{"id":16661,"date":"2015-09-01T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T23:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16661"},"modified":"2019-07-13T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T18:17:07","slug":"turmoil-along-the-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/turmoil-along-the-boardwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Turmoil along the Boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cult figure Glenn Straub<\/strong> is back in the news again, if indirectly. Stockton University<\/strong> has received\u00a0Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez<\/strong>‘s blessing to sell the former Showboat<\/strong> and Mendez has \"Showboat_Atlantic_City\"<\/a>enjoined the obstreperous Straub from challenging the sale. Stockton is thereby closer to ending the nightmare that was its $18 million attempt to establish an Atlantic City<\/strong> campus. Straub’s consolation is that he gets his $26 million purchase back —\u00a0plus\u00a0interest. Anybody want an ex-casino where you can’t gamble anymore?<\/p>\n

In other Boardwalk news, the AFL-CIO<\/strong> has called for a boycott of Tropicana Atlantic City<\/strong>, which Carl Icahn<\/strong> owns, and Trump Taj Mahal<\/strong>, which he would like to. This is seen as a \"Icahn<\/a>harbinger of a strike at the Taj, as is Unite-Here<\/strong>‘s stockpiling of supplies for a long siege. Icahn has tried to make the case to the rank and file that Unite-Here leadership is the real adversary but, as workers who can’t afford Obamacare try to scrimp by without health insurance (stripped from them by Trump CEO Bob Griffin<\/strong>), it’s not proving to be a persuasive argument.<\/p>\n

Up at Borgata<\/strong>, poker pro Phil Ivey<\/strong> claims that Boyd Gaming<\/strong> used scantily clad waitresses and bottomless glasses of booze to distract him<\/a> while he played. Sexy ‘Borgata Babe’ waitresses and free drinks in a casino? I’m shocked<\/em>, absolutely shocked. There was some consolation for Ivey. “I got quite a few [phone] numbers,” he brags.<\/p>\n

* If the casino industry can convert social gamers<\/a> into slot players it will have hit the demographic jackpot.<\/p>\n

* If you’ve got $14.5 million to spare (Phil Ivey, take note), you might be able to spring for casino developer Gary Primm<\/strong>‘s suburban Las Vegas<\/strong> mansion. Its myriad amenities<\/a> include an underground shooting gallery, a driving range and a gas station, making the estate a world unto itself. We’d expect no less from the auteur of New York-New York<\/strong> and Primm Valley Resorts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

* It’s always two steps forward, one step back for the Mashpee Wampanoags<\/strong>. The Bureau of Indian Affairs<\/strong> is rewording a previous announcement<\/a>, saying that the BIA was taking comments on the Massachusetts<\/strong> tribe’s\u00a0“request to issue a reservation proclamation …\u00a0Issuance of a reservation proclamation is a separate and distinct action from acquiring land in trust.\u201d So the Mashpee Wamps are only slightly closer to getting a casino (below<\/em>) in Taunton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition to the tribe, Rush Street Gaming<\/strong> is on pins and \"Mashpee-rendering-MS.jpg\"<\/a>needles, as its Brockton casino proposal is hostage to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission<\/strong>‘s desire to see how the situation in Taunton plays out. The MGC’s hesitation has to do with the magic number of 17: That’s how many miles separate Brockton from Taunton and it’s also the percentage of gaming revenue that the Wampanoags would have to pay the state … unless there’s another casino in Region C, in which case they pay nothing. Events, agonizingly slow though they are, are turning in the tribe’s favor, undoubtedly much to Rush Street’s chagrin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cult figure Glenn Straub is back in the news again, if indirectly. Stockton University has received\u00a0Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez‘s blessing to sell the former Showboat and Mendez has enjoined the obstreperous Straub from challenging the sale. Stockton is thereby … 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":[23,60,82,185,140,53,112,91,25,8,20,21,169,196],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661"}],"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=16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24521,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions\/24521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}