No change to FOBT stakes or prizes.

quizard · Post by **quizard** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 7:55 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23768435

:-)

anonamouse · Post by **anonamouse** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:23 pm

nothing to smile about. £100 stake to potentially win £500 in a bookie.

£2 stake to potentially win £4,000 in a casino.

I think that's better than 4/1, but my maths is poor.

feeder22 · Post by **feeder22** » Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:39 pm

I'll say these are going to be the next political scandal. The whole thing stinks of backhanders and favours amongst the rule makers and the bookies.

blatantly obvious they are a massive problem for a large percentage of people that use them!

That report alluded to the bookies circumnavigating the rules to exploit people even more.

spa · Post by **spa** » Sat Aug 24, 2013 9:23 am

"Instead, it would automatically put 40,000 jobs and 8,000 shops at risk for an industry that supports approximately 100,000 jobs and pays nearly £1bn in tax in the UK each year."

Now a clever government would now limit each shop too two units with 100% confidence the now 8,000 shops will become double in no time at all. Creating an extra 40,000 jobs.

Roll_With_It_Russ · Post by **Roll_With_It_Russ** » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:47 pm

anonamouse wrote:nothing to smile about. £100 stake to potentially win £500 in a bookie.

£2 stake to potentially win £4,000 in a casino.

I think that's better than 4/1, but my maths is poor.

its been £2 stake to win 4k in casinos for years, however I can count on one hand the amount of 4k wins i've seen.

jackpots on egms... 1000s

Roll_With_It_Russ · Post by **Roll_With_It_Russ** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:04 am

strange also it was all set for november, now its said that £100 cat C won't be till early 2014.

jeffvickers · Post by **jeffvickers** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:25 am

Roll_With_It_Russ wrote:strange also it was all set for november, now its said that £100 cat C won't be till early 2014.

Excellent News - At least some playables will get a stay of execution. The market is going to be flooded with shite when the changeover occurs. Reflex, JPM, Crystal, QPS, doesn't bear thinking about. It will be game over if Scientific Games get their 5 reel digitals into pubs. Unlike a few of the younger lads on here, I have a growing business to fall back on.

johncluedo · Post by **johncluedo** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:05 am

Game over!

ob · Post by ob » Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:45 pm

Isn't the market already flooded with reflex/qps machines? If you go to any big chain town centre pub or food chain pub you can nigh on garentee you'll find qps/reflex stuff! Often 3-4 off them in the same pub.

Chuck in golden game/double chance/triple dond and monopoly shites into that mix and you then have 90% of sited games in tc chain pubs.

ming · Post by **ming** » Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:52 pm

I saw a reflex crossed with a jailbreak today, its called double agent - trail of shit or something like that

ob · Post by ob » Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:09 pm

There's a lady luck trail of riches already so thats another one. I bet they do clones off all off them with "trail of riches" tagged on the end. Such a cheap company poor games all exactly the same no gameplay whatsoever all look the same ffs! They only get them bought as they must sell em dirt cheap.