If you simply must gamble at a Caesars Entertainment casino in Tunica, you’d better bring a boat. Photographer Trey Clark has surveyed the scene and it looks like the damage to Harrah’s Casino Tunica will be especially costly. There go those second-quarter numbers … glug, glug, glug. Insurance will ameliorate some of the costs over the long term but the immediate future (flooding + no casino revenue) looks grim.
P.S.: A reader asks if “acts of God” like this are covered under casinos’ insurance policies. A very good question! Now I’ll have to dig out an article I wrote on the subject back in 2002, when the industry was bedeviled by bad weather. If I’m never heard from again, it means I was crushed under a pile of old trade magazines.
If you’d like to wager on Donald Trump‘s sham presidential “campaign” and you like long odds Paddy Power is the place for you. It’s taking action on the 2012 presidential race and Trump is now a 33-to-1 shot, 
Aw, isn’t this great? After Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) made the ludicrous claim that Ohio voters didn’t know what they were getting into when they approved a casino initiative in 2008, his legislative allies are trying to up the ante. They wanted the state’s casinos 
“My strength has always been the economy and that’s what I’m best at.” — Donald Trump, to Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Laura Myers, whilst riding to half-finished 
If you’re a fan of Miami Vice, you’ve seen Dania Jai-alai in the credit sequence of every episode (and one or two actually used it as a location). Boyd’s partners in the venture were known to be chafing at the casino company’s inaction. Dania was purchased by Boyd in the wake of racino legalization in South Florida but when competitors like Isle of Capri Casinos encountered disappointing revenues, Boyd shelved its plans for the fronton. Those slots that Bill Boyd personally promised in 2006 never manifested themselves.
In his latest column, “Prohibition Is Not Regulation” (
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent fuckin’ alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing fuckin’ engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public shitheads than to private douchebags, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them, motherfuckers.” — George Washington‘s farewell address, reinterpreted 
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… by Chuck Monster, who’s learned that SBE Entertainment‘s deal with MGM Resorts International includes dumping the Club Sahara loyalty program database into the lion’s “
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As Yr. Humble Blogger opines in this week’s Las Vegas CityLife,