{"id":25218,"date":"2019-10-30T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=25218"},"modified":"2020-10-19T06:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:56:24","slug":"case-bets-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jottings<\/em>: <strong>Bart Blatstein<\/strong> wants to subdivide the <strong>Showboat<\/strong> lot into five parcels. The idea appears to be to build a casino where the volleyball court currently sits, making an end run around the gaming restriction placed on the property by former owner <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> &#8230; <strong>Yahoo Sports<\/strong> will be the platform of choice for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/sports\/yahoo-sports-betmgm-announce-sports-betting-partnership-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new joint venture<\/a> between <strong>Verizon<\/strong> and <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong>. Promised are &#8220;unique content <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MGM-Resorts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MGM-Resorts-1.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MGM-Resorts-1-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/>experiences and live events.&#8221; Note to Big Gaming: When it comes to sports betting, MGM is eating your lunch &#8230; <strong>The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas<\/strong>&#8216; whales-only, <strong>Daun Curry<\/strong>-designed villa is getting the casino some good press. <a href=\"https:\/\/video.cntraveler.com\/watch\/hotel-tours-ep-2-cosmopolitan-las-vegas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Take the tour<\/a> &#8230; Much-in-the-news Ukranian Prime Minister <strong>Vladimir Zelensky<\/strong> is lending his support to the idea of casinos in <strong>Crimea<\/strong>. He also might <!--more-->partner with Turkish despot\u00a0<strong>Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/strong> on an unspecified casino venture &#8230; \u00a0Who likes <strong>Monarch Casinos<\/strong>? <strong>Macquarie<\/strong>\u00a0analyst <strong>Chad Beynon<\/strong>, for one. He thinks it can overcome recent setbacks, especially if <strong>Colorado<\/strong> voters approve sports betting next week &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>John &#8220;Mattress Mack&#8221; McIngvale<\/strong> will have to wait another night to find out if his $4.5 million bet on the <strong>Houston Astros<\/strong> was prescient. The <strong>Washington Nationals<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/world-series-the-only-thing-left-for-astros-nationals-is-game-7-064548319.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled the fat from the fire<\/a> in Game 6 of the <strong>World Series<\/strong>, forcing a potentially dramatic Game 7.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fru8IkuDp_k\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward Norton<\/strong> &#8220;didn&#8217;t go full retard&#8221; in <em>Motherless Brooklyn<\/em>, short-listing him for <strong>Oscar<\/strong> contention. So far 2019 has been short on award-caliber movies other than <strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/em>. However, <strong>Terrence Malick<\/strong>, <strong>Clint Eastwood<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Todd Haynes<\/strong> have Oscar-bait movies coming out in December, so don&#8217;t place your wagers yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jottings: Bart Blatstein wants to subdivide the Showboat lot into five parcels. The idea appears to be to build a casino where the volleyball court currently sits, making an end run around the gaming restriction placed on the property by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-30\/\">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":[23,113,244,27,66,26,22,37,245,10,74,243,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218"}],"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=25218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28636,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions\/28636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}