{"id":30967,"date":"2022-04-02T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=30967"},"modified":"2022-04-15T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:24:09","slug":"philadelphia-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/philadelphia-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cordish Gaming<\/strong>, we have a problem. Not only does it turn out to have been a bad idea to site a casino in Philadelphia<\/strong>‘s stadium district, it was an even worse mistake by state regulators to saturate the greater City of Brotherly Love area with a fifth<\/em> casino. Philadelphia Live<\/strong>‘s best days came at the beginning, as the inevitable curiosity factor drove business, mainly at the expense of Rivers Philadelphia<\/strong>. But Cordish has been steadily losing market share ever since and in February came in fourth in the market, behind even Harrah’s Philadelphia<\/strong>, hardly the ritziest casino in town (although the closest to a prison, we’ll give you that). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Last Tuesday, our East Coast correspondent paid Live a visit and found it pretty darn dead. During a three-hour stint at a slot tournament, he saw 200 people, tops. “As you can see from the photo last night, Cordish’s marketing people know how to keep a casino nearly empty,” he wrote us. Not even a ‘Taco Tuesday’ promo could bring out the customers in force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above, what passed for a slot tourney at Philadelphia Live. Below, the blackjack area speaks for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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