http://www.wral.com/news/local/wral_investigates/story/7591471/


Anybody know where one of these cafes is around the Triangle area? I keep hearing that there is one near Cary Towne Center but can not figure out exactly where it is located.

[Edited on May 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM. Reason : link not image]

5/13/2010 3:17:42 PM

link/image fail.

aren't they everywhere now?

5/13/2010 3:18:11 PM

i think there's one at Celebration at Six Forks on the left end behind McDonald's

5/13/2010 3:19:20 PM

degenerate

5/13/2010 3:21:22 PM

biz center @ creedmoor and lynn rd

5/13/2010 3:26:11 PM

what the hell is a sweepstake cafe?

[Edited on May 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM. Reason : oh i clicked the link]

5/13/2010 3:27:12 PM

Quote :

""To pay some of those games, you probably need to be drunk to do it, because you're not going to win," Hoyle said."

More like ignorant and bad at math amirite?

5/13/2010 3:29:27 PM

plz guys i have a match tonight.

5/13/2010 3:30:28 PM

there's one at avent ferry shopping center

5/13/2010 3:31:19 PM

thx guys

5/13/2010 3:55:08 PM

the machines are in a number of bars around town

5/13/2010 4:24:52 PM

There's one on s saunders, just south of the beltline - it's on the right as you're headed south.

5/13/2010 4:47:48 PM

there's eleventy billion here in rocky mount

5/13/2010 4:51:05 PM

^ Why doesn't that surprise me.

5/13/2010 4:52:12 PM

thye have one at sunset grill.

i sell the phone codes to mexicans

5/13/2010 4:58:00 PM

couple on Capital and Tower shopping center.

obviously

5/13/2010 6:49:29 PM

Quote :

"biz center @ creedmoor and lynn rd"

I stopped by this place after work. As far as I can tell, its $.12/minute to buy time on the internet. And w/ that purchase they give you "entries" into sweepstakes (online slots)

I may be way off but I'll know more when I actually go back and gamble

5/13/2010 6:54:38 PM

the ones ive seen in bars dont have phone cards or sweepstakes or anything like that.

you give money to the bar, they put it on the machine for you, you play, and if you win it prints a ticket which you can exchange at the bar for cash.

5/13/2010 10:45:38 PM

NC Government is trying to get it them banned..
http://www.wral.com/news/local/wral_investigates/story/7803576/

I know it's a few days old but I've been out of town.

6/20/2010 12:36:27 PM

Yeah

I went to one on Friday night that opened right down from my house

I put in $20 and played for 2 hours and then cashed out when I had made $5

It was a lot of fun. Pay off isn't that good though.

6/20/2010 12:44:12 PM

obviously not. 2 hours for a $5 pay out.

6/20/2010 12:46:05 PM

It's the only thing keeping the local business real estate economy going here in Shallotte. Every empty store is not a Sweepstakes cafe. There must be >25 or so in this area.

6/20/2010 12:47:58 PM

but they paid her 5 dollars to have fun for 2 hours

fun is priceless

6/20/2010 12:49:13 PM

There is one inside the shopping center that has the Brickhouse, across from Meredith.

6/20/2010 12:50:44 PM

There are a shit ton of them in Fayetteville

6/20/2010 12:50:59 PM

there's one in the ghetto shopping center at tryon and lake wheeler

6/20/2010 12:53:24 PM

I mean I had 2 hours of fun and made $5

I could have gone to Frankie's Fun Park and spent $20 and gotten a friendship bracelet

6/20/2010 12:54:17 PM

where is the one you went to?

6/20/2010 1:00:27 PM

its in the shopping center at the intersection of Miami and Alexander...Sheetz shopping center


A couple doors down from Jersey Mike's

6/20/2010 1:43:22 PM

Next to Cheerz? Sweet another reason to go to Cheerz.

6/20/2010 1:44:51 PM

LOL yeah next to Cheerz

That shopping center is a joke after the lunch rush and on the weekends.


The World Overcomers blow that parking lot up on Sundays though.

6/20/2010 1:46:05 PM

CassTheSass and I went to the one across from Meredith.



for first timers, if you pay $10, they give you $5 free, so we did that.

I played smokin' 7's and bet high for each game so I only played for less than 5 minutes.



and won 19 dollar bucks.

6/20/2010 1:47:50 PM

You can say goodbye to those Sweepstakes Cafes
http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/7821335/

6/21/2010 11:10:21 PM

from ^:

Quote :

"He said the video-poker "sweepstakes" games encourage rapid gambling compared to scratch-off and nightly numbers games."

Rapid gambling? Pretty sure I've seen people stay at the gas station for hours with scratch-off tickets...

6/22/2010 7:20:49 AM

I went to the Miami Blvd one on Sunday. The guy working had no problem admitting it was a scam to do online gambling. Had fun.

6/22/2010 8:38:10 AM

So it still needs to pass the House.


I might make another trip to the sweepstakes cafe by my house this week just in case something happens.

6/22/2010 8:51:07 AM

I'm going to miss these.
Just went to Cheerz, got a sweet ass sub, ate it at the cafe and left with lunch paid for, and more than $20 more in my pocket.

8/21/2010 2:21:36 PM

LOL

I haven't been back since June. I might hit these up again sometime soon

8/22/2010 8:12:12 AM

sometimes I hate our government.

YOU LEFTIES VOTED THESE IDIOTS INTO OFFICE.

8/22/2010 10:41:55 AM

there is one off of New Bern Ave heading towards Knightdale in the shopping center by the Big Lots

8/22/2010 10:42:25 AM

Quote :

"YOU LEFTIES VOTED THESE IDIOTS INTO OFFICE."

When the choice is between these idiots and social conservatives then sorry, mang

8/22/2010 10:49:48 AM

haha, dems & reps politcians in NC have very similar social views. stupid christian, anti-alcohol, anti-gambling, etc views.

8/22/2010 10:52:44 AM

hmm yase they are socially equivalent*


*speaker is white, straight, christian, male

[Edited on August 22, 2010 at 11:22 AM. Reason : .]

8/22/2010 11:22:27 AM

It's not that they are against gambling - because the state runs the lottery system- they are against privatization of gambling because citizens make money and the government does not.

8/22/2010 12:13:59 PM

I'd love to see these banned. The 2 here in Hope Mills are rat-holes. So much smoke you can barely see, NASTY equipment, and not to mention they're right in prime real estate where I'd like my office to go

8/22/2010 2:52:43 PM

I have won there twice

8/22/2010 3:04:12 PM

BUMP

10/24/2011 9:26:12 AM

thx u

Ok for some reason, I'm just learning that these sweepstakes cafes are still open and operating. I just assumed that they all closed down after the new year w/ that law that was passed. But I guess they were able to change some things around to stay open and still be "sweepstakes cafes". I went to the one by my house yesterday w/ $20 and walked out w/ $200

10/24/2011 9:30:03 AM

There's a shitload of these places on Capital and S. Saunders. Which really shouldn't be all that surprising

I remember years ago a coworker of mine at the coffee shop loved to go to that giant bingo parlor on Capital. So she talked me and another coworker into going with her one night. It was fun but also kind of depressing to watch people you knew had zero money using what they did have to play bingo. I was also afraid of getting shot when we left the parlor after dark

10/24/2011 9:34:48 AM

So who is it that pays you, the sweepstakes cafe, or do you fill out routing stuff online

10/24/2011 2:57:33 PM