{"id":484,"date":"2009-07-27T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/7\/27\/Show-Me-no-stinkin-IDs"},"modified":"2009-07-27T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:46:00","slug":"show-me-no-stinkin-ids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/show-me-no-stinkin-ids-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&apos;Show Me&apos; no stinkin&apos; IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"175\" height=\"209\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/Stremming.jpg\" \/> &quot;We don&apos;t want them in there,&quot; huffs <strong>Ameristar Casinos<\/strong>&apos; <strong>Troy Stremming<\/strong> (<em>left<\/em>) with regard to pathological gamblers. Stremming&apos;s high dudgeon rings a mite hollow now that the <strong>Missouri<\/strong> ballot initiative he crafted and shepherded to victory last fall is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/8FF96BAEC990EA5A862575FF0079EEC0?OpenDocument\" class=\"broken_link\">providing a free pass for problem gamblers<\/a>. Once boarding requirements were repealed, away went the mechanism for screening self-banned gamblers. Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s not like they still can&apos;t be caught on-property, though. Woe betide the player who hits a sufficiently big jackpot for his slot machine to go into &quot;IRS lockdown.&quot; His identity has to be verified &#8212; which means he can kiss those winnings goodbye and prepare to be handcuffed. To quote <strong>Geena Davis<\/strong> in <em>Thelma &amp; Louise<\/em>, &quot;The law is some tricky shit.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But Missouri&apos;s got nothing on <strong>Illinois<\/strong>, where casino employees double as &quot;bounty hunters.&quot; If you&apos;re a self-banned player who&apos;s shooting dice at <em>Alton Belle<\/em> or <em>Casino Queen<\/em>, there&apos;s literally a price on your head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;We don&apos;t want them in there,&quot; huffs Ameristar Casinos&apos; Troy Stremming (left) with regard to pathological gamblers. Stremming&apos;s high dudgeon rings a mite hollow now that the Missouri ballot initiative he crafted and shepherded to victory last fall is providing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/show-me-no-stinkin-ids-2\/\">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":[40,39,69,90,25,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}