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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K/A
Amendment No. 1
(Mark One)
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ANNUAL
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
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For the
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TRANSITION
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934 (NO FEE REQUIRED)
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Commission
file number 0-08962
KENILWORTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as
specified in its charter)
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NEW YORK
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84-1641415
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(State of incorporation)
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(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
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185
WILLIS AVENUE,
MINEOLA, NEW YORK
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11501
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(Address of principal
executive offices)
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(zip code)
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(516)
741-1352
(Registrants telephone
number, including area code)
SECURITIES REGISTERED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(B) OF THE ACT:
NONE
SECURITIES REGISTERED
PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(G) OF THE ACT:
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(TITLE OF
CLASS)
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Common
Stock, par value $.01 per share
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Indicate
by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to
be filed by section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to
such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ý No o
Indicate
by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of
Regulation S-K (Section 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein,
and will not be contained, to the best of the registrants knowledge, in
definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in
Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this
Form 10-K. o
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in
Rule 12b-2 of the Act).
Yes
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The
aggregate market value of the registrants Common Stock held by non-affiliates
of the registration based on the closing price as reported on the Pink Sheet
Market on March 15, 2005 was $11,300,000.
As
of March 15, 2005, 141,226,245 Shares of the Registrants Common Stock,
$0.01 par value, were outstanding.
Portions
of the Registrants Proxy Statement for its 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
to be filed are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K.
At
the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on July 17, 2002 the Shareholders
approved the issuance of 20,000,000 Shares of restricted Common Stock to
Herbert Lindo, the President of the Company for having assigned to the Company
the Patent that was granted on June 10, 2003. Titled SYSTEM AND
METHOD FOR REMOTE ROULETTE AND OTHER GAME PLAY USING GAME TABLE AT A CASINO.
Upon Mr. Lindos request, the Shares have not been issued. (See Part III
Item 12 Beneficial Ownership (1).)
At
the regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company held on December 1,
2004 at which all six (6) members of the Board of Directors were present,
the Directors (with Herbert Lindo, the Chairman and President abstaining)
unanimously voted to issue 25,000,000 shares of restricted Common Stock to
Herbert Lindo for having assigned in October 2003 to the Company, the
Patent which is pending titled METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING FUNDS TO A
TERMINAL FOR REMOTE WAGERING (lottery terminals). Upon Mr. Lindos
request, the shares have not been issued (see Part III Item 12 Beneficial
Ownership (1)).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
In
addition to historical information, this Annual Report on Form 10-K
contains certain forward-looking statements and Risk Factors. We expressly
disclaim any obligations on undertaking to release publicly any updates or
revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any
change in our expectations with regard thereto or to reflect any change in
events, conditions or circumstances on which any such forward-looking statement
is based in whole or in part.
Readers should amongst the other statements contained
herein and future filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q to be filed, carefully review
in Item 7 the following: Cautionary Statements for Purposes of the Safe
Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and
Risk Factors. All of the Risk Factors contained therein should be carefully
read.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO PART IV
This
Amendment No. 1 on FORM 10-K/A is being filed to restate certain amounts
which changed as the results of having been ordered by the Securities and
Exchange Commission to file the Companys Financials as a Development Stage
Company from the period beginning November 24, 1998 to the present at December 31,
2004, the elimination of $4,256,926, which was the amount the Company disbursed
on or about September 28, 1998 to be discharged from Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Proceedings, and certain adjustments to losses sustained for the periods ended December 31,
2002, 2003 and 2004 for having discounted
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Convertible
Promissory Notes from between ten cents ($.10) per share and twelve cents
($.12) per share to five cents ($.05) per share. The Company also added in PART II Item 5-
MARKET PRICES OF THE COMPANYS COMMON STOCK AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS:
d)
The Company issued 48,246,656 shares of its Restricted Common Stock since December 31,
2002. All of the shares may have the
restrictions lifted pursuant to Rule 144 and 144K within one (1) or
two (2) years which may substantially depress the trading price of the
Companys Stock in the future.
