{"id":10433,"date":"2013-02-01T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10433"},"modified":"2022-10-19T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:31:09","slug":"best-casino-ad-ever-not-another-pinnacle-boo-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/best-casino-ad-ever-not-another-pinnacle-boo-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Casino Ad Ever (Not!); Another Pinnacle boo-boo"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you live in the greater Las Vegas<\/strong> metropolitan area, you’ve probably had a stiff dose of this ad, which is in heavy rotation during the morning news shows. I don’t know whether to be impressed that a grind joint like Club Fortune Casino<\/strong><\/a> has a TV-advertising budget or nonplussed by the marketing message. I mean, there’s nothing to differentiate oneself like emphasizing that you’ve got the exact same product<\/em> as everybody else. Table games? In Vegas<\/em>?? Shocking!!! My life suddenly feels very incomplete.<\/p>\n

At least the Club Fortune people<\/strong> didn’t make the mistake Pinnacle Entertainment<\/strong> did: Pissing off the Black Keys<\/strong> with a soundalike version of “Howlin’ for You.” Since the Black Keys have taken on the likes of Home Depot<\/strong> and prevailed, you have to wonder why Pinnacle thought the risk it rather brazenly ran<\/a> was worthwhile. When the ads ran, last September, the Akron<\/strong> band was already<\/em> sharpening its knives<\/a> on Pizza Hut<\/strong>, a much bigger foe than Pinnacle (which a former editor of mine always referred to as “Pinochle”). I foresee the words “undisclosed settlement” looming large in PNK’s next quarterly filing or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you live in the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area, you’ve probably had a stiff dose of this ad, which is in heavy rotation during the morning news shows. I don’t know whether to be impressed that a grind joint … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,4,53,30,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31760,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions\/31760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}