Last weekend I met up with an old friend from my home town in Kansas. He was in Las Vegas for a couple of days blowing off some steam with another friend of his. Turns out my old friend from Kansas is quite the political pundit. So when I told him that I was a registered Libertarian, and thus would be voting Libertarian across the whole ballot in the upcoming elections, he asked why?
"The Libertarian movement puts people's economic and civil liberties at the forefront. They also believe in a very limited scope of government." My friend's reply? "So your telling me that we need to cut the government's role in our life tremendously, and then leave a lot of decisions up to our own device? The thought of self governance won't work." I needed to make my statement a bit more clear to my friend, so I told him this.."I agree with you on self governance not working. It's not that I'm saying the government's role in society should be abolished. It needs to be scaled back tremendously! In my opinion, especially nowadays! The size and scope of government is getting in the way of progress in this country." My friend then looked at me and said.."I agree with you that the size of government needs to shrink. The question? How much?" Both of us shrugged our shoulders.
"Spencer, let me show you and Bassom what the future of gaming is." At the time all three of us were walking through the Venetian. They were attending a show in an hour, in the meantime, I wanted to educate them on a few things Vegas. "Take a look at this. This is what you would call Real-time." We were sitting in the Race & Sports Book at the Venetian, and I was showing them the latest advancement in Race & Sports gaming. (Real time) gambling can be defined as such:
Generally when a person places a wager on a race or sporting event, they have limited options to choose from, and then are forced to wait on the outcome of that option. Real time allows gamblers a much wider array of choices to wager on. Example: In a real time setting a person would be able to bet on whether a player makes or misses a free throw, or hits a double versus striking out. Basically, every which way you could imagine to make a bet on an event! Real-time will provide the option..
I could tell that I was getting through when I looked at them and they were both nodding as if they were agreeing. Spencer then asked me this.."I'm impressed and both of us think you are right, but what are all the legalities of an operation like this?" My reply? "First of all, parimutuel gaming is perfectly legal online in this country (Parimutuel gaming is horse and dog betting)..Online Poker is not legal..That's going to change after the elections. As we speak, the government is in the process of running out all of the foreign operators, the intention is to hand all of the business over to domestic operators. By the way, the very first thing that will happen in the State of Nevada legislature in 2013. They will legalize online Poker play, once that happens? Sporting events will follow! Why would the United States government do this? Revenue! Think of it this way! The government is going to tax the sin out of it..One last thing, the United States makes up 70% of the online gaming business! It's a multi-billion dollar business! How much revenue has our government got from it? Zip, zilch, Nada, nil! One last final thing and then I will shut my pie hole:) If and when they legalize online gaming, the revenue predictions are ASTONISHING! 50 BILLION BY 2015! 100 BILLION by 2020!"
After I was done with my rant, I looked my two friends in the face. Call it a sixth sense? They were interested. The only question they had for me? "How do we get connected into the scene?" In a number of previous blog posts, I write heavily about ORGANIC GROWTH STRATEGIES AND GUERRILLA MARKETING..My concerns about web development and CAPTURE PAGES are very minimal. Since both of my friends are accomplished web developers. "Spencer, Bassom, listen up! We need a boots on the street approach, and Las Vegas is just the town for it! I'm very familiar with the psyche of this town! Not to mention I could find a number of foot soldiers to help promote our efforts. All of us know an effort like this has to start on the streets. The ultimate goal is to get it viral..ASAP..but its got to start some where."
I like to end every post of mine with a thought I'm having..Call it the village idiot thought of the day.."I don't care how good an idea is or sounds. It all starts on the street! I liken it to putting a big jigsaw puzzle together. All the pieces are lying on the street, and it's my job to find them and put them together. A friend of mine told me that an analogy like that sounds hokey. That may be so, but it's still understandable to most."
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