PART I
ITEM 1DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
THE
COMPANY
Kenilworth
Systems Corporation, hereinafter referred to as Kenilworth, the Company or we,
was incorporated on April 25, 1968 under the laws of the State of New
York. Kenilworth has been a publicly traded Company since 1968 formerly
on the National NASDAQ Market, presently on the OTC Pink Sheet Market since
emerging from Bankruptcy Proceedings in September 1998. Kenilworth
is now being presented as a Development Stage Company.
GENERAL
Since
early in the year 2000 we have been solely engaged in developing patents,
markets and investigating how best to obtain Governmental approvals, by
engaging lobbyists and consultants that would allow television satellite and
cable subscribers throughout the industrialized world to play and wager along
with live, in-progress casino table games (Roulette, Craps, Baccarat and more)
from strictly regulated casinos located in the United States and other
locations around the world.
Employing
the latest encrypted satellite and cable technology and placing television
cameras in strategic locations above the casino table games, without disrupting
the normal game-monitoring activities, (a separate control room would direct the
various camera angles), and transmitting the table games over the digital
satellite and digital cable networks to television sets (TVs), which become
a platform for playing along with the casino games wherever TVs are located.
Kenilworth
titled the overall proposed project Roulabette. There are 120 million
TV subscribers in the United States and more than 300 million subscribers
throughout the rest of the world (The Market). On average, households
in the U.S. have 2 ½ TVs. (It is important since the satellite and cable
companies will charge a separate fee for transmitting the table games).
Public gathering places can accommodate (be able to network) up to 200 TV sets
with a simple satellite receiving dish or direct cable connections. With
wagering possible in homes, hotel rooms, resort rooms, pubs, restaurants, race
tracks and other public gathering places the Company believes will become a
more than $500 billion net win Market
within five (5) years throughout the industrialized world.
To
best market the casino games, the Company is selecting lotteries throughout the
world to manage and operate the distribution and cash handling (deposits to
play and paying winnings) using the lotteries existing databases for the sale
of lottery tickets, and paying winnings at regular lottery licensed terminal
locations.
All
forty one (41) lotteries in the United States are owned and operated by County
and State agencies. Throughout the rest of the world lotteries are owned
by government agencies or non profit charitable agencies that distribute the
net earnings to benefit social and charitable programs, or by private entities
that pay a percentage of their net win to designated government agencies.
These
foreign lotteries also have the same databases as lotteries in the United States,
except most lotteries throughout Europe pool their lotteries between countries,
not unlike Mega Millions and PowerBall in the
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United
States, which makes the distribution simpler and very cost effective for both
Kenilworth and the lotteries.
There
are no technical breakthroughs required. The technology is readily
available. What is needed is to get through the maze of Local, County,
State and Federal regulations in each U.S. State and foreign countries.
When the first State in the United States grants the Company permission to
transmit the broadcast from one of its casinos to their residents and to States
that do not have any casinos, (the entire East coast of the United States), the
other forty (40) States with lotteries will join expeditiously.
The
lotteries will receive forty percent (40%) of the net win without costs of any kind. In addition, the States
general fund will receive five percent (5%) of the net win, also without costs of any kind.
In
States that designate exclusively lottery proceeds to schools and their
teachers it is a welcome contribution. In other States it will close
budget gaps.
In
addition, throughout the United States there are five hundred (500) facilities
that simulcast live in-progress horse/dog races. At all facilities there
are several large TV screens that show the races from the different tracks with
general theater type seating for patrons and at private cubicles with
television sets outfitted with touch screens. The cubicles rent for
additional fees. After players open an account and select pin numbers,
they can watch each race offered on the different tracks on the TV and place
wagers on the different races by simply changing channels. The players may
also watch sporting events, the news, the Stock market reports, and in the near
future Roulabette, live, in-progress casino table games. The simulcast
centers have their own databases to manage the cash deposit and pay winnings on
the horse/dog races and will be able to manage the casino games, on the same
methods as the lotteries will manage Roulabette. With fifty to one
hundred (50-100) private TVs, available in simulcast centers, especially at
night, when fewer tracks are operating.
When
playing along with live table games from a highly regulated jurisdiction,
players will be assured that the game results are exactly what they see; and,
playing along with live casino table games such as Roulette, Craps and Baccarat
we believe will provide interaction, fun and far more excitement than playing
make believe animated (virtual) games. It is the next best thing, we believe,
to actually being at the table in the casino.
