{"id":7442,"date":"2011-09-08T15:52:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2011-09-08T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T23:52:17","slug":"consolation-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/consolation-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolation prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>. Its Canadian flagship, Caesars Windsor<\/strong>, was voted best “Detroit<\/strong> area” casino by readers of Casino Player<\/em> magazine for the 11th year running<\/a>, as well as snagging 10 other awards. Now, if only Caesars could monetize<\/em> that. Given the well-publicized financial struggles of Caesars Windsor, getting a passel of awards from Casino Player<\/em> is like the sound of one hand clapping.<\/p>\n

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If they can’t come to Vegas … bring Vegas to Windsor<\/em>.<\/p>\n

CEO Gary Loveman<\/strong> invested an extra 400 million Loonies (and the Caesars name)\u00a0 into the property in the teeth of what can only be described as active U.S. governmental deterrence of player movement from Detroit into Windsor. Immigration agents have reportedly taken a stance that one S&G<\/em> reader describes as “seeing everyone as a potential terrorist<\/a>.” (My brother recently got this treatment in Vermont<\/strong>, from where I returned recently with armful of horror stories about the “shovel-ready” militarization of the Canadian border.) The heavy hand of “homeland security” is stirring local unrest<\/a>, to say nothing of inconveniencing players.<\/p>\n

\"\"Says the source, “if you even mention you’re at the casino, you’re going to be searched for money<\/em>,”\u00a0 and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. If you win especially big, I’m told, you can kiss that lucre goodbye at customs. Much the same holds true for U.S. punters returning from overseas gambling sojourns. An inbound Daniel Negreanu<\/strong> was allegedly hassled in this fashion … at least until his TV-familiar mug got him sprung.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the big clusterfuck at the Windsor-Detroit nexus is good news for the area’s three other casinos. Heck, it’s probably the best thing that’s happened to Greektown Casino<\/strong> since that place got its license. Motown casinos have ridden out the Great Recession<\/strong> surprisingly well … with a little force majeure<\/em> help from Uncle Sam<\/strong>. Which, in part, is the reason that there will be no 9\/11 observances in S&G<\/em>. That horrific occasion also created a monstrous pretext for the government to inhibit travel out of the U.S. and, if you’ve flown anytime in the last decade, to strike fear into anyone with the temerity to attempt to move expeditiously inside<\/em> the country, too.<\/p>\n

We now return you to our customary genre of ranting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Caesars Entertainment. Its Canadian flagship, Caesars Windsor, was voted best “Detroit area” casino by readers of Casino Player magazine for the 11th year running, as well as snagging 10 other awards. Now, if only Caesars could monetize that. … 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":[28,44,14,7,22,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442"}],"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=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}