Texas Lottery to expand ticket sales at checkout lanes

Comment #15

LottoMetro — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 22:31:00 GMT

Thomas, 55, has been playing the Texas Lottery for two decades. His fortune hunting takes a $30 bite out of his weekly pay, but he's won about $1,000 over the years. His most recent good fortune was a $100 win on a bingo lottery ticket.

I don't want to be rich, Thomas said. I'd be satisfied with $40,000 just enough to buy a double-wide, an acre of land, an old truck and pay my bills.

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Comment #14

noise-gate — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:56:41 GMT

Personally, l would have no problem with them selling lottery tickets at the checkout lanes. Just NOT when you have 5 or more people standing in line, wanting to get out of there on with their lives...especially if someone requests $200 worth of tickets.

Comment #13

Stack47 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:21:43 GMT

The KY race tracks have simulcast off track betting and some of them added slot machines and many of those machines are almost exactly the same as the slot machines in most casinos in other states. The only difference is the KY machines must have a horse racing theme, probably because of Kentucky state gambling laws.

Never been to Derby City Gaming, but according to their web site, those slots are like the ones at The Red Mile and the other seven slot machine casinos located in Kentucky. IMO... [ More ]

Comment #12

Bleudog101 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:19:46 GMT

I forgot a semi colon. What I meant is there is one 'casino' not far from the TN border off of I-65. One outside of Lexington and one, the only non-smoking one in Louisville, KY. I do not need to frequent the other two, I agree with you about the appearance of the machines, and to satisfy, or more like circumvent state law on bans on slot machines they have to be based on old horse races. All of them have a button that here says 'Race results'.

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Comment #11

Tucker Black — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:51:30 GMT

If he had saved his money instead of spending it on lottery tickets, he would be halfway towards his goal of $40,000. Sad.

Comment #10

KY Floyd — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:47:14 GMT

Thomas, 55, has been playing the Texas Lottery for two decades. His fortune hunting takes a $30 bite out of his weekly pay, but he's won about $1,000 over the years.

Hmm. $30 X 52 weeks x 20 years = $31,200. If he badly underestimated how much the modest wins add up to maybe he's only down about 20k.

I'd be satisfied with $40,000 just enough to buy a double-wide, an acre of land, an old truck and pay my bills.

All it takes is $1 and a dream. A really small dream.

Comment #9

Stack47 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:27:59 GMT

Never been there

So you have no clue what type of slot machines they have at The Red Mile. The machines I saw were three and five reel video slots with bars, sevens, and cherries. They had three digit numbers (probably just for show) but winning or losing was based on what is on the pay line.

One in Lexington area, just over the border from TN

Lexington is about 100 miles north of the TN state line.

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Comment #8

cottoneyedjoe — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:02:16 GMT

Stop Predatory Gambling never makes any headway because they are trying to appeal to state governments with moral/ethical arguments. Instead SPG should appeal to players with economic and math arguments. Religiosity is on the decline and nobody cares about poor people. These guys are too religion-focused.

Comment #7

Bleudog101 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:11:56 GMT

Never been there. We have Ainsworth 'slot' machines here in Louisville. State law prohibits real slot machines, on these you play and hit show race results and they come up and that's how you win/lose on the 'slot' machine. They have the same ones in Indiana; I don't like Ainsworth machines. I'm not confused one bit. One in Lexington area, just over the border from TN and our Louisville one. Don't know about NKY @ Turfway. Churchill Downs conveniently owns the property Derby City Gaming is on. I... [ More ]

Comment #6

Stack47 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:49:13 GMT

When was the last time if you were at The Red Mile?

It sounds like you're confusing the slot machines with the off track betting on the second floor.

Comment #5

Bleudog101 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:08:58 GMT

Same here with casinos. They have three 'pretend' ones here that look like slot machines but are based on old horse races. We just go to Indiana, tons of them there.

Like I said before @ the Vanna White WOF the KY lottery had here months ago got to meet the Director of KLC-from the FL lottery and complimented him on their progressive lottery in that you can play most games on-line.

Comment #4

sully16 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:27:24 GMT

Come to Michigan, we have them all over. Road trip.

Comment #3

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:24:16 GMT

Yeah, there are some legislators in Austin that want to get rid of the lottery, and they almost did a few years ago, then realized they were going to have a big,big shortfall in the budget and decided to keep the lottery.

We should have casinos in Texas also, but they just won't allow them. I live less than an hour from WinStar in Oklahoma, and we go up there once in a while. There are mostly Texas license plates there.

Comment #2

music* — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:21:23 GMT

Instead of telling us what not to do, advise us to save and invest for retirement.

$91.3 billion in sales in the U.S.

$52.8 billion in prizes. I am waiting and playing for my share of the pie.

A lot of Americans do not even have $1,000.00 in savings. This would be a beginning.

Even here in California the funds for the schools are a drop in the bucket.

Comment #1

Bleudog101 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:36:05 GMT

Why not? You can grab a candy bar, etc on your way out. Might as well play lotto too. Oops, wait a minute, thought Texas wanted to get rid of the lottery

Texas Lottery to expand ticket sales at checkout lanes

Lottery Post — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:36:48 GMT

Charlie Thomas, a home health care provider who also scrubs floors in the evening, says he buys lottery tickets every time I get a paycheck.

Thomas, 55, has been playing the Texas Lottery for two decades. His fortune hunting takes a $30 bite out of his weekly pay, but he's won about $1,000 over the years. His most recent good fortune was a $100 win on a bingo lottery ticket.

He was less lucky one day last month: The $2 scratch-off he bought at an East Austin convenience store came up empt... [ More ]