{"id":1559,"date":"2009-12-10T17:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T01:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2009-12-10T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T01:33:28","slug":"tamares-the-cant-do-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tamares-the-cant-do-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamares: the can&#8217;t-do spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown has quite enough problems without <strong>Tamares Group<\/strong>&#8216;s continued rubbishing of several former <strong>Jackie Gaughan<\/strong> casinos adding to the malaise. Now Tamares &#8212; or its casino-management sock puppet, <strong>BRH Gaming<\/strong> &#8212; has sent <em>LVA<\/em> the following, very depressing bulletin: &#8220;<em>The <strong>Plaza Hotel &amp; Casino<\/strong> downtown has closed the <strong>Omelet House<\/strong>, <strong>Aqua Pit<\/strong> and <strong>Aqua Lounge<\/strong>.\u00a0 Please update your listings if you have these venues included.\u00a0 Nothing is going to replace them at this time.\u00a0 Thanks<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1560\" title=\"plaza-pic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/plaza-pic.jpg\" alt=\"plaza-pic\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/plaza-pic.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/plaza-pic-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>&#8220;Nothing is going to replace them&#8221;? What a surprise. If Tamares is good at anything, it&#8217;s denuding casinos of their amenities are &#8220;replacing&#8221; them with a bare-bones experience (like the Plaza&#8217;s downsized buffet) that makes the early years of Midwest tribal gaming look downright palatial.<\/p>\n<p>Hey Tamares, you want to make Downtown a better place? Then invest a dime or two in your casinos &#8212; or bring in a good management team (<strong>Millennium Gaming<\/strong> and <strong>Golden Gaming<\/strong> spring to mind) and give them the wherewithal to make your grind joints competitive again. Because, as of right now, Downtown would be better off without you.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ice<\/em> is toast<\/strong>. Another <strong>Riviera<\/strong> show folds. Considering that, when <em>Ice<\/em> opened, I heard it compared (unfavorably) to a high school play, the real surprise is that it lasted as long as it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown has quite enough problems without Tamares Group&#8216;s continued rubbishing of several former Jackie Gaughan casinos adding to the malaise. Now Tamares &#8212; or its casino-management sock puppet, BRH Gaming &#8212; has sent LVA the following, very depressing bulletin: &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tamares-the-cant-do-spirit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,28,18,51,4,55,47,9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"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=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}