To
conduct the initial broadcast Kenilworth believes it will require ten million
dollars ($10,000,000) and there are no assurances we will ever be able to
obtain any of such money. At present, the Company does not have the funds
readily available but hopes to obtain same, from investors, as soon as
Kenilworth can commence broadcasting from a casino in the United States or
other casinos throughout the world.
In
prior years, Kenilworth completed a prototype system that allowed casino
patrons to play along with live in-progress casino table games only within the confines of a casino, via
closed circuit television. Also in 1990, we developed and delivered for the TAB
(Totalizator Agency Board) a quasy government agency of the State of Victoria,
Australia, a cashless slot machine system. Both systems required debit cards
and central mainframe computers to manage the wagers. By making use of the
expertise applied in the development of the aforementioned systems we plan to
develop a second-generation system that will manage the wagers by the
microprocessor installed in TV set-top boxes to receive satellite broadcasts.
This as planned would allow a player in an interactive manner, at a remote
location (outside the casino confines), to experience the actual play and
excitement at the casino table game and to make wagers on the various games,
without having to be physically present at the casino or casino table.
There are no assurances we will be able to successfully develop any system.
The
proposed Roulabette system also will provide Roulabette terminals that may
be placed in resorts, racetracks or other gathering places which consists of a
personal computer (PC) with two (2) monitors. One (1) monitor
will display the live in-progress casino table game play as well as
advertising. The second, which will be outfitted with a touch screen,
allows a player to place wagers directly over the games displayed on the first
monitor. It will also have a variable denomination bill acceptor and a
bar code ticket dispenser. Both monitors will be housed in an attractive
enclosure. The Roulabette terminal will
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be
the size of a typical low boy slot machine (desk top height). Each
terminal would be self-sufficient, manages wagers from $0.25 to $100.00 or the
equivalent in most any currency, and receives the table game play via simulcast
digital satellite TV transmissions (with dish antennas) or local digital cable
connection from legally operating casinos throughout the industrialized world.
Where
authorized, hotels, resorts clubs and other public gathering places will be
able to offer casino table game action in their establishments without
incurring the costs to operate a casino. The Roulabette terminal is expected
to offer an alternative to slot machine players. There are now believed to be
more than ten (10) million slot machines played throughout the world.
Kenilworth
will seek to promote to state lotteries and foreign jurisdictions, and other
state regulated entities, the ability to operate websites that will manage the
wagers. The program will ask state legislatures to amend their lottery
horse/dog racing and OTB legislation to include Roulabette wagering or
promulgate new legislation. There are no assurances that the necessary
approvals will be granted.
We
believe there are powerful arguments for state legislatures to amend their
Lottery Acts to include Play Along with Roulabette Live. Lottery revenue is
gradually decreasing in every state. Thirty-two (32) states and the District of
Columbia are pooling their lottery prizes with the PowerBall and Big Game
national lotteries. In most of these states, the state lottery finds it
difficult to obtain sufficient numbers of players to make up a minimum weekly
lottery prize of one million dollars ($1,000,000). In most states, the revenue
from lottery play benefits education. States need something more attractive to
restore revenue. With Play Along with Roulabette Live, there is interaction,
excitement and fun. All which we believe may be at much better odds than may be
offered by the lotteries. The lotteries can establish maximum wagers daily,
weekly and monthly limits, and monitor compulsive gamblers, and almost prevent
100% of the underaged from wagering on Roulabette by use of lottery terminals
to make deposits in cash to wager along.
Project
Roulabette is a concept intended to be built and there can be no assurances
that it will ever be built. The Patented microprocessors to be installed
in the TV set top boxes have not been designed. We have as at December 31,
2004, no agreement, customers except for proposals submitted for future
business and there can be no assurances that we will ever have same.
Features
Archive
This
following feature has been prepared by the groupe of Sorbonne Universitys DESS
Communication Audiovisuelle in Paris, France under the direction of
Julien Favre.
