{"id":16843,"date":"2015-09-25T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:37:40","slug":"wrist-slaps-in-new-jersey-china-tries-to-sever-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wrist-slaps-in-new-jersey-china-tries-to-sever-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrist-slaps in New Jersey; China tries to sever chains"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the good news. New Jersey<\/strong>‘s geolocation and age-verification technology is catching underage gamblers. The bad \"tropicana_havana\"<\/a>news is that wannabe adolescent Phil Iveys are getting onto casino Internet<\/strong> sites and wagering. So are self-excluded players. The\u00a0New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement<\/strong> filed 117 counts of such violations, including 66 juveniles playing on the Borgata<\/strong> Web site. The casinos don’t have to worry about their pocketbooks: The DGE slapped their wrists with a collective $14,400 in fines ($5,000 for Borgata, $2,200 for Tropicana Atlantic City<\/strong> and $7,200 for Resorts Atlantic City<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

“The gambling enforcement division said the violations were due to a computer programming error,” reported the Charlotte Observer<\/em>. Still, let’s hope that Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> doesn’t hear about this and make hay of it.<\/p>\n

* In order to afford to repair “structurally deficient” bridges, Mississippi<\/strong>‘s looking to its gaming industry for money. Or, more \"Mississippi_Capitol_Building\"<\/a>accurately, it’s issuing $200 million in bonds<\/a> collateralized by casino taxes. Despite gambling revenue being at a 17-year low, there’s not much for the state to worry about: It’s sitting on 10 times that amount of casino-derived revenue. Last year, for example, gambling yielded $164 million in tax dollars. Would that more states and municipalities were being this proactive with their gaming revenue, instead of using to plug budget shortfalls and such.<\/p>\n

* If you’re old enough to vote in Maryland<\/strong>, you’re now also old enough<\/a> to work in a casino. But you still can’t drink in one. Bummer.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Chinese officials, concerned about VIP play moving offshore, have initiated “Operation Chain Break<\/a>.” It’s intended to crack down \"china\"<\/a>junketeers who are steering ‘whales’ to South Korea<\/strong>, the Philippines<\/strong>, Australia<\/strong>, etc. It’s not just Chinese nationals who are at peril of running afoul of the government. Reads one news report, “During the weekend police in Shanghai<\/strong>, Jiangsu<\/strong>, Beijing<\/strong>, and Hebei<\/strong> targeted South Korean agents who were scouting VIP gamblers in China<\/strong>.” Meanwhile in the Philippines, PAGCOR<\/strong> Chairman\u00a0Cristino Naguiat<\/strong> remains upbeat<\/a>, even though the markets forces haven’t been performing according to plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, the good news. New Jersey‘s geolocation and age-verification technology is catching underage gamblers. The bad news is that wannabe adolescent Phil Iveys are getting onto casino Internet sites and wagering. So are self-excluded players. The\u00a0New Jersey Division of Gaming … 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":[23,103,60,22,37,72,35,167,192,25,12,187,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843"}],"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=16843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16844,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions\/16844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}