{"id":12385,"date":"2014-01-03T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2017-10-26T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:21:14","slug":"playing-with-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/playing-with-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064-300x219.gif\" alt=\"Pennsylvania 064\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064-300x219.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064-150x109.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pennsylvania-064.gif 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pennsylvania<\/strong> is already pretty maxed out on casino capacity. Now it&#8217;s going to cannibalize its gaming economy even further with small-stakes games in bars and comparable edifices. Slot routes aren&#8217;t on the table yet. The legal framework is described as &#8220;<em>Under the new law, any establishment with a retail alcoholic beverage license is eligible to apply for a gaming license, except for casinos, grocery stores, venues that hold professional sporting events and businesses with either a club and catering club license or an eating place retail dispenser license ..<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Hampshire<\/strong> lawmakers aren&#8217;t even waiting to <!--more-->institute casino gambling. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/home\/10044642-95\/nh-house-to-vote-on-electronic-keno-poker-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Electronic keno is on the docket<\/a> of the <strong>House Ways &amp; Means Committee<\/strong>. Ironically, the proceeds would be used to treat problem gambling. They would also make it legal to play poker in your own home, which is mighty big of them.<\/p>\n<p>Keno is also on the wish list for <strong>Deadwood<\/strong>, <strong>South Dakota<\/strong>, where competitive pressures from neighboring states are being felt. You can already play blackjack, poker and slots but the Deadwood casinos feel they need more. Play increased 309% when limited table gaming was introduced in 2009, runs the argument. <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidcityjournal.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial-deadwood-needs-to-be-competitive\/article_6a7aa953-1356-503b-a63f-6007b70b47d0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why not more now<\/a>? Why not indeed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania is already pretty maxed out on casino capacity. Now it&#8217;s going to cannibalize its gaming economy even further with small-stakes games in bars and comparable edifices. Slot routes aren&#8217;t on the table yet. The legal framework is described as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/playing-with-trouble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,163,69,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385"}],"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=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20432,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions\/20432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}