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Colorado Casinos to Get 24 hour Gambling
Friday, 19 December 2008 02:37
Stifled by restrictive state gambling laws, the casino lovers of Colorado are becoming fed up with being forced to leave their source of enjoyment at an hour when they were just getting started. By closing at 2am every night and having to restrict wagers to a paltry $5 maximum, casino owners are also feeling the pinch. Something had to change and gamblers in the state have forced a major rethink on its gambling laws.
The result is that new laws have been passed which will enable Colorado casinos to remain open 24 hours and to raise wager limits from $5 to a more respectable $100. The laws won’t come into effect until July 2009, but with the new operating hours and more realistic betting limits which have been approved by voters, Cripple Creek casinos are set to be the first to bring in the new measures.
To add to the obvious delight of local gamblers, the changes also enable casinos to offer a wider selection of games. Cripple Creek residents will also be given the green light to enjoy casino games which have hitherto been denied them. These will include the ever popular table games of craps and roulette. Two casinos which are already beginning to plan the new changes are the Gold Rush Hotel and Casino and Gold Digger's Casino.
The casinos have been given six months in which to prepare themselves for the twenty four hour opening times by expanding staff numbers, which will provide a welcome boost to local employment. They will also have to make the necessary alterations to the casinos in order to accommodate the new games as well as the increased gambling limits.
A highly popular aspect of the new measures that are to come into force next year is that taxes on casinos will not be allowed to be raised. The only way that can happen is with a state wide affirmative vote throughout Colorado.
This new move will see Colorado heading in the same direction as several other states with regards to the expansion of casino gambling. It came as no surprise that in order to coincide with the November elections, several other states used the event to set in motion the expansion of their own gambling laws.
