California Governor, Arnold Schwarzeneger is up in arms with several Indian tribes (the state's most powerful) as to how casinos are totaling the amount of slot machines being operated on the casino floor.  The tribes, which include the Sycuan, Barona, Morongo, Colusa and Berry Creek are currently limited to two-thousand machines in each casino, which is precisely what Schwarzeneger is in cahoots over.

The governor has threatened to shut down six casinos (two of which are the largest in San Diego County) if the tribes do not either change the way in which they tally the total amount of machines on the casino floor or remove a particular type of gambling machine that is at the center of a heated debate.

The machines in question are multi-station games which enable several gamblers to bet at a single time.  The most popular of these games are blackjack, craps and roulette games that offer up to ten betting stations/seats per machine.  Tribal casinos have tallying each multi-station game as a single machine, whereas the Governor is saying they should be tallied according to the number of stations.

The defense of the casinos is that each station is operated by a single computer chip (Random Number Generator).  And although several other California casinos offer multi-station games that have a far greater ratio of stations per computer chip, the Indian casinos in question have limited the size of their multi-station games.

The tribes offering the games submitted a compromise to Governor Schwarzeneger, which he promptly rejected.  In fact, Schwarzeneger stated that if the tribes did not comply with his demands by August 8, 2006, he would seek a federal order to revoke the gambling compact for each casino.