Casino in Toronto?

[Atheral]

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/237580

Mayor David Miller and several high-ranking Toronto councillors yesterday said they would consider a full casino at Woodbine Racetrack to help dig the city out of its financial misery.

Hmm... A fully loaded casino in Toronto... Could be interesting!

[Audiogenic]

It would make us closer to a world class city (not).

[divx]

Terrible for people with no self control

[SwiZz]

Terrible for people with no self control

Sign me up.

I just pissed away $60 at party poker in like 10 minutes the other night.....but I'm sure I will win next time!

[UrbanPoet]

ill stick to RFD lotto pools.
$4-$10 worth of lotto tickets a week is good enough for me.

[15-20_God]

If the casino is run like the city is run we may have the first casino in history that consistently loses money.

[BaconMunch]

For some reason, I can only thing of the Simpson's episode where they decide to build a Casino there?

Remember when Simpson's was cool and everything in life could be related to Simpson...

[UrbanPoet]

it would be a good boost to tourism.

[Firebot]

A Casino should have been built a long time ago. Toronto is in dire need of one, when Montreal has one, and cities like Edmonton and Calgary has a bunch. I should NOT have to be force to drive over an hour just to get a game of poker in, the closest sanctioned poker room is in Brantford and Niagara Falls. The problem has always seemed to be that the province would object to it, so that people can flock to Casinorama and go to Niagara Falls for tourism.

I'm all for a casino being built in Toronto. Heck doing so would be first thing that Miller has done right for the city.

[TenzoR]

I think they need to better manage the money before trying to get more moeny (just to be wasted away). It's a good idea to generate revenue but on the other hand hald the revenue will be wasted so making it pointless.

[ferkel]

If the casino is run like the city is run we may have the first casino in history that consistently loses money.

That is so true. We still have till 2010 with this Island Airport killing Mayor.

[Pete00]

I'm all for a casino being built in Toronto. Heck doing so would be first thing that Miller has done right for the city.

[CodecX81]

Terrible for people with no self control

Trust me, its terrible as-is..

I was at woodbine a few weeks ago.. just to pass the time.

Saw a guy sucking in $100 bills into..... get this... Penny Slots!

I was playing $5, but he was playing max bet, which is 1 cent, 25 lines (25 cents) with a 50x multiplier.. $12.50 per bet! in 5 minutes he must've put in at least $1000..It never even delivered a single bonus round out of it.

He was hitting the machine when he lost too much, and kept doing a weird wiping motion (I guess to wipe away the bad luck?)

I dunno.. I was in awe.. These machines run on a version of Windows XP..so I don't know what wiping and hitting will do

But anyhow. Full casino, sure why not?

[atforum]

Montreal has a casino. And all I see is old people inside losing their pension funds yet coming back everyday. So the answer is NOOOOOOOo

[15-20_God]

He was hitting the machine when he lost too much, and kept doing a weird wiping motion (I guess to wipe away the bad luck?)

Its a traditional gambling ritual where you are hitting away all the bad luck, wiping your slate clean, and hoping your wife doesn't find out about it.