{"id":16197,"date":"2015-06-10T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16197"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T00:10:54","slug":"case-bets-club-fortune-nfl-pokerstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-club-fortune-nfl-pokerstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Club Fortune, NFL, PokerStars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oystXLuzxEY\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Loose sluts!&#8221;, cries the grandmotherly-looking woman at 00:13 in this <strong>Club Fortune Casino<\/strong> commercial (so bad it never gets old). Those days may soon be over once <strong>Nevada Gold<\/strong>&#8216;s purchase of Club Fortune closes. Having obtained the property for a relatively cheap $14 million, Nevada Gold is going to <!--more-->spend big on converting a locals casino into a resort, complete with a brand-new, 289-room hotel. The plans also call for, among other things, more than tripling the size of the casino floor and &#8220;a 150-unit senior condo building and a 140-unit assisted living facility with a medical wellness wing.&#8221; We swear <a href=\"http:\/\/vegas.eater.com\/2015\/6\/9\/8753331\/hendersons-club-fortune-casino-wants-to-be-a-resort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we&#8217;re not making this up<\/a>. It&#8217;s long been ironic that Nevada Gold had no Silver State presence, but it&#8217;s obviously determined to make its first Nevada casino a major statement.<\/p>\n<p>* While the idea of a fantasy-sports convention probably conjures the image of a sea of nerds, a <strong>Tony Romo<\/strong>-organized event at the <strong>Sands Expo Center<\/strong> was set to feature some of the <strong>NFL<\/strong>&#8216;s marquee names, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NFL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NFL.jpg\" alt=\"NFL\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NFL.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NFL-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>among &#8220;more than 100 players and media personalities.&#8221; But the NFL, which regards casinos as a vampire does a crucifix, found the separation of the Expo Center from the <strong>Venetian<\/strong> and <strong>Palazzo<\/strong> to be a distinction without a difference and ordered the event scrubbed. Renegade free agent <strong>Brandon Stokley<\/strong>&#8216;s rival fantasy-sports convention, slated for <strong>Wynncore<\/strong> next month, remains a &#8216;go.&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>American Gaming Association<\/strong> did not take this snub lying down. Calling the NFL&#8217;s outlook on the gaming industry anachronistic, AGA spokeswoman <strong>Sara Rayme<\/strong> said, &#8220;27 NFL teams (all but 5) are located in markets with legal, regulated casinos.\u00a0Many of the stadiums are within close proximity to the casinos themselves &#8230;\u00a0It is only a matter of time before such thinking in organizations like the NFL evolves and acknowledges the reality that gaming, like professional sports, is a form of mainstream entertainment.\u201d We hope so, although we&#8217;re not going to stay up late waiting for Roger Goodell to get religion.<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of getting religion, <strong>PokerStars<\/strong>&#8216; licensing remains tied up in <strong>New Jersey<\/strong> even though the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/82f552aa714e4b228a808c1fba8c9c17\/NJ--Internet-Gambling-NJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">is offering amnesty<\/a> to any company that acted as a go-between for Garden State residents and illegal Internet casinos. Deputy Director of Gaming Enforcement <strong>George Rover<\/strong> says that, absent\u00a0compliance,\u00a0&#8220;any effort to become licensed in New Jersey will be forever gone&#8221; and the taint will probably extend to other jurisdictions. Interestingly, Rover explicitly excluded PokerStars from his fatwa. If the company&#8217;s in the clear then what&#8217;s the hold-up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Loose sluts!&#8221;, cries the grandmotherly-looking woman at 00:13 in this Club Fortune Casino commercial (so bad it never gets old). Those days may soon be over once Nevada Gold&#8216;s purchase of Club Fortune closes. Having obtained the property for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-club-fortune-nfl-pokerstars\/\">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":[88,174,37,178,25,12,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197"}],"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=16197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32873,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions\/32873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}