{"id":7174,"date":"2011-07-22T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2011-07-22T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:19:37","slug":"bingo-returns-to-the-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/bingo-returns-to-the-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingo returns to the Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7175\" title=\"riviera-pic2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riviera-pic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riviera-pic2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riviera-pic2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>Although it was my (much younger) wife who got me into playing bingo, let&#8217;s face it: Bingo is the archetypal &#8212; some would say stereotypical &#8212; game of the <strong>AARP<\/strong> set. In its latest move to attract a value-oriented, nostalgic clientele, the <strong>Riviera<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivierahotel.com\/casino\/bingo.asp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">bringing the game back to the Strip<\/a>. The official announcement doesn&#8217;t make it clear whether there&#8217;s a dauber-and-paper complement to the Riv&#8217;s new battery of e-bingo devices. That&#8217;d take some of the fun out of the game, whose presence may also help get locals back on-property. At any rate, the choice of venue is apt, since the Riv used to hold an annual bingo trade show &#8230; and still does, for all I know.<\/p>\n<p>Your move, <strong>Tropicana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it was my (much younger) wife who got me into playing bingo, let&#8217;s face it: Bingo is the archetypal &#8212; some would say stereotypical &#8212; game of the AARP set. In its latest move to attract a value-oriented, nostalgic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/bingo-returns-to-the-strip\/\">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":[48,28,4,53,55,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174"}],"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=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}