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Posted At : May 6, 2009 10:29 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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Given their tightly held scruples about gambling, period, I figured that there was no way on God's green earth that Florida's Republican-dominated House would agree to lowering the gambling age (at least for slots) to 18. That looked, at first blush, like a deliberately inflammatory proposal, a star atop the state Senate's Christmas tree of gaming-industry concession and the first thing to go during negotiations.
Ha! I repeat: HA! House members are still dead-set against letting people in Tampa play blackjack, but lowering the gambling age to 18 has passed without a murmur, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Even the House has come round to granting the Seminole Tribe some tables (but only blackjack), while the Senate counterproposes a two-tier system whereby half the Seminole casinos get the full monty and half get none, just slots. As with poker limits, it's not a question of "Will they or won't they (get tables)?" Now it's, "How much?" Class II machines for parimutuels are off the table but state senators have come back with something even more contrived. It's enough to make your head spin.
No longer a Dream: June 1 has been set as the date for City of Dreams, the first megaresort built by Melco Crown Entertainment. Despite having two (eventually four) hotel towers, it will open with but 600 hotel rooms, potentially maxing out at 2,200 units. Hopefully, the initial business will give CEO Lawrence Ho something to crow about when he addresses G2E Asia later that month.
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