Jax Kennel Club to open poker room near Regency Square Mall

[Tacachale]

Sounds good to me, so long as the state holds them to the gambling laws so as not to infringe on our compact with the tribes.

[duvaldude08]

Im not sure if anyone's paid attention, but they completely redone the building. The outside looks really nice! I seen it last week when I was at Regency. Someone previously was under the impression they were not doing anything to the outside, so I decided to mention it. (cant remember who is was though).

[coredumped]

Time for an Arlington construction update!

(hey, we have the beaches and downtown, why neglect one of the densest populations in town??? Need a photo guy for arlington? ?).

Here are some photos I snapped today:




You can hardly recognize it. Lookin' good.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

[thelakelander]

Wow!  That looks a lot better than Garden Ridge.

[urbanlibertarian]

Wow!  That looks a lot better than Garden Ridge.

I'll bet (pun intended) it employs a lot more people than Garden Ridge and at a higher average wage.

[Anti redneck]

Just out of curiosity, why regency? Why not mayport if they're trying to attract navy men?

[thelakelander]

Perhaps there was no Garden Ridge store to purchase that was a good distance away from any public schools or churches?

[Charles Hunter]

I'm not sure sailors are the prime demo ... and if so, it isn't that hard to get to via Wonderwood and Monument from Mayport

[duvaldude08]

Wow!  That looks a lot better than Garden Ridge.

I know right!  They have hooked that sucker up big time.

[TheProfessor]

They need to come work on the mall next!

[Anti redneck]

They need to come work on the mall next!

Good luck with that!

[urbanlibertarian]

From the TU:

Gambling addiction groups wary of new Jacksonville poker room

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-02-28/story/gambling-addiction-groups-wary-new-jacksonville-poker-room#ixzz1nmeGuBnE


By Adam Kealoha Causey

A new Jacksonville poker room may seem a sure bet for the owners’ pocketbooks, but gambling addiction support groups and community leaders say BestBet Jacksonville could be a bad deal for card players.

Florida gambling addicts cite card games as the second most frequent cause of their financial woes, according to the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling. Slot machines rank No. 1.

Television should take part of the blame, said Brian Kongsvik, who runs the Florida council’s help line. A nearly constant offering of blackjack and Texas Hold ’em shows glamorizes poker.

“At any given time of the day or night you can turn on one of the sports channels and there’s going to be a tournament on,” Kongsvik said.

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-02-28/story/gambling-addiction-groups-wary-new-jacksonville-poker-room#ixzz1nme6O0FT

From medicinenet.com

Estimates of the number of people who gamble socially qualify for being diagnosed with a gambling addiction range from 2%-5%, thereby affecting millions of people in the United States alone. Although more men than women are thought to suffer from pathological gambling, women are developing this disorder at higher rates, now making up as much as 25% of individuals with pathological gambling. Other facts about compulsive gambling are that men tend to develop this disorder during their early teenage years while women tend to develop it later. However, the disorder in women then tends to get worse at a much faster rate than in men. Other apparently gender-based differences in gambling addiction include the tendencies for men to become addicted to more interpersonal forms of gaming, like blackjack, craps or poker, whereas women tend to engage in less interpersonally based betting, like slot machines or bingo. Men with pathological gambling tend to receive counseling about issues other than gambling less often than their female counterparts.

http://www.medicinenet.com/gambling_addiction/article.htm

So yes, gambling can be addictive for 2-5% of the people who try it.  Does that mean that it's good policy to try and keep the other 95% of adults from enjoying gambling if they decide to?  It's going to happen whether it's legal or not.  Shouldn't it happen out in the open where the occasional problems can be dealt with without the threat of prosecution?

[copperfiend]

Should be a boost for that area. The interior looks great.

[Kaiser Soze]

No thanks.  Will stick to throwing dice in back alleys and knocking backs Cobras.  Someone needs to open a Bunny Ranch over their in Regency Square Mall.  Make that happen then you will find Kaiser Soze throwing around his hard-earned money.