Hal’s son and his friends also met us up there so we had a fairly large group and we all headed down to the old casino after suffering thru the buffet. Hal claims he wins most of his jackpots in the old section. Hal headed straight for the $2 Star Spangled Sevens slots by the players club and his son and his son’s friends went with him. Jerry and I found a $5 blackjack table and decided to give that a try for a bit. I have always hated the $5 ante they make you pay in Oklahoma. But, we played anyway. Jerry and I played for about half an hour and the table was just moving sideways. So, we quit, both down about $20. When you think about it, without the ante, we would both have been even or slightly ahead. But, we were bored so we quit anyway.

We then found Hal playing a $1 Lucky Duck slots machine. There were six slot machines in this particular bank of machines. I found an empty seat two down from him and put in $100. Things were not going well for me. I was down to $20 before I got a red screen and it spun four times and I ended up with $360. I played it down to $300 just to see if my machine was hot (it wasn’t) and I cashed out at $300. Meanwhile, Hal was up and down but cashed out even. One of his son’s friends was playing next to Hal on the end and he cashed out $80 ahead.

After that we moved over to Hal’s favorite machines, Star Spangled Sevens slots. Again, Hal went to the carousel next to the players club. It features $2 and $5 machines. Hal kept alternating between the $2 and $5 machines. His play was up and down. Sometimes he was ahead $700. Other times I would see him around $200. As I was playing at a bank of $1 Star Spangled Sevens next to the carousel, I could watch him out of the corner of my eye or take a break and get up and go over and check him out. I played $100 into a couple of machines, but, could never get anything to happen.

Around this time, Jerry took off on his own for while. He returned half an hour later with a $500 ticket. He had played the $1 Star Spangled Sevens slots toward the front door of the old section of the casino. About an hour later, I headed up there myself and wast rewarded with a nice $500 winner myself!

One thing I should mention is that there is a group of people who play Star Spangled Sevens slots almost exclusively and Hal knows them all. He had is IRS ticket from earlier in the week with him and he was showing it to everybody. And, I was wrong. It was not for $23,278. It was for $23,600!

By now it was getting close to midnight. I told Hal that we were going home. He said he was leaving as well as he had to get up early the next day. I knew he wouldn’t leave right away as we said goodbye. But, that is Hal. Jerry and I went to find my wife who was now down in the old section of the casino playing Wizard of OZ slots. She did not have a good night. I guess there is not much more to say about that. We then headed up to the new casino and I went into the high limit area to try the $2 Elvis King of Coin slots that I won $800 on earlier in the week. Immediately, I won $30. So, I decided to play that and another $50 to see if I could hit anything at all and keep playing for a while. And, I didn’t. So, I went over the the high limit cashier and cashed in all of my tickets.

On the way to the parking garage, my wife suggested I try $100 in a $2 Lucky Duck machine. I gave it a try, but man! I just did not get a thing. So, after that debacle, we went straight to the car. For the evening, I ended up about $440. My wife was down $400 and Jerry won about $200. Not bad for a night entertainment.

So now it is about 1:30 in the morning and we have just arrived back home and the phone rings. It is Hal. He tells me he has just won $8K in the high limit area of the new casino on a $5 Mr Money Bags slot machine! Unbelievable, the luck this guy has. I talk to him the next morning and he says he won another $1,600 on a Hot Red Ruby slot machine on the way out the door. Wow! Wish it was me.

It is really hard to believe the luck this guy has. But, I have seen either the IRS ticket or the casino checks for his big wins and have personally witnessed a number of them. Looks like we are headed back up to Choctaw Friday evening to get the all you can eat crab legs at the buffet. In addition to meeting Hal up there, we are bringing another friend of mine along. Should be fun.

So, I decided that this was not my night and that I was done. I went to find my wife and watch her play. She was down about 4300 herself when I found her playing a Secrets of the Forest slots game. As soon as I got there, she won some free spins and from there things went really well for her. I can never win anything on that machine. But, last night my lovely wife won $600 playing it.

After she cashed out she decided she wanted to play a Wizard of Oz game and we started walking over toward the buffet (where it used to be – but not anymore) past the high limit area. On a whim, I stepped inside and went to play the Elvis King of Coin slot machine next to the entrance to the mens bathroom. This is a $2 machine and one of my friend Hal’s favorites. I put $20 into it and immediately started getting red screen after red screen. I had seen this happen to Hal before, but never has it happened to me. Within just a couple of minutes, I was up to $880. I played it down to $800 and then cashed out.

