{"id":23010,"date":"2018-12-03T08:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=23010"},"modified":"2018-12-05T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:22:11","slug":"case-bets-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking its own sweet time, <strong>Hard Rock Atlantic City<\/strong> will finally have a sports book in early 2019. <strong>Malta<\/strong>-based <strong>Gaming <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hard-rock-lobby-1-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hard-rock-lobby-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hard-rock-lobby-1-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/hard-rock-lobby-1.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Innovation Group<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressofatlanticcity.com\/pac\/hard-rock-to-open-sports-book-early-in\/article_fce0065a-f0d0-5eaf-9584-a5f6b696be60.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been tapped<\/a> to handle the nuts and bolts. The lack of sports betting in what should be a high-traffic casino might help to explain why Hard Rock hasn&#8217;t been able to break out of third place in <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>. Maybe the nearby <strong>Tropicana<\/strong> could offer a few helpful hints.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Centaur Gaming<\/strong> principals <strong>John Keeler<\/strong> and <strong>Rod Ratcliff<\/strong> didn&#8217;t stay out of the gambling business for long after <!--more--><strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> bought them out. They&#8217;re working to buy the two <strong>Majestic Star<\/strong> riverboats. Their plan is to move the license of one of them to another location in the state of <strong>Indiana<\/strong> and, has already been discussed here, relocate the other boat in <strong>Gary<\/strong>. We&#8217;ll follow this with interest.<\/p>\n<p>* Are you an opera lover who hopes to have a bit of a flutter after the curtain comes down. <strong>Tesuque Casino<\/strong>, newly open next door to <strong>Santa Fe Opera<\/strong>, is the place for you. It has 800 slots and 10 table games for operatic high rollers. Did you know that, in 19th century <strong>Italy<\/strong>, opera seasons were subsidized by the profits of the casino in the foyer? He who owned the gaming concession literally called the tune.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macau-casinos_1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macau-casinos_1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macau-casinos_1-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macau-casinos_1.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>* Day-trippers to <strong>Macao<\/strong> are being barred <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ggrasia.com\/guangdong-govt-halts-short-weekend-trips-via-hkzm-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from the new HKZM bridge<\/a> in favor of longer &#8220;quality trips.&#8221; The stated reason is to ease the burden on the infrastructure but it dovetails nicely with Macao&#8217;s desire to lengthen hotel stays, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>* Congratulations to <strong>Mark Birtha<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ggbnews.com\/article\/hard-rock-names-mark-birtha-to-head-northern-california-venture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newly elevated<\/a> from the presidency of <strong>Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park to<\/strong> that of in-progress, $440 million <strong>Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain<\/strong>, an obvious vote of confidence in Birtha&#8217;s abilities. We&#8217;ve interviewed him and the man is a class act. We wish him continued success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking its own sweet time, Hard Rock Atlantic City will finally have a sports book in early 2019. Malta-based Gaming Innovation Group has been tapped to handle the nuts and bolts. The lack of sports betting in what should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,244,34,229,165,140,68,62,191,253,243,19,100,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010"}],"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=23010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23025,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions\/23025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}