FOCUS
Casino table game broadcast live on TV, and interactive!
by Julien Favre, Chief Editor, iTVi
Subscribers to digital
satellite and cable programs will soon be able to bet as they watch live,
in-progress casino table game action, thanks to a new (a patented) system
developed by Kenilworth Systems Corporation that will involve States
lotteries...
Bet As You Watch Casino
The Bet As You Watch Casino
service will be deployed in conjunction with States Lotteries. Digital TV
subscribers will go to their local lottery agents and buy an admission ticket.
The ticket will allow them to access the interactive service.
The service will consist of
television simulcast broadcasts of live in-progress casino table game action.
Viewers will be able to bet exactly as they were in the casino playing at the
table.
The program will include
Hollywood entertainment and commentators (much like commentators of sporting
events) in order to assist players with the rules and strategies of the
games.
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Distribution
The first viewers to access
the service will probably be Asians. Kenilworth is presently actively exploring
casino broadcast sites to the Asian market, which has twice as many digital
satellite subscribers than the U.S. and U.K. combined.
A highly regulated initiative
Exclusively licensing
lotteries and their operators for the cash deposits required for wagering on
the programs will assist Kenilworth in its efforts to make sure the under aged
wont participate in the casino action. Lottery Terminal Operators must observe
the minimum age laws under criminal penalty.
A special effort will also
be made to identify compulsive gamblers. By monitoring all wagering action, the
system will be able to identify problematic gamblers and limit or shut down
their obsessive gambling habits.
Business model
Revenues from the admission
tickets will be split between Kenilworth and the State lotteries, OTB offices
and Race track owners.
Technology
Kenilworth has been granted
a U.S. Patent for the interactive television wagering system in June 2003,
which Patent has also been filed in forty-nine (49) countries including China
and Russia.
The Patent was assigned to
the Company when it was pending in 2000 by its inventor Herbert Lindo.
A second Patent which is
pending titled Method and Systems for Supplying Funds to a Terminal for Remote
Wagering which Patents the use of lottery terminals to manage Roulabette
wagers, also invented by Herbert Lindo and assigned to Kenilworth in 2003.
Kenilworths technology
involves a microprocessor that is incorporated in the TV set top box used by
the viewer to receive the digital satellite broadcasts. The microprocessor
manages the wagers.
Once
play along in homes and other public gathering places has started, we intend to
introduce casino games such as limited tournament play. For twenty-five
dollars ($25.00), players would be able to sign up with their respective
lottery operators and make up to thirty (30) wagers on any table game. The
individual that wins the most money during a specific tournament game period
may win as much as a million dollars ($1,000,000) in addition to their game
play win. As more interactive play along with casino games develops throughout
the world, the prizes can be increased and multiplied. The limited tournament
play games can be scheduled more than once a day, during specific hours of the
day, on specific days or nights of the week or once or twice a month. Actual
live experience will determine scheduling.
The
gaming industry is comprised primarily of five (5) service industries: (1) traditional
pari-mutuel wagering on horse and dog racing; (2) casino, Indian
Reservations, and riverboat gambling; (3) lotteries; (4) charitable
organization gambling (Bingo and Las Vegas Nights); and (5) Sports book.
Kenilworth
intends to operate primarily in the casino segment.
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KENILWORTH MANIFEST
(The
Manifest contains forward-looking statements which is
based upon our beliefs
and expectations of which there can be no assurances. See Risk Factors contained in Item 7)
Casino
gambling throughout the world, in every form, is on the increase. Most
jurisdictions need the revenue from gambling to balance their budgets or
increase their tax collection. Recently a newspaper report published in
the Wall Street Journal in March 2004 indicated that nineteen (19) states
are exploring to use gambling to raise funding needed for schools and other tax
relief.
Kenilworth
Systems Corporation expects to be able to provide, of which there can be no
assurances, simulcast gaming worldwide, giving everyone the opportunity of
playing a casino table game as if they were on the floor of a major
casinos. This project would provide all of the benefits and actual
excitement of playing in a casino as actually being at the casino.
Gaming enthusiasts will welcome the chance to place wagers on live in-progress
casino table games, whether they are at a local tavern, hotel, resort,
racetrack or other public gathering place, or at home. Kenilworth hopes
to be able to lead the industry in this arena, and its Patent and Patent
pending and its technology we believe would allow all of this to happen of
which there can be no assurances.