I had about $100 beyond the $800 ticket in my pocket and tried some more Red Hot Rubies slots, but they just were not hitting for me. I did win another $50 on a Lucky Duck slot machine. At the end of the evening, I walked out $442 ahead. I talked to Hal. Looks like we will be going back to Choctaw sometime later this week.

Dan Winslow, a Republican, isn’t necessarily trying to open up full-scale online gambling in the state, but is indeed proposing that Massachusetts permits players from outside of its own borders to participate, which is different than some of the proposals in other states concerning games that are played over the internet.

Winslow believes that what he has proposed is consistent with what is in the bill, but that doesn’t mean everybody agrees with that. The treasurer of the state, for example, has called it a violation of federal law. No doubt that won’t be the end of the resistance. People could attack it on two fronts: (1) the interstate aspect, and (2) the fact that it is online.

If Winslow is successful in getting his proposal attached, and the bill passes, there could be internet poker in the state as early as next July.

To this point, there had been no form of regulation, so companies who were pulling in German customers were not paying any tax. However, the state of Schleswig-Holstein will permit any company to enter the market and pay a 20% tax.

There are fifteen other German states, though, and they want more. The European Commission is looking at those proposals as they have been identified (by those within the industry) as being rather oppressive.

That is why the Schleswig-Holstein action has been welcomed. The state had been willing to go along with the other states and have one unified piece of legislation, but as it turns out, that was not possible.

The games of blackjack, baccarat and roulette would not be allowed under the new legislation. Everything else, including sportsbooks, poker, and betting exchanges (like Betfair, for example) are permitted.

People in the industry are waiting to see what the effect of the maverick action of this single German state is going to be. It is quite possible that the other states will go along with the model established by Schleswig-Holstein in order to be competitive, and the EU’s influence should have a bearing on it as well.

Two of the most notable are Bwin and William Hill, who have pointed primarily toward Europeans. The U.S. market is obviously very coveted, and the companies see a little “softening” in the attitude on the regulatory front, even in the wake of the shutdown of a number of gaming websites earlier in the year, which included the seizure of domains by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Bwin is reportedly in deep conversations with a companies that operate in three states – New Jersey, California and Florida – that they hope will soon pave the way for legal online gambling. William Hill has already bought a couple of small land-based operations. One must assume that Bwin is talking to land-based casino companies as well, since any campaigns in individual states to legalize online business would likely requite the companies to be licensed specifically in that state.

This also reaffirms the suspicion that any legislation that would be passed by Congress would likely lean favorably toward companies that already exist in the U.S. and conduct so-called “physical” gaming operations, over brands who have operated online and have pointed toward the U.S. Those companies, even those that have suffered from domain seizures, still have something valuable to deal, as they already have existing customer lists and active accounts with U.S. players.

This has always been a popular pursuit in Las Vegas, and for good reason: it’s a game where you don’t have to contend with and dealers or distracting you on the “field of play.” It amounts to what you are able to do against the house. And when you log on to a casino to play free online slots, you can get them in a number of different varieties. That is yet another part of the appeal. You can play the so-called “traditional” version of the game, which has a single payline, and that might be the kind of machine you grew up playing and being familiar with. Then, you can also play the more advanced virtual machines, which allow for a lot of paylines – up to 50 in some cases.

As you may have guessed, having more paylines in free online slots offers more ways to win. And setting it all up is very, very easy. All you do is access the controls at the bottom of the interface, and pick the number of lines that you want to be “active.” Then, click the “Spin” button and simply go for it! You’re going to find that you’ve got action all over the place. What is so intriguing about sitting and playing what we term the “multi-line” slot game is that your spin could be over, and it doesn’t look like you have anything, but then, Boom! You are a winner in ways you might never have imagined. Free online slots players experience this all the time. Don’t you think it’s time you gave it a try?

Dirty Dancing Slots are slated to be released immediately to casinos worldwide. I know that my wife is looking forward to playing this game. A review of the game will be posted as soon as we have had a chance to play it.

From what Hal tells me, the machines do not have a slot for your players card. That does not seem to bother him as long as he is winning – yeah no kidding! He hit $2,500 on a Mr. Money Bag machine and then got Red Ruby, Red Ruby, triple bar on a Red Hot Ruby slots game. So, two IRS tickets and the rest he built up the balance over the two hours he was there. A total of $6,400.00 won in a little over two hours. Great evening for Hal!