Internet Sweepstakes

[Darth Biscuit]

What's with these little internet cafe's popping up all around NC with this "Pot O Gold" sweepstakes, and the little sweepstakes video machines in convenience stores? My wife and I saw one of the internet cafe's yesterday out walking... I haven't been in one, so I was just curious.

[Johnny Rockets]

I would like to know also, I pass one on the way to work and have alwasy wondered. Windows are all blacked out so you can't see inside. Color me curious.

[88 Bronco]

It's where you get this

[Darth Biscuit]

Damn... the whole internet? For FREE!!!

Sign me up.

[Scrumtrilescent]

lol @ cock does not go in duck.

[Darth Biscuit]

As I understand it they are psudo legal gambling establishments.

I dont know exactly how they work but it has something to do with buying lottery tickets that allow you to play games. If you win then they manipulate the lottery in such a way that they can pay out.

Some weird sidestepping of the video poker ban.

This is what I figured... some loophole in the gambling laws being exploited.

[CosmoGirl]

It's video poker. For each dollar you play, you get a minute of phone time on a printout but some places don't give that to you. You give the money to someone who works there then they use a little remote thing to put your money in the machine.

The pot o gold is the bonus if you hit a certain combination and it sends you to a screen where you select a pot of gold which multiplies your winnings by the amount uncovered in the pot.

[Darth Biscuit]

It's video poker. For each dollar you play, you get a minute of phone time on a printout but some places don't give that to you. You give the money to someone who works there then they use a little remote thing to put your money in the machine.

The pot o gold is the bonus if you hit a certain combination and it sends you to a screen where you select a pot of gold which multiplies your winnings by the amount uncovered in the pot.

Sounds hokey to me...

[CosmoGirl]

I don't like not being able to feed the machine directly but it's pretty much the same as playing video poker or keno in the casino.

[Darth Biscuit]

I don't like not being able to feed the machine directly but it's pretty much the same as playing video poker or keno in the casino.

Do you win anything?

[The Saltman]

o u win cash...:leaving:

[Scrumtrilescent]

Sounds like the third rate casino from Vegas Vacation.

Pick a number!

[The Saltman]

lol papa georgio

[sunbunny]

The one here in Wilson is always packed. I didn't have a clue how it worked, either.