West Virginia Casinos

[lucylawless3858]

I gamble frequently at Tri State in Cross Lanes, W. Va. I had an employee tell me the other day that sometimes the casino does not meet their monthly payback percentages on their slot machines and when that happens they are fined and just pay the difference every month. I have never heard of such a thing, but of course not many states run their own casinos either. Do you think this has any merit?

[SteveBourieOLD]

Re: West Virginia Casinos

I wouldn't think that would be possible. The West Virginia Lottery is partnered with the track and I don't see how the WV Lottery could be violating its own standard of a minimum 80% payback on the machines.

Also, the W.V. Lottery publishes on their web site each week the payback percentages for the machines at each track. Below is the latest report for the week of August 2, 2008.

Unfortunately, it lost a lot of the formatting characteristics when I pasted the information in. However, it shows that the machines at Tri-State returned 90.32% during that week and 90.41% overall since January 1, 2008.

RACETRACK VIDEO LOTTERY FISCAL YEAR 2009 - For the week ending August 2, 2008

MOUNTAINEER
AMOUNT PLAYED 46,105,473
AMOUNT WON 41,804,514
MWAP CONTRIBUTION 17,408
ADJ GROSS TERMINAL REVENUE 4,283,551
# OF VLT's 3,206
*

WHEELING ISLAND
34,194,935
30,838,134
15,214
3,341,587
2,028
*

TRI-STATE
10,881,335
9,828,710
6,944
1,045,681
1,571
*

CHARLES TOWN
90,707,886
81,388,642
39,503
9,279,741
5,014
*

TOTAL
181,889,629
163,860,000
79,069
17,950,560
11,819




Year-to-Date as of August 2, 2008


MOUNTAINEER
225,840,211
205,002,727
100,203
20,737,281
3,201
**

WHEELING ISLAND
163,618,989
147,516,234
71,428
16,031,327
2,051
**

TRI-STATE
55,636,166
50,302,472
41,240
5,292,454
1,544
**

CHARLES TOWN
433,999,571
389,635,247
197,513
44,166,811
5,023
**

TOTAL
879,094,937
792,456,680
410,384
86,227,873
11,818