Our
proposed system has the potential to replace the existing one thousand (1,000)
foreign virtual gambling websites now in play, which garnished more than eight (8) billion
dollars from U.S. citizens in 2004 and is expected to increase to ten to twelve
(10-12) billion dollars in 2005, violating the 1961 Wire Act without paying any
U.S. taxes. We expect that players will prefer to Play Along with a Live
Casino Game versus a virtual make believe game, assisting the U.S. Attorney
Generals Office curbing illegal wagering in the United States by foreign
website operators that entice the public into wagering illegally.
Initially,
the proposed broadcasts will be of Roulette, Craps and Baccarat games.
We
may franchise the simulcast which may allow broadcasts to jurisdictions that
have approved gaming regulations.
Kenilworth
will offer to share a percentage of its worldwide net winnings with the state,
and other foreign jurisdictions, and the appropriate sponsoring casinos.
All
franchisees will be required to make the broadcasts available to digital
satellite and digital cable subscribers in their jurisdictions.
Kenilworth, as part of its marketing plan, will supply the appropriate TV,
cable, and interactive equipment (for betting terminals) to the franchisee.
The
various Regulatory Authorities will monitor all franchisees of the Kenilworth
System. A violation of their regulations by a franchisee may result in a
termination of the franchise.
For
Play Along With Roulabette, Live a franchisee will be required to provide
the at home player with the ability to deposit funds into their pre-paid
gambling accounts anytime, and on the spur of the moment.
We
hope to provide Licensed Betting Offices (bookmakers) in Europe, lottery
operators and OTB offices in the U.S., to manage the wagering accounts for at
home players. They will be able to accept last minute deposits. In
jurisdictions, which have lottery terminals in place, arrangements will be made
with the lottery to accept instant deposits and pay winners, using the lottery
terminals as the managing device.
A
player will simply mark a ticket with his/her Set Top Box and TV set
Identification Number, together with the amount to be deposited. From
that point on, the procedure is the same as selecting lottery numbers. A
winner can be paid using the reverse procedure.
Betting
offices and lottery terminal providers will either share in the net win managed
by each, or be paid a fixed commission for the amount deposited.
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Where
authorized, hotels, resorts, clubs, pubs, racetracks and other public gathering
places (the site) will be able to offer casino table game action in their
establishments without incurring casino operating costs. At our expense,
we will place Roulabette terminals and/or advanced PDAs at the site, enabling
wagering via the sites television sets.
It
may be that in order for hotels not to be required to obtain casino licenses to
offer Roulabette, they may have to limit the wagering to minimal amounts, so
as to qualify the games as entertainment for registered hotel guests.
Resort gaming we believe will establish a trend for the entire hotel industry.
In
the event a substantial amount is won by a player, Kenilworth will make payment
to the winner, via money wire transfer to the establishment within twenty-four
(24) hours. Kenilworth will establish a worldwide cash cage for winning
payments; or, a guarantee of payment by a well-recognized international bank.
In
August 2002, the Attorney General of the United States Office informed the
Nevada Gaming Control Board (Chairman and Commissioner Dennis Neilander, Esq.)
that Internet wagering is in violation of the 1961 Wire Act and, therefore,
cannot be permitted in the United States or transmitted from the United States
to other countries in the world. Previously, the Nevada State Legislature
had approved Internet gambling (February 2001) subject to the approval by
the U.S. Attorney Generals office. Nevada is the only state that
approved Internet gambling. Most states have outlawed Internet gambling.
Others have taken no action.
Our
proposed simulcast, via digital satellites, will not use a wire transmission
and communication facility. We are not within the constraints of the Internet
gambling interdiction. Our broadcast is similar to horseracing and
sporting events, where the simulcast is transmitted via satellites to the
various satellite dish subscribers, and then downloaded to cable
companies. Licensed Betting Offices, OTB offices and racetracks that
offer out of state horse racing would pick up the satellite broadcasts with
their own dish antennas. We believe broadcasting casino play action via
satellite transmission within state boundaries does not violate the Federal
1961 Wire Act. We further believe it will be permitted by the Interstate
Horseracing Act of 1978, USC 300, Et. Seq. There can be no assurances of
the foregoing.
