{"id":10810,"date":"2013-05-14T09:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2013-05-14T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T18:07:14","slug":"big-vote-in-beantown-penn-national-short-sheets-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/big-vote-in-beantown-penn-national-short-sheets-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Big vote in Beantown?; Penn National short-sheets Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"That’s what it could come to in Boston<\/strong>, if mayoral candidate — and current Suffolk County<\/strong> D.A. — Daniel Conley<\/strong> gets his wish. Rather than simply letting East Boston vote up or down on Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>‘s proposed conversion of Suffolk Downs<\/strong> into a $1 billion racino, Conley would require it to get both citywide and<\/em> local approval at the ballot box. It’s a position that enjoys two-thirds support amid the electorate<\/a>, and two of Conley’s rival candidates quickly fell in line behind him. However, most of the opposing candidates still prefer keeping the vote local. Caesars’ chances look better that way: Conley calls himself a “casino agnostic” and early reading of the tea leaves suggests most Bostonians are, to0.<\/p>\n

Further to the west, a pair of companies who plan to build amenities that are complementary to — but not redundant with — a Mohegan Sun<\/strong> casino in Palmer<\/strong> have released their designs<\/a>. Our initial response can be boiled down to one word: tacky.<\/p>\n

\"\"It only took two<\/strong> weeks for Station Casinos<\/strong>‘ venture into Internet<\/strong> gambling to get into trouble<\/a>. (Why am I not surprised?) Station’s Ultimate Poker<\/strong> offshoot was doing business with Iovation<\/strong>, a player in the epic 2008 Ultimate Bet<\/strong> scandal — you know, the one where “hole cards” were being electronically spied upon? Online poker players, the true police of the industry, spotted the Station\/Iovation tie-in and blew the whistle. So now the Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong> says it will look into what Station knew and when it knew it.<\/p>\n

For a compan<\/strong>y that wants to expand along the East Coast, Penn National Gaming<\/strong> sure \"\"has an aptitude for sticking its thumb in regulators’ and civic officials’ eyes. The Washington Post<\/em> reports that Penn tried to play Prince George’s County<\/strong> executives for dupes. While both MGM Resorts International<\/strong> and Greenwood Racing<\/strong> paid licensing fees proportional to the volume of slot machines they intend to have, Penn tried to have it both ways<\/a>, paying for only 500 slots while intending to field 3,000. Although state gaming commission chairman Daniel Fry<\/strong> is adamant that the licensing fees are refundable, Penn is whining about a “gray area” that it claims could cost it most of the $18 million it is required to pay.<\/p>\n

Penn would put 3K slots and 140 tables into Rosecroft Raceway<\/strong>. By contrast, MGM plans 3,600 slots and 140 tables for National Harbor<\/strong> ($21.6 million upfront) and Greenwood is thinking really big: 4,750 slots and 170 tables ($28.5 million). If Penn doesn’t want to spend money in the Free State, maybe it shouldn’t have blown $40 million trying to sandbag the rest of the industry in the last election cycle. Its chances of getting that racino license aren’t nil, I’d say. They’re subzero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s what it could come to in Boston, if mayoral candidate — and current Suffolk County D.A. — Daniel Conley gets his wish. Rather than simply letting East Boston vote up or down on Caesars Entertainment‘s proposed conversion of Suffolk … 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":[65,28,26,7,37,72,112,11,69,33,111,25,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810"}],"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=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10814,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/10814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}