{"id":9098,"date":"2012-05-24T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2012-05-24T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:11:08","slug":"quote-of-the-day-424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-424\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9099\" title=\"Adams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Adams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Adams.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Adams-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;[C]oming through the back door, a two-headed monster of  slot machines and mega-jackpots, both online, a monster &#8230; may  completely overtake the conventional gaming industry. The lotteries,  without any additional legislation or oversight, can offer, online, both  slots and other casino games and those very, very large game-changing  jackpots. A casino company has to invest hundreds of millions, if not  billions, of dollars to build a competitive casino; lotteries do not.  Lotteries will have access to every home and have the latest and best  gaming products to offer. If casinos eventually get online, they will be  months or years behind the lotteries. And when the casinos finally do  go online, they will be more tightly regulated and taxed than the  lotteries; it will be very difficult for casinos to keep up. &#8230; Did anyone know they were opening the  back door to online gambling and inviting the lotteries to come inside  and claim the best spot at the table?&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>CDC Gaming Reports<\/strong> analyst <strong>Ken Adams<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?llr=9t5phebab&amp;v=001Sr5a1LSTp6MNWuAx95-VIKYrhlSHFmLGZ1sgrgW4CYNdmRX_E5aPXPeyXRTM4ZHoHM-Y0-q-joXHy1wmCRDa3_uYfCwjF6kKAGd73bzpuDM0Esu5286P_wYdACEtcQ3LCCCYz8gK7TUurqt55JIJnQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">taking a very bleak view of brick-and-mortar casino companies&#8217; prospects<\/a> if <strong>Internet<\/strong> gambling is legalized in the U.S<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[C]oming through the back door, a two-headed monster of slot machines and mega-jackpots, both online, a monster &#8230; may completely overtake the conventional gaming industry. The lotteries, without any additional legislation or oversight, can offer, online, both slots and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-424\/\">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":[14,37,25,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098"}],"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=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}