In
prior years, the House of Representatives voted and passed the Internet
Gambling Enforcement Act, which bans credit and debit cards, checks, Western
Union type wire transmission and all other means of transferring money for use
in connection with Internet Wagering. Since the Senate did not approve a
companion Bill, the House and Senate must pass the legislation again in
2004/5. We believe there appears to be an anti-Internet gambling
sentiment in Congress and passage by both houses appears certain. Our
method is distinct, as players using our system, unlike the Internet, will be
subject to state casino regulations and will not be permitted to use credit or
debit cards. We believe there are no U.S. prohibitions to simulcast live action
of casino games as long as the wagers are placed and wagered within the state.
In
our proposed worldwide plans, wagers would be placed with Licensed Betting
Offices and lottery terminal operators. They would be only permitted to
accept cash at their offices or lottery terminal locations. Currently,
they would be obliged to make sure that no one underage places or collects
wagers on horseracing, sporting events or the lottery. The same would
apply when they accept wagers or pay winnings on our live simulcast broadcasts.
We believe, although there can be no assurances, that our system is simple and
almost 100% foolproof.
Initially
our proposed simulcast will be for entertainment purposes only and will start
with broadcast emanating from casinos in the United States and delivered to
foreign jurisdictions that permit our type of casino gambling. Our proposed
broadcasts may actually contain live entertainment produced in Hollywood.
Thirty (30) minutes of gambling, then thirty (30) minutes of entertainment, then
thirty (30) minutes of gambling and then back to entertainment. The
entertainment would be inserted the same as commercials are presented on TV
shows. Kenilworth has been able to engage CenterStaging Musical
Productions, Inc. of Burbank, California to provide the entertainment
content for Roulabette broadcasts.
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We
believe the proposed broadcast does not require any sophisticated electronics;
only the acceptance by the satellite and cable operators and the approval of
the Federal Communications Commission. We have been unofficially advised
that, for entertainment only (no wagering), our broadcasts will be classified
the same as any program now being broadcast via the networks. For
gambling, we will require an FCC license, which we would have to obtain
(simulcasting of horse racing requires an FCC license).
LOGICAL
QUESTIONS:
(The following is a series
of some questions, and what we believe,
without assurances, are our answers to them.)
(1.) Why arent major casinos in
Nevada and Atlantic City that have substantial resources, and the casino table
games, competing with us?
The
answer is simple. They are casino operators. If they, even by
accident, have a minor playing along with their broadcasts, or commit any other
violation, they could lose their Nevada or Atlantic City and other state Casino
or foreign licenses. Establishing a subsidiary for their transmissions
does not absolve them from the violation. Kenilworth is not a licensed casino operator.
Kenilworth holds the U.S. Patents for remote casino wagering and depositing
cash funds to and they would only be able to operate under our license.
Sharing profits with non-licensees is a violation of the Nevada Gaming Control
Act.
Further,
if we ever commence broadcasting from Las Vegas or Atlantic City, we plan to
broadcast from casinos in rotation, in order that each casino will have the
opportunity, on certain days, to broadcast during prime time. When we
manage the broadcast in their casino, we will make use of the same crew in the
communication room (4 technicians, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week).
We
believe that casino centers would fare better in accepting a percentage of our
net win, which they would receive without any operating costs.
Net
win is determined before deduction of expenses. Its a term used to
collect taxes on gambling revenue (table drop) before operating expenses.
In Europe, and now in some states in the U.S., this tax amounts to an average
of twenty percent (20%), with minimum annual taxes of up to one hundred million
dollars ($100,000,000).
We
propose to offer a percentage of our net win to any state. On a worldwide
basis revenue could reach, in the not too distant future, in the five hundred
billion dollar range ($500 billion). That could earn billions of dollars
annually to participating jurisdictions. Law enforcement agencies
estimate that Americans wagered $380 billion in 2001 on sporting events (mostly
illegally). Our proposed system can be regulated and controlled (unlike
Internet sites).
(2.) Why wouldnt the U.S.
