{"id":13273,"date":"2014-04-11T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2014-04-11T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:33:43","slug":"paint-them-black-new-ideas-for-atlantic-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/paint-them-black-new-ideas-for-atlantic-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint them black; New ideas for Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chips\"<\/a>\u201cFortunately for police, the chips floated.\u201d That was the undoing of casino cheat\u00a0Vuong Q. Truong<\/strong>, who tried to hide the better part of $150,000 worth of forged casino chips at the bottom of a lake. No go. The ongoing Truong saga is back in the newspapers after a Herndon<\/strong>, Virginia<\/strong> couple were charged with cheating<\/a> at Maryland Live (and possibly at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races<\/strong>). According to Cordish Gaming<\/strong>, both\u00a0Ngan S. Nguyen<\/strong> and Dung N. Vo<\/strong> took $1 Hollywood chips and repainted, so that the white chips would pass as black ones, raising their value to $100. The couple allegedly swapped fake chips for $625 in cash, over a 75-minute period. Considering the (failed) risk they ran, the duo may be wishing they’d tried to cash more chips, on the off change they’d get away with it.<\/p>\n

Penn National Gaming<\/strong>‘s overexposure to the St. Louis<\/strong> market is redounding to the detriment of its Alton Belle<\/em> riverboat. Business has been poor for some time, as in last month’s 16% decline. Now, Penn is closing one of the three gambling decks<\/a> Mondays-Thursdays. Penn parent GLPI<\/strong> isn’t helping by purchasing Casino Queen<\/em> in East St. Louis<\/strong>, although the new REIT structure at GLPI\/Penn will presumably make any divestitures unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Atlantic City<\/strong> continues to try and diversify its tourist message<\/a> under the Don Guardian<\/strong> (R) administration. The Atlantic City Alliance<\/strong> is hoping to lure more not-necessarily-gambling visits both through improved promotion of existing events (like the Atlantic City Airshow<\/strong>) and new ones, such as an al fresco<\/em> Blake Shelton<\/strong> concert and the Challenge Triathlon<\/strong>. Polls show the Boardwalk’s image to be improving: 54% of respondents would recommend Atlantic City to others (up from 37% in 2012) and 58% intend to visit themselves (also up from 37%). Perception of Atlantic City as “clean” was only 25% and as “safe” was 28%, but those numbers were in the teens back in ’12.<\/p>\n

Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> is getting on the “Do A.C.” bandwagon, adding charter air service<\/a> from the Montreal<\/strong> area. You’ll still have to drive (or be bused, it’s not clear which) an hour to Plattsburgh, N.Y<\/strong>. Once there, Republic Airways<\/strong> will fly you to Atlantic City. For upstate New Yorkers, it’s a way to visit a Caesars casino, since it’s highly unlikely that the toga troupe is going to chase any of the first round of casino licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFortunately for police, the chips floated.\u201d That was the undoing of casino cheat\u00a0Vuong Q. Truong, who tried to hide the better part of $150,000 worth of forged casino chips at the bottom of a lake. No go. The ongoing Truong … 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":[23,4,7,58,22,53,72,39,101,69,100,139],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273"}],"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=13273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13277,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions\/13277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}