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Originally Posted by BlueShoe
Not in Arizona either, a Red State, and this has always puzzled me. Have considered moving there, but this no ADW has given me pause. From what I have been able to find out, the legal Arizona otb sites are very small and primitive compared to the big California ones, mostly bars and restaurants, things like that.
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Furthermore, unless you happen to live in a densely populated area (Phoenix, Tucson), you may not have a site within an acceptable driving distance to warrant sitting at a table and watching one television while some barmaid harangues you into meeting the drink minimum.
A state like Arizona was made tailor made for account wagering. You don't have to wear a helmet to ride a motorcycle and can pack heat in the grocery store, but they want to constrain the ability to wager based upon narrow interpretations of idiotic premesis like "racing enclosure". Meanwhile, there's a casino pretty much anywhere you travel by highway. So rather than capitalize on the sporadic settlement nature of the state and the reclusive propensities of its property loving citizens, the racing hierarchy (aka TuP) attempted to force those that wanted to gamble to inconvenience themselves by unsuccessfully forcing them to seek out and attend one of the TuP owned OTB sites.
It's an amazing reality that speaks to the actual intent of long-term viability of the premier racetrack and its ownership that they have willingly allowed this preposterous idea to continue and actually stood in the way the one time removing its shackles was initiated.
