Petition on the ADW fiasco

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Originally Posted by Scav

The ADW's should have all tracks and not have to pay outrageous fees to get them. Sure they have the 'availability' to get them but they would lose money to take them. They would have to differiate themself by SERVICE and perks instead of TRACKS they care. Arlington Park has every single track possible for simucasting, why should I have to use three separate services, some with only phone wagering and some with retarded rules?

They need to understand that it would be better for the industry and better for the PLAYERS, the people that RUN the industry, that have all tracks on ALL ADW's would be even healthier competition then having to play Arlington/Churchill on Winticket and Saratoga/Del Mar on Youbet. I used to be able to play all four on one friggin ADW, and having to go from screen to screen, it is garbage.

Here's what I think:
1. ADWs should carry the tracks they can agree to a contract on. The fees they pay are not generally outrageous, imo. Rather they're quite modest.
Why should an ADW or a simo facility keep more of the takeout than a host track?
2. It's not as if these ADW-Racetrack contracts are unilateral. If a deal cannot get done between a track and a specific ADW provider, it's just as likely the track as the ADW was the reason a deal did not get done.
3. If every ADW had every track, that would hurt competition. The smaller handle ADWs would get squeezed more and more until they went bust.
4. The only way you will get what you're asking for is if the CDI/Magna platform gains enough traction so that it is the exclusive ADW for those tracks. And that assumes they will somehow pick up NYRA ad DelMar. I don't think it is going to happen.