Congress also prevent simulcasting of live casino table games, like it has with
Internet gambling?
The
Interstate Horse Racing Act of 1978 permits simulcasts of races via satellite
transmission between states, which are then downloaded to cable systems.
Horse and sporting club owners are traditional and substantial contributors to
House and Senate campaigns. It is big business that we believe would have
to be abolished if our proposed simulcasts are outlawed. The probability
of its abolition is remote.
(3.) What will happen if
non-casino or casino operators attempt to compete with us?
If
they do, they run the risk of an injunction and incurring triple damages.
The U.S. Patent titled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE ROULETTE AND OTHER GAME
PLAY USING GAME
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TABLE
AT A CASINO for remote live in-progress casino play was issued on June 10,
2003 to Kenilworth and has been filed for approval in forty-nine (49) industrialized
countries including Russia and China.
(4.) Will there be opposition by
Nevada casino operators?
The
past has proven to the Nevada casino industry that as more casinos are built in
the United States (we believe there are now more than nine hundred [900]
casinos outside of Nevada), more visitors come to Nevada. Our worldwide
broadcasts would substantially enhance the overall demand to visit Las Vegas or
any other state or jurisdiction that permits our broadcasts, and to other
casinos from which we will broadcast.
SUMMARY:
(1.) Kenilworths business presently is solely in
the planning stage. We plan to engage in the development, manufacturing,
marketing of an operation entitled Roulabette. Roulabette would allow casino
patrons and other players to play along with live in-progress casino table
games such as Roulette, Craps and Baccarat and more via digital satellite and
digital cable television broadcasts (simulcasts) emanating from strictly
regulated casinos located in the United States and other locations around the
world, to self-sufficient computer terminals dubbed Roulabette and digital
satellite and cable TV set top boxes. The Roulabette terminal is a proposal
intended to be built and there can be no assurances that it will ever be
built. The microprocessors to be installed in the TV set top boxes have
not been designed. We have as at December 31, 2004, no agreements,
customers or proposals for any future business and there can be no assurances
that we will ever have same. Reference is
also made to each of the Risk Factors that are set forth in Item 7.
(2.) Our Roulabette terminals, wherever they
would be placed in bars, resorts, hotels, racetracks, etc. will only be leased
to the operators by the leasing company, which we will engage for that
purpose. If a terminal cannot meet the minimum revenue necessary to pay
the monthly leasing charges, it will be moved to another location. By
placing Roulabette terminals at horse race tracks, which also offer slot
machines, we will be transforming them into complete casinos, without the
inherent start up and operating costs.
(3.) We believe the thousand virtual casino
websites via the Internet obtain sixty percent (60%) of their annual revenue
from customers in the U.S.
Although
Internet gambling is outlawed, we believe it is presently not very well
enforced by the U.S. Justice Department. Much of the opposition in
Congress against Internet gambling stems from the fact that the websites are
not legitimate, and may even be used for money laundering. Further, the
websites do not effectively prevent minors and underage college students from
wagering. Approximately one hundred (100) entities control the thousand
websites. When one site experiences losses, it is shut down and another site is
created. We expect that a majority of these sites will shut down because
of our simulcasts, thus directly reducing the number of sites, which need to be
policed.
Simulcast
broadcasts of digital satellite and digital cable transmissions around the
world must meet, and will be supervised by, the regulations by the gaming
authorities of the broadcasting casino and the jurisdiction, which receives the
broadcast. We believe the supervision will not be difficult to enforce,
because all simulcast wagering is cash only, from regulated, supervised
betting sites. There are no wire money transfers with banks and no credit
or debit cards permitted. We believe this fact should ease any opposition
from concerned citizens and anti-gambling groups, as regulation and enforcement
responsibility will be vested in each individual state (or foreign jurisdiction).
We
believe Kenilworth was the first to use color personal computers (PCs) to
replace electromechanical slot machines (1988). We provided the software
for the first Tabaret located at the Menzie at the Rialto in Melbourne,
Australia, which opened in November 1990. This consisted of cashless, variable
denomination and multiple game virtual PATs (Player Activated Terminals).
