{"id":224,"date":"2009-07-20T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/7\/20\/Facts-are-stubborn-things"},"modified":"2009-07-20T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:14:00","slug":"facts-are-stubborn-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/facts-are-stubborn-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts are stubborn things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big thumbs-up to a casino company in <strong>Central City<\/strong>, Colo., for making its case to players not with vague claims but quantifiable facts. <strong><font size=\"3\">Famous Bonanza &amp; Easy Street Casinos<\/font><\/strong> shared with its patrons <strong>Colorado Division of Gaming Statistics<\/strong> data that showed its dollar- and penny-slot holds were 3% and 7.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The averages for <strong>Black Hawk<\/strong>, Colo., casinos in those denoms are 5.27% and 9.8%. Famous Bonanza is comfortably below the Central City averages of 3.8% and 9.5%, too. Anybody in Vegas or Atlantic City want to try this marketing gambit? It sounds like a winner to us. (Thank you to <strong>Raving Consulting<\/strong> for spreading the news about this splendid idea.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Without referencing it directly<\/strong> <em>CityLife<\/em> Editor <strong>Steve Sebelius<\/strong> makes it clear why <strong>Mike Ensign<\/strong>&apos;s $96,000 hush-money payment to <strong>Doug Hampton<\/strong> and his two-timing wife <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lasvegascitylife.com\/various-things-and-stuff\/2009\/07\/19\/one-thing-is-certain\">could write <em>finis<\/em><\/a> to any further aspirations the elder Ensign has in the casino industry. Just try explaining this mess to the <strong>Kansas Lottery<\/strong>&apos;s casino commission and making it sound like a mere bagatelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big thumbs-up to a casino company in Central City, Colo., for making its case to players not with vague claims but quantifiable facts. Famous Bonanza &amp; Easy Street Casinos shared with its patrons Colorado Division of Gaming Statistics data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/facts-are-stubborn-things\/\">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":[27,28,45,53,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}