{"id":4801,"date":"2010-10-11T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2022-04-07T06:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:08:53","slug":"cantors-been-a-naughty-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/cantors-been-a-naughty-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantor’s been a naughty boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a certain whiff of desperation to this Cantor Gaming<\/strong> spot, pimping their casino-in-one gaming devices (which, in addition to their cutting-edge technology, apparently make chicks find you totally hot). The gadgetry and software, which were legalized five years ago, have been a big hit with sports bettors. For all other forms of gamblers … not so much, judging by the technology’s slowness to move past M Resort<\/strong> and a limited rollout at Venelazzo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the time AB 471<\/strong> (drafted by Cantor itself<\/a>) legitimized the devices, MGM Resorts International<\/strong> spokesman Alan Feldman<\/strong> said, “Our customers know how to find the casino. We need to undertake a more thorough analysis of whether this is relevant for our guests.” The ultimate answer appears to have been, ‘no.’ Perhaps it’s because the communal experience of a group of players whooping it up around a craps table, say, may be thrilling on the casino floor but it’s hard to create that same frisson<\/em> with a bunch of people crowding about a glorified iPhone, squinting at the lilliputian “green felt” onscreen.<\/p>\n

Cantor isn’t afraid to stretch the truth in order to promote wider use of its gizmos …<\/p>\n

At the end of the commercial, which I was startled to discover in the course of yesterday’s NFL<\/strong> TV marathon, a player is shown wagering via Cantor technology from the privacy of his luxury suite. Since in-room wagering is expressly forbidden under AB 471, I put in a call to the Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong>, to find out if the law had been amended in the dead of night or something of that ilk. The NGCB’s Mark Warren<\/strong> informs me that is has not and that hotel rooms still do not constitute “public areas.” So Cantor and M Resort are engaged in misleading — perhaps outright false — advertising. Whether anyone is going to call them on it remains to be seen, although I tend to doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a certain whiff of desperation to this Cantor Gaming spot, pimping their casino-in-one gaming devices (which, in addition to their cutting-edge technology, apparently make chicks find you totally hot). The gadgetry and software, which were legalized five years ago, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,53,11,25,12,74,8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801"}],"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=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30993,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/30993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}