{"id":21217,"date":"2018-02-20T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=21217"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T16:40:39","slug":"caesars-takes-the-lead-fortune-cup-comes-to-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/caesars-takes-the-lead-fortune-cup-comes-to-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesars takes the lead; Fortune Cup comes to Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of yet another senseless mass shooting, Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> is making guest security a priority (not to imply that it wasn’t earlier). From now on, Caesars security\u00a0personnel will be empowered<\/a> to enter guest rooms once every 24 hours, regardless. This \"\"kind of thing, had it been implemented at Mandalay Bay<\/strong>, could have caused the discovery of butcher Stephen Paddock<\/strong>‘s one-man arsenal before he went full-automatic on a Jason Aldean<\/strong> concert crowd. Caesars is also considering — and ought to — giving panic buttons to employees for situations in which they feel endangered. Think of what a few well-placed panic buttons might have prevented at Wynn Resorts<\/strong>. It’s not a Vegas-only policy but one that Caesars will implement globally. Similar policies have been adopted at other casino-resort companies but not always with this degree of stringency. (In some, a room can go two days without a mandatory check.) Culinary Union<\/strong> workers were originally to be tasked with combining housekeeping with security, but Caesars sensibly revised the policy when the Culinary balked.<\/p>\n

MGM Resorts International<\/strong>, of all companies, is still a laggard, allowing a 48-hour window between room checks. This is just too much and, after 10\/1, whatever happens here is going to have to include a heightened security presence. Talk about a “target-rich environment”! And it’s not just a Vegas thing. A sexual assault at Bally’s Atlantic City<\/strong>\u00a0increased pressure on the company, as did the meth-lab incident at Tropicana Entertainment<\/strong>‘s eponymous Atlantic City<\/strong> resort. Whatever the motivation, Caesars is doing the right thing and ought to be applauded.<\/p>\n

* VitalVegas<\/em> needs to send Tiny the Tumbleweed<\/strong><\/a> over to Resorts World Las Vegas<\/strong> \"\"to check out reports that construction has ground to a halt. Again. At its present pace, Resorts World will be beaten to the finish line by Wynn Paradise Park<\/strong>. Remember, the Genting Group<\/strong> megaresort was supposed to have been finished by now.<\/p>\n

* You’d think it would be easy enough to keep the Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong> apprised of hiring changes at your casino. That’s part of why human-resources departments exist. Well, the Skyline Casino<\/strong> either thought it was too special or was just too lazy<\/a> to keep its paperwork in order. That’ll cost the casino four grand (a drop in the bucket, really) plus some mandatory compliance training, which we think is the real punishment.<\/p>\n

* Derek Stevens<\/strong> continues to endear himself to gamblers. Having made a splash with Sigma Derby<\/strong>, he’s going to be complementing it<\/a> at The D<\/strong> with Fortune Cup<\/strong>, the newest emulation\/improvement upon Sigma Derby<\/em>. Its features include a nine-foot-wide racing oval and real-time video of the “race,” oalong with 10 positions per game. We hope it’ll be popular but not so much as to endanger Sigma Derby<\/em>‘s existence. (Stevens has the next-to-last Sigma Derby<\/em> game in Nevada<\/strong>.) As Stevens says, “Fortune Cup<\/em> is our way of paying homage to the games that made us fall in love with Las Vegas<\/strong> in the first place.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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