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At a private game cafe, 'Lucky Spin', customers pay 150 pesos to buy a token that grants entry into a weekly wheel-spinning game. The wheel has 20 equal segments; one segment is the winning segment. After each weekly draw, the player whose token matches the winning segment receives 70% of the total entry fees collected that week; the owner keeps 30% as the operating fee. The cafe has no PAGCOR license or any other license. A raid interrupts the activity and the owner is charged with illegal gambling under P.D. No. 1602, as amended by R.A. No. 9287. (a) Is the owner liable for illegal gambling? Identify the controlling elements and apply them to these facts. (b) Are the players liable as co-offenders, accomplices, or mere participants? Distinguish. (c) How does R.A. No. 9287 affect the offense and its penalties in this scenario.