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Portable Pokies

March 27, 2006 on 10:51 am | In Slot machine articles online |

Casino games such as roulette are finding their way onto Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) - those ubiquitous handheld computers you see people playing with on subways and buses everywhere. The US State of Nevada has now legalised some games for realtime gambling on these devices:

“Regulations passed Thursday make Nevada the first in the nation to approve the use of handheld devices for gambling in any public area of the state’s casinos, such as restaurants and poolsides. Rules allow a range of games, including bingo, poker, blackjack and horse race betting. Use in hotel rooms and other places that cannot be supervised is prohibited.”

MSNBC Article

The usage is restricted to public areas in casinos - but it may not take long for permitted usage to increase to citywide or even statewide. The next step after that is for slot machines to be simulated on these devices.

There is a lot of money being invested in developing the software:

“Cantor has sunk “millions of dollars” into development”

Slot machine manufacturers have enormous development resources and could easily tailor their games to run on remote units - no more jostling for slot machines to play - just take your PDA and play where and when you like.