not Drink … Play!

[ English ]

If you like to have a drink every once in a while, leave your cash out of the casino if you plan to do your drinking in a casino. I’m serious. Empty your pocketbook, your wallet, and leave all money, charge cards and checkbooks back at the hotel. Grab whatever cash you intend to use on beverages, tipping and whatever pocket change you expect to throw away and leave the remainder behind.

Contemptuous? Not really. Realistic more like. You could have a win after a inebriated night out with your acquaintances and be blessed enough to hook a 25 minute roll at a on fire craps table. Keep that account considering that it’s as brief as it gets if you regularly drink and bet. These activities simply don’t go well together.

Keeping your cash back at the hotel is a little dramatic, but defensive actions for drastic behavior is required. If you bet to profit, then do not drink and play. If you are able to afford to toss away your $$$$ without a concern, then drink all the gratuitous alcohol you can handle, but don’t carry credit cards and checkbooks to throw into the mix of following squanderings after your dead drunk self loses all the cash!

Permit me to carry this one step more. Don’t consume alcohol and then jump on the net to wager in your favorite online casino either. I enjoy a beer from the coziness of my abode, but because I am hooked up through Neteller, Firepay and have charge cards near by, I can not drink alcohol and bet.

How come? Although I do not drink alcohol a lot, when I consume alcohol, it’s clearly adequate to befuddle my common sense. I bet, so I don’t drink when betting. If you are more of a drinker, do not bet at the same time. The two mix up for a ferocious, and costly, cocktail.

2022
01.04

Bingo in New Mexico

New Mexico has a bitter gaming past. When the IGRA was signed by Congress in Nineteen Eighty Nine, it seemed like New Mexico would be one of the states to get on the Amerindian casino craze. Politics guaranteed that would not be the case.

The New Mexico governor Bruce King assembled a working group in Nineteen Ninety to draft an accord with New Mexico Native bands. When the task force came to an agreement with two big local tribes a year later, the Governor refused to sign the bargain. He held up a deal until 1994.

When a new governor took over in 1995, it appeared that Indian betting in New Mexico was now a certainty. But when the new Governor passed the contract with the American Indian tribes, anti-wagering forces were able to tie the deal up in the courts. A New Mexico court ruled that Governor Johnson had overstepped his bounds in signing the deal, thus denying the state of New Mexico hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing revenues over the next several years.

It took the Compact Negotiation Act, passed by the New Mexico legislature, to get the process moving on a full contract between the Government of New Mexico and its Native tribes. A decade had been squandered for gambling in New Mexico, which includes Indian casino Bingo.

The not for profit Bingo business has gotten bigger from 1999. That year, New Mexico non-profit game owners acquired just $3,048. That climbed to $725,150 in 2000, and surpassed one million dollars in revenues in 2001. Non-profit Bingo revenues have grown steadily since then. 2005 witnessed the biggest year, with $1,233,289 earned by the operators.

Bingo is apparently popular in New Mexico. All sorts of owners try for a bit of the action. With hope, the politicians are through batting over gambling as a hot button factor like they did in the 1990’s. That’s probably wishful thinking.