{"id":15830,"date":"2015-04-06T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=15830"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:43:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:43:45","slug":"disney-dives-into-gambling-death-at-m-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/disney-dives-into-gambling-death-at-m-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney dives into gambling; Death at M Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Steamboat<\/a>Gambling really is the all-American pastime now that Walt Disney Co<\/strong>. is buying a $250 million piece of for-money fantasy league DraftKings<\/strong>. The agreement commits Disney to buy $500 million<\/a> in advertising time and imagery on a variety of ESPN<\/strong> platforms. At present, the ESPN airwaves are awash with ads for FanDuel<\/strong>, featuring socially challenged males boasting of their fantasy-league prowess. (Do their imaginary girlfriends know they’re doing this?) FanDuel will get pushed back into the queue for airtime now that Disney has allied with DraftKings.<\/p>\n

I knew Steamboat Willie<\/strong> plied the rivers but I never thought of him as a high roller. As some of the major leagues rethink their stance on sports betting, Disney finds itself closer to casino gambling than ever before … and won’t that<\/em> be a tectonic shift in American culture? At any rate, the difference between real and fantasy sports betting has always struck me as a matter of sophistry, so maybe some straight talk will come out of Disney’s radical move.<\/p>\n

* Penn National Gaming<\/strong> unwittingly unleashed a monster when it gave John Noble<\/strong> free buffet admission for life at M Resort<\/strong>. How was it to know it had loosed a stalker<\/a> on its female employees? It remains to be seen if Penn could have done more to discourage Noble but, for the moment, there are a number of emotionally scarred people who were eyewitnesses to Noble’s Easter Sunday suicide<\/a> in the M buffet line and they have all our sympathies.<\/p>\n

* Knowing they’re dealing with a $2.3 billion-a-year industry<\/a>, Florida<\/strong>‘s state senators will ponder a bill to temporarily extend Seminole Tribe<\/strong> blackjack and other banked games for one more year, giving Gov. Rick Scott<\/strong> (R) and the Lege time to work out a long-term compact. As matters stand, Scott only has four weeks to get a compact signed and over to the state capital. Instead,\u00a0“We’re interested in having a discussion with the tribe in an environment where we do something that makes long-term sense for taxpayers and the tribe,” said\u00a0Regulated Industries Committee<\/strong> Chairman Rob Bradley<\/strong> (R). Over in the House, Rep. Dana Young<\/strong> (R) is convinced this new initiative won’t affect her omnibus. However, Young’s bill has a lot of moving parts — dog racing, racinos, poker rooms, megaresorts — so I wouldn’t rate its chance of passage highly this session.<\/p>\n

* In a word, “Ouch<\/a>!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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