Anybody frequent these? Several were busted last night but they mentioned one in particular on Tidwell off 69. My parents live near there and we always talk about how busy it is. It's crazy. It's been operating at least 20 years. Anyway I read an article a while ago that they operate openly because it's hard to build a case and the jail time and fines aren't enough to discourage owners because they make so much money
I saw that report to, I can only picture a set up like the grandma had Young Sheldon, it was a slot room off her laundry mat. Its odd because I have a gas station by my house and they have slot machines in them, never played but I assume that's gambling.
Most of the gas station slots aren't supposed to hand out cash is how I understand it.I think it's the way all of them operate openly. I worked a door to door sales job with a guy that took me to one he would frequent while we were working and they paid him in cash
Yeah I meant to change that sentence to say this. They operate openly because they aren't supposed to hand out cash but they do but that's how they exist not handing out cash but they are
There's a gambling place in my area that has opened, closed, and reopened at least a dozen times. It's always the same people/ name -- sometimes they kind of hide it away in an old shopping center, but always lots of advertising out front (LUCKY 777, etc). Their most recent venture was a large gambling/ CBD operation in a new building like it was a Walmart supercenter. They always last about 6 months then disappear -- how they make it a day being so blatant is difficult to understand. They use some sort of gift card system to make pay outs, but I'm sure there is more to it than that.
I knew some girls that would bartend at those places. Said they would make like 2-3k a night for 3-4 hours. High rollers but def a dangerous place to be. Shootouts.
I used to see them when I was a kid and think they were arcades. My dad used to tell me "you're not going to find pac-man in those game rooms...."
My friend that lives in Katy accidentally stumbled into one looking for the bathroom at a cafe...something you'd see in a movie.
Those multiplayer fishing table games look like something my kids would love. My buddy on Galveston PD said the city had seized a few and they were slated to be destroyed…I asked him if one of them could be disintegrated into my truck. He said no.
I have some family members that used to run these things for most of the 90s and early 2000s. I think their business was only in the leasing and maintaining of the machines though.
Was down in Texas last month, Woodville, for my father's funeral. Went to a smoke shop to get my wife some gummies. There were three slot machines in there.
