could this method WORK?

[jbrent33]

In Alabama there is an ongoing legal battle surrounding the use of slot machines at the dog track that is kind of similar.

The owner installed a ton of slot machines but calls them sweepstakes machines. He then installed a huge bank of computer terminals, that he calls a cyber cafe. When you purchase internet surfing time you get a "sweepstakes card" with a certain number of entries on it. You then take the card down stairs and get a pull on the slot for each of your enrty.

It has been back and forth in the courts several times, the local sheriff announces he is closing the place and taking the machines, then the dog track owner gets an injunction from a judge because sweepstakes are legal in Alabama.

According to my friend who plays the dogs, he has never seen a single person using surfing the internet in the cyber cafe.

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Dogtrack sweepstakes
Latest venture doesn't violate state's anti-gambling law, judge decides

BIRMINGHAM (AP) — A gambling magnate's latest "sweepstakes" venture doesn't violate state gambling law, a judge ruled Tuesday in clearing the way for a new moneymaker at the Birmingham Race Course.

Dog track owner Milton McGregor found a loophole in Alabama's lottery law with his new sweepstakes video machines, and law officers can't stop him from operating the devices, Circuit Judge Scott Vowell decided.

Vowell said the machines — which resemble video gambling terminals commonly seen in casinos — are "a sham" designed to make customers believe they are gambling when, in reality, the outcome is decided as soon as they purchase credits that let them use the devices.

"The operation looks and sounds like a gambling casino, but under Alabama law it is not," Vowell ruled.

Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale had deputies confiscate about 300 of the sweepstakes machines during a raid in December. During a hearing last month, his attorneys argued the machines were illegal gambling devices disguised to resemble a legal sweepstakes.

But Vowell disagreed and ordered Hale not to raid the gaming center again and to return all money seized in the December raid.

The machines had been returned earlier under a court agreement that they not be used until the judge ruled.

During the hearing, lawyers for McGregor and a video machine manufacturer told Vowell that hundreds of terminals resembling slot machines are a legal promotion to entice people to buy computer time at the track's new Internet cafe, increase wagering on dog races and sell more food and drinks.

Customers get 100 free sweepstakes entries for each $1 they spend on computer time, and then they use the video machines to read electronic cards that reveal whether they are winners, the attorneys argued.

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It pays to have good lawyers, here is a picture of the non-slot machines