When I visited Detroit, the official position of MGM Grand Detroit was that its vacated temporary casino (formerly an IRS building) could be re-activated as a casino, if MGM so chose. I guess they chose otherwise. Yes, this roulette table could yours for a mere thousand clams. Come on down!
Bankruptcy in Bossier City. There’s been a malaise in that Louisiana market ever since Class III gaming started to make inroads in Oklahoma, threatening Bossier City‘s key feeder markets, like Dallas-Fort Worth. Now an ex-Isle of Capri riverboat casino has hit a financial shoal.
Blackballed on the Strip? Or maybe you’re just having a hard time breaking in? No matter. The Seminoles need a few good dealers (3,650, to be precise) and they’re going at least as far as Atlantic City to find them, maybe even to Las Vegas, they say. (I mean, we’ve only got, what, six Columbia Sussex properties here? The Seminoles will have those 3,650 dealers in nothing flat.)
But if you’re really hard up for comedians (and maybe too cheap to buy an ad), you can always put your phone number in a Las Vegas Review-Journal and risk being inundated by every bad standup comedian with an Internet connection, a mouse and a telephone. Heck, Fitzgerald‘s did. That’s 702/388-2400 and ask for Gene Sagas. I’ll be expecting S&G‘s usual 10% commission if you get the gig, OK?
