West Virginia may get table games
 

I will have to say that West Virginia is progressive when it comes to gaming. There is a bill that would allow the tracks in WV to have table games. This bill is in response to PA getting slots. I wish other states (KY and Ohio) would follow WV. Other sources of purse revenue has helped WV racing over the past decade. It is good to see the state trying to make racing a good product.

Where in WV can you bet on horses?? Other than Mountineer?? Any OTB's or dog tracks up that way

I am headed up there in April and always nice to play some

There's a dog track in Charleston.....I know, I stopped there while driving to Lexington for NYC. Also, isn't Charles Town in West Virginia?

No OTB's...yet. Mountaineer and Charles Town are the two thoroughbred tracks, though it's hard to consider CT in WV...in the eastern panhandle, it's closer to DC and Baltimore than it is anything relavent in the state.

As BTW mentioned, for dog tracks, Cross Lanes (between Charleston and Huntington) and one up near Wheeling (can't think of the name off hand) which is not all that far from Mountaineer.

Charles Town is WV. there is an exit for it off I81 but it's still out of the way.

Considering the disasterous condition of the state's economy, they have to stay ahead of their neighbors to keep the bus loads of cash coming in. I don't have the exact figures, but you would be amazed at what percentage the revenue from slots, dogs, and horses represents in the overall picture of the state's total income. Scary, really.

Dog track in Wheeling is Wheeling Downs----offers just about every thoroughbred, harness and dog track.

well believe it or not it's kind of a wide open state so your gonna have to clarify what part of the state your headed to.

Mountaineer is in the upper pan-handle near Pitt. i believe.
Wheeling Downs: home of the $3 perfecta (dog track) is upstate as well also near Pitt.
Cross Lanes (dog track) is in Charleston, WV: 40 miles or so from the WV-KY-OH border
Charles Town is in Ranson, WV about 60 miles outside of Washington DC
No OTB's that i know of

This table game thing has been long proposed thing, around 2-3 years ago when i was at school (Marshall University, about 10 miles from the KY border and 2 miles from the OH border) they wanted to put a casino in downtown Huntington near the Marshall campus, it got shot down. If any state needs the revenue it's WV. I believe it's one of the poorest states in the US next to Mississippii, believe it or not who has all kinds of casinos. Closest casino is about 10 miles past L'Ville in Indiana (which is around 220 miles from Huntington), Ceasars on the Ohio River. Indiana also has another casino some where further north. Personally, i wouldn't want see the state get the table license, but they could use the money. Like i said this was a proposed issue a couple years ago, why it would get passed now with how well the slots are already doing is beyond me


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Charles Town when taken into consideration is the best area that would serve the gambling public because of its distance from Baltimore and Washington D.C. and VA, I would take a wild guess and say more then 60% of WV gambling proceeds are from out of state visitors which makes both MD and VA idiots for letting all those dollars out of state.

Mountaineers gaming floor is like a geriactic clinic. I put the average age at 60 on the floor.

God it would be nice if they had a pokerroom, or expanded that crappy little horsebook, maybe had a players room. All of tht would be nice

That specific dog track is my all-time favorite for off-track betting.

They have always had many touch-screen video replay machines....and they have many other useful things available to the bettors.

The places in Pennsylvania are much cleaner and the food is better at some of them---however, they don't have all of the tools every competently run off-track betting facility should have.

Isn't Charles Town in Charles Town, WV? Charles Town is the place where John Brown was tried back in the 1850's.

Anywho, I think Penn National made something like $400 million in revenue from slots at Charles Town in the last quarter of 2005. I can't even begin to imagine what the take would be from table games.

Argosa, Belgera and Grand Vic are closer to Huntington than Caesars. They're right next to Cincy.

True, but i want no part of traveling anywhere in the state of OHIO, cops there are notorious for pulling people over for going 56 in a 55, and it also makes no sense to drive to Lexington then (which is 110+ miles) then take 75 North, which in the end is around the same distance to get to L'ville.

Plus, i have never made the trip solely to head to Ceasars, its always been a detour whenever im near Churchill. But i would gladly drive the extra 40 miles to stay on 64 West.


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http://www.ctownraces.com/site/index...d=17&Itemid=36

hard to tell where Ranson stops and Charles Town begins


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is there a part in the bill that provides for free dental work...:D

Having been to Charles Town dozens of times, I can tell you it's a stone's throw away from the city hall where John Brown was tried and hanged. I'd say it's called "Charles Town" and not "Ransomn for a reason. There are some interesting things in Ranson though.

I mean, im not trying to make this into a pissing contest but I have been going to charles town since '93 and if you enter charles town from the front stretch you will see a sign that says "welcome to Ranson" probably 50 ft from the parking garage/barns.

I have a pretty good idea of what you’re alluding to when you say there are some interesting things in Ranson:D


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From their website:

Charles Town Races and Slots, U.S. Route 340 Charles Town, WV 25414

From Google:

Charles Town Races & Slots
www.ctownraces.com
Flowing Springs Rd Route 340 N
Charles Town, WV 25414
(304) 725-7001


Not trying to stir it up, I was curious myself...