I thought I would start this thread so we can all comment on what's being said in the threads at WoV. We lurk their site and they lurk this site. So my first comment is about the Oregon Eclipse Gambling thread. The OP went to the Oregon Coast for the eclipse. He commented about playing the Oregon Video Lottery games in the Sand Dune Pub in Manzanita, Oregon.
In Oregon, a bar, restaurant or stand alone business can have up to 6 VLT's. These are Class III machines owned by the state. The house gets a 20 to 25% cut of the money depending on how much of a total wager they get on a monthly basis. They are multi-game machines with mostly video line games and a couple of video poker games. There are 1200 locations in the state that have the VLT's.
The Deuces Wild game the OP commented on is a 91% game. All the games, video line games and video poker, are in the 90 to 94% payback range. However, there are a couple of AP'able games. There used to be three but one was taken off to make room for another game recently. I was in Oregon for quite awhile last spring. There were many times I went into a restaurant, had a good meal, tagged the AP'able games, and left the place with more money than I had on me when I went there.
The OP commented on the rivalry between Oregon and Washington. In Corvallis, home of Oregon State University, they call the Washington Huskies the Fuskies. It stands for fuck the huskies.
And someone commented on pumping your own gas. In Oregon that is against the law. I actually like it. I check my email and/or go get a cup of coffee while the attendent is filling me up. Two or three birds with one stone.
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That tells me they wanted WoV as a supplemental site that would draw some people to the parent site LCB as well as draw more people to WoO, which subsequently would draw people to LCB. There can be no doubt the WoV part is not delivering the numbers they envisioned despite any claims that they make. The members that sign on to WoV now averages about 160 on weekday, 175-180 on weekends, down from 300+ before the sale. 
I say that in jest, but as I said in another said recently, while neither (and especially combined) is my cup of tea, I enjoy the enthusiasm he showed. When he jumped of the unicycle and ran towards the camera all full of energy, like a teen age kid....that was the kind of enthusiasm he used to have for WoV. He wanted it to be a place where gamblers and players became better gamblers and players...just as the mission statement said. Now he is just going through the motions, and the site has deteriorated into that high school juvenile community because of it. 
