Mike Cichy

Commissioners got positive news from Mike Cichy, the manager of Lien Games in Fargo, which provides the simulcast signal to off-track betting parlors in the state.
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Cichy said that in the first two months of the state's new budget year, which began July 1, bettors have spent $10 million in wagers.
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Once the handle tops $11 million for the biennium - which Cichy predicts will happen in September - the state's tax on simulcast bettors drops to one-quarter of a percent from 4 percent.

Commissioners also were told that this year's North Dakota Horse Park racing season has been a success, with total revenue of about $187,000 as of Sunday.

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Mike Cichy, the company's general manager, told the Racing Commission on Tuesday that the plan is similar to systems in at least two other states.If repeated in North Dakota, it has the potential to rejuvenate the state's flagging gambling industry, Cichy said.

Mike Cichy, general manager of Lien Games, said Ernest Dahlman Jr. of Las Vegas and Henry Hackle of Armonk, New York, would each own 5% in Lien Games.
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Dahlman and Hackle, who bet large volumes through the Skydancer Casino off-track betting site in Belcourt, North Dakota, have helped drive a large increase in handle since mid-April, Cichy said.

Mike Cichy, general manager of Lien Games, told the North Dakota Racing Commission on Tuesday that the plan has the potential to rejuvenate the state's declining gambling industry, the Associated Press reports.
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"I've got people that want to plug money into setting the system up," Cichy said, although he did not disclose who would financially back his plan or estimate how much money might be wagered under his proposal."The racing commission can shut it down any time they want.We just need permission to start it up."

Cichy pressed the state for action, stressing that regulators in other states might want to capitalize on the venture, according to the Associated Press.
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Cichy and Andy Stronach have sought to use permissive North Dakota laws to develop new wagering machine concepts.
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Cichy said the prototypes, which have an Internet function, are being testing in North Dakota because of the state's permissive laws for placing wagers through electronic machines.

"The laws in North Dakota are set up so that as long as it's a legal bet on a track, any electronic means can be used to place the bets," Cichy told the Fargo-Moorhead In-Forum in January.

Mike Cichy, general manager of Lien Games, which was awarded the state's only simulcast license after Racing Services and its founder, Susan Bala, were indicted in 2003, said that his company has a tentative contract with three big bettors who wagered $1-million on simulcast racing in Iowa last week, the Fargo-Moorhead Forum reports.