Prior thereto Kenilworth sponsored,
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with
the assistance of three Nevada casino operators, legislation to permit cashless
wagering in the state of Nevada. The legislation, which is in the form of
an amendment to existing casino control statutes, permits the use of account
cards (debit cards) and was signed into law by Governor Richard H. Bryan on June 13,
1985.
Kenilworth
has been a publicly traded Company since 1968. Prior to commencing its
endeavors into its proposed business in 1988, it provided security systems to
Nuclear Electric Generating Plants in the U.S. and foreign countries, as well
as time/attendance systems at a major department store chain.
MARKETING
STRATEGY/SALES PLAN
Our
marketing strategy consists of developing the Roulabette terminal and the
Roulabette broadcasts. We estimate at this time, that we will need at least
approximately ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for promoting the Roulabette
concept. We do not have this money nor do we have any agreements or
understanding to procure this money. We may never get this money. If we do
obtain this money, it may not be sufficient. Further, should such monies be
available it may not be available on terms satisfactory to Kenilworth or it may
be available on such terms that substantially dilute the interest of existing
shareholders. If we obtain this money, we will need substantial additional
funds for the proposed marketing plan and there can be no assurances that such
funds will ever be available to allow Kenilworth to engage in business on a
profitable basis.
At
the present time, we do not have any technically oriented employees who will be
able to develop Roulabette. It will be necessary for us to obtain personnel
qualified and with the expertise to develop Roulabette. We would require six (6) additional
employees and several consultants and there can be no assurances of our being
able to obtain any necessary personnel. There can be no assurances of the
availability of any such employees and consultants. The Company will
outsource the development of Roulabette and the microprocessors for the TV set
top boxes.
In
the United States Kenilworth hopes to refrain from using the Worldwide Web
(WWW) Internet to manage wagers from individuals outside of the casino
confines. Legislators have voiced strong objections to having their
constituents gamble one-on-one against computers located in Europe, Russia and
on Caribbean islands, totally unregulated. In Roulabette, the play-along
broadcast emanates from casinos that are regulated by strict and comprehensive rules and
state and jurisdiction regulations, enforced by gaming control regulators and
everybody plays along with the same live table game. There is a world of
difference between playing in a virtual make believe casino compared with an
actual casino.
For
the reasons stated, Kenilworth will ask state lotteries, Off-Track Betting
(OTB) corporations, pari-mutuel race tracks, and other state and federal
regulated agencies to manage the wagers from individuals playing along on their
PCs and their television sets using interactive TV set top boxes that convert
regular television sets into minicomputers within their state or jurisdiction.
There can be no assurances that we will be able to obtain any arrangement with
any of these entities or that they would be on suitable terms.
The
individuals would have to pre-deposit funds into an account with the wager
management company and then place wagers with their credit balance. The wagers
and running balances will be transmitted to the Roulabette players PC and/or
television sets with telephone lines not crossing any state lines, similar in
principle to telephone accounts wagering offered by the New York State
Off-Track Betting Corporation and the state of Nevada casino sports book and
recently with remote purchase of lottery tickets in many states within the
United States.
After
we obtain permission to play Roulabette of which there can be no
assurances, in a given state and engages a wager management organization
in order to promote digital satellite and interactive television to the states
residents, Kenilworth would install the eighteen (18) inch dish antenna and
converter box required to receive digital TV programming and interactive TV at
its own cost, if the subscriber opens a Roulabette wagering account for two
hundred dollars ($200). In addition, Kenilworth would pay the monthly
subscription fees to view all digital TV programming offered and the Internet
service provider
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(ISP)
subscription fee if the customer wagers at least one hundred twenty dollars
($120) each monthwin, lose, or drawmakes no difference.
In
states with approved lottery and/or other gambling legislation, we plan to
introduce Roulabette terminals to hotels, clubs (similar to card clubs in
California) and resorts, to provide upscale gathering places for tourists and
local residents. Charitable organizations that are permitted to conduct Nevada
Nights and Bingo games may wish to offer Roulabette gaming on a more
permanent basis. To receive the broadcast signal, all that would be required is
an eighteen (18) inch dish TV antenna and distribution equipment. The
Roulabette terminals are intended to be self-sufficient and accept dollar
bills (or script, to control the amount an individual is |