A bettor way on gambling is to see that nassauotb is open for us to bet. union leader kevin mccaffrey president teamsters local 707 & suffolk county legislator says people thst bet horses are dead
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| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GG | GOLDEN GATE FIELDS | 48 | 24 | 3:45 PM | 12:45 PM | PDT | |||
| LS | LONE STAR PARK | 72 | 0 | 3:35 PM | 2:35 PM | CDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 24 | 3:30 PM | 12:30 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 0 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | |||
| WO | WOODBINE | 72 | 48 |
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
No Vegas games. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
Betting on college sports like the NCAA basketball tourney is a source of harmless fun for millions. There’s nothing wrong with people filling out their brackets and trying to win their office pool.
But gambling can also be an addictive, self-destructive habit for the thousands of hardcore low-rollers who feed the beast — which is why moves to fully legalize sports betting in New York must proceed with extreme caution.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling gave each state the freedom to set its own rules. Jersey went all in, allowing not only in-person bets at Atlantic City casinos but online wagering as well. Surprise: Calls to the state hotline for gambling addiction are spiking.
New York already has a lottery, horse racing and more, not to mention the stock market. We don’t need to give tens of thousands a still easier way to lose their shirts and paychecks by letting them bet against the spread from their cellphones.
Legalization should be kept to the existing four casinos upstate, containing a potentially dangerous addiction while bolstering the sorry finances of casinos that, despite promises of economic salvation for depressed regions, are pumping out far fewer jobs and far less tax revenues than predicted.
Meanwhile, state lawmakers must hold the line on casinos in the five boroughs and its environs, where there are two not-technically-full-fledged betting parlors with virtual table games and the like.
The owners of Aqueduct and Yonkers racinos have floated a plan for each to pay a one time fee of $500 million to upgrade; the 2013 voter-approved amendment to the state Constitution allows up to three more casinos in New York.
No thank you. If we’re ever going to contemplate selling our city’s soul, we ought to get way more than that.
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