{"id":30967,"date":"2022-04-02T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=30967"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:19:43","slug":"philadelphia-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/philadelphia-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Philadelphia-Live-high-limit-slots-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30968\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cordish Gaming<\/strong>, we have a problem. Not only does it turn out to have been a bad idea to site a casino in <strong>Philadelphia<\/strong>&#8216;s stadium district, it was an even worse mistake by state regulators to saturate the greater City of Brotherly Love area with a <em>fifth<\/em> casino. <strong>Philadelphia Live<\/strong>&#8216;s best days came at the beginning, as the inevitable curiosity factor drove business, mainly at the expense of <strong>Rivers Philadelphia<\/strong>. But Cordish has been steadily losing market share ever since and in February came in fourth in the market, behind even <strong>Harrah&#8217;s Philadelphia<\/strong>, hardly the ritziest casino in town (although the closest to a prison, we&#8217;ll give you that). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Last Tuesday, our East Coast correspondent paid Live a visit and found it pretty darn dead. During a three-hour stint at a slot tournament, he saw 200 people, tops. &#8220;As you can see from the photo last night, Cordish&#8217;s marketing people know how to keep a casino nearly empty,&#8221; he wrote us. Not even a &#8216;Taco Tuesday&#8217; promo could bring out the customers in force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Philadelphia-Live-slot-tournament-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30969\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Above, what passed for a slot tourney at Philadelphia Live. Below, the blackjack area speaks for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Philadelphia-Live-blackjack-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30970\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cordish Gaming, we have a problem. Not only does it turn out to have been a bad idea to site a casino in Philadelphia&#8216;s stadium district, it was an even worse mistake by state regulators to saturate the greater City of Brotherly Love area with a fifth casino. Philadelphia Live&#8216;s best days came at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}