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LEBO -- Beto Junction Travel Center's video games carry "Phone Card" and "Phone Time" labels in a bid to put linguistic distance between these potentially illegal devices and the intensely regulated and heavily taxed slot machines available at Kansas casinos.
A dollar inserted into one of the truck stop's machines provided immediate access to a game that looked like, played like and paid like a casino slot. One of these "for amusement only" device's produced a stub promising a $6 payoff, while others were good for $5 toward a telephone calling card.See the full content of this document
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The cash transaction at Beto Junction paralleled the action of authentic slots at Boot Hill Casino and Resort in Dodge City, the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane and soon-to-open Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
That is a point of interest to officials at the Kansas Lottery, which fills the role of owner at the three casinos, as well master of the old-school lottery."If there is...See the full content of this document
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