Starting July 1, 2009, gambling in Russia is allowed only in special gaming zones, which are located in Altai, in the Kaliningrad Region, Primorsky Territory and on the border of the Rostov Region and Krasnodar Territory. This law also affected slot machines that were popular until recently. There was a time when "one-armed bandits" stood in almost every deli and brought their owners billions of rubles of uncontrolled profit.
How it all began
In the mid-90s, casinos and civilized slot machine halls began to open in Russia. Beauty and luxury attracted the “new Russians” and those who wanted to be like them. The situation gradually began to get out of control, the revenue of gambling establishments was almost impossible to trace. The owners of gambling establishments earned superprofits, gamblers remained homeless, families disintegrated, and sometimes people took their own lives when their debts grew to astronomical amounts.
In addition to fashionable casinos, the so-called "gaming halls" began to appear, where gaming machines were located in a basement or cafe. In the mid-2000s, it was impossible to have so many of them that the authorities rightly sounded the alarm. Now almost everyone was involved in the gameplay, regardless of age and social status.
Gambling swept all over Russia. The usual situation: a regular customer of slot machines lost all the money that was in his possession and asks for a loan. At first they refuse him, but he stands his ground, he is sure that right now luck will surely smile at him and he will certainly win back. The loan was received - the "one-armed bandit" has been launched, but there’s no luck on the Internet. As a result, the amount of debt is growing, and the player does not know how to repay the debt. Excitement is like a drug. A person cannot adequately respond when his whole mind is immersed in the game.
There is a company that produces slot machines for the blind. A special soundtrack that helps blind people to understand what is happening on the screen.
Slot machines, which, as a mass disease, spread throughout the country, no one controlled. When the owner of the slot machine wanted to lure players, he set a high percentage of redemption, people won and came again. It was a kind of "promotion" of the institution. When the attendance of the institution increased, the owner sharply cut the percentage of extradition and the players began to leave money there abruptly. Not a single regulatory body in our state could force the owners of gambling establishments to set a fair percentage of return. It turns out that people were simply robbed.
