{"id":14903,"date":"2014-10-31T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14903"},"modified":"2014-10-31T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:33:07","slug":"friday-case-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/friday-case-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Case Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"

America<\/strong>‘s second-largest casino market, Pennsylvania<\/strong>, has truly hit the jackpot<\/a>, according to a new study by Oxford Economics<\/strong>. It addition to engendering\u00a018,000 direct-employment jobs, casinos have generated economic impact of\u00a0$6.2 billion and paid $2.4 billion in taxes, not to mention generating $1.7 billion in wages (some of which may be indirect). Gambling grossed $3.1 billion, while amenities yielded another $250 million.<\/p>\n

\"Geoff-Freeman\"<\/a>The 33,574 direct and indirect jobs are making the difference between 5.7% unemployment and 6.6% (theoretical). Casinos are also effectively providing tax relief of $488 per household for Pennsylvanians. American Gaming Association<\/strong> President Geoff Freeman<\/strong> was quick to tout the impressive numbers and appeal for tax relief. \u201cHow do we take 34,000 jobs and turn it into 50,000 jobs,” he asked. “How do we take $2.4 billion in tax payments\u00a0and turn it into $3-billion?\u00a0The policies developed around casino gaming were based on the perception that this was a monopoly, that there was easy money to be had.” Lower taxes, he argued, would encourage reinvestment, emulating Las Vegas<\/strong> and keeping competition from neighboring states at bay.<\/p>\n

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* Assuming it doesn’t give you an epileptic seizure, this frenetic blipvert for O’Shea’s Casino<\/strong> is one of the more memorable pieces of Las Vegas video advertising. (Unfortunately, the leprechaun is creepy rather than Peter Dinklage<\/strong>-handsome.)<\/p>\n

* Here’s an idea we hope doesn’t spread to the casino industry. Arizona<\/strong>‘s L’Auberge de Sedona<\/a><\/strong> indexes its resort fees to room rates<\/a>. So if you’re paying $125\/night, your fee is $12.50. At $250 a night, it becomes $25. And so on. The fee “covers tips excluding restaurant and bar servers and the spa attendants, as well as standard resort fee amenities such as internet service. There is a separate $15 nightly valet fee for guests parking at the resort.” I’ll leave you to decide whether that’s added value or not.<\/p>\n

* Our condolences go out to the family of Poker Night in America<\/strong> host Joe Sartori<\/strong>, the victim of inoperable stomach cancer. From hardscrabble origins<\/a>, Sartori rose to become the poker room manager of Palace Station<\/strong> and The Palms<\/strong> before TV called. The tributes are already rolling in<\/a> for a man who seems to have been a generous soul, willing to pitch in whenever he was needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America‘s second-largest casino market, Pennsylvania, has truly hit the jackpot, according to a new study by Oxford Economics. It addition to engendering\u00a018,000 direct-employment jobs, casinos have generated economic impact of\u00a0$6.2 billion and paid $2.4 billion in taxes, not to mention … 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":[109,14,7,95,57,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903"}],"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=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14905,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions\/14905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}