How I'm going to know if the casino's actually run with a modicum of sense.

The local racetrack in Washington County is destined to get a slots license. (Not because of any particular excellence of location, management, or otherwise, it's just that they created seven licenses for slots casinos attached to racetracks when they started this whole venture, and there's only six tracks in the state.) I was up there on Saturday, my annual trip to the Adios (noted in your guide to the statewide slots debacle, the "Casino Journal" here, as something that could be a big thing in two years, which would be good, because it got crushed in attendance this year because the Steelers had a pre-season game during it.) Something struck me about this. Payoffs in horse racing are set to go off in increments of 20 cents on standard $2 bets. You can see this as the change piles up there, the cashiers have stacks of dimes and pairs of quarters, but no nickels. Given that the art of any casino's business is the stress-free and painless removal of money from the attendee, (think like a slaughterhouse designed by Temple Grandin,) I have to think that one of the easiest ways to pull this off will be laying a path from the track betting windows to the parking lot filled with dime slots. That's how I'll know they're running this correctly. If I see a single nickel slot anywhere, I'll know they're incompetent. If anybody's at a combination casino/track elsewhere, could you please report back whether this is what's going on. I'd have to think that's standard operating procedure, but given all the bent quirks in the Pennsylvania process, I have no expectation of them following procedures that work.