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Barkley stiffing Wynn Casino

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Pancamo, May 15, 2008.

  1. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Folks ain't friendly in AC, that's for sure. Midwest casinos are nicer to you as they extricate your cash from you.
     
  2. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    The Wynn screwed up. Yeah, they're getting their $400K back sooner rather than later, but by making Barkley look bad, him, Jordan, Woods and all their other whale buddies are going to take their action to a different casino.

    I enjoy gambling, and fortunately being cheap provides good checks and balances. I can spend all day at the race track with $20. I bet to win, not win money. I spend far more on beer than I do at the window. It's more about being right where you have a slight reward or penalty based on the outcome.

    My father-in-law and I have the regular debate: "Big deal, you won $2." "Yeah, but I won."

    I love going to Vegas and hitting the casinos, but I'm too cheap to play the table games. Even on a $10 minimum, you can go through more than I am willing to lose in 15 minutes. I can play low limit poker or hit the machines and stay there all day.

    As for people gambling who can't afford it, ever been to some of the Midwest casinos? In Vegas, most people you see there can afford to be there. I've been to a couple in Indiana where you know some folks are dropping their trailer payments.

    They don't build lavish hotels in the desert or in corn fields because they lose money.
     
  3. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Did not know that. My bad.

    There's also a slot casino in Yonkers, another easily doable drive from the Monticello region.
     
  4. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    My guess, BYH, is you are not totally wrong. An old track has been gussied up with slots and turned into a casino (with horses). It has happened in a lot of places. Charles Town in WVa is going through quite the revival. You see the commercials on TV for "Charles Town Races and Slots" and you never see a horse. You see happy, handsome people holding up their money. Maryland racing is suffering badly because of slots being available in West Virginia and Delaware.
     
  5. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    And the Yonkers slot casino is the old Yonkers Raceway.

    And the newest slot casino is at Mount Airy Lodge in the Poconos after Poconos Downs Raceway (another harness track) had great success.
     
  6. I enjoy gambling. There was a time, many years ago, when it got a bit out of control -- dropping far more than I could afford, feeling like crap afterward, etc. It never got to the point where I was skipping rent or car payments, but it was messing too much with my head.

    With that, and with age, I've become a lot more sedate in my wagering. Now, one trip a year to Vegas is plenty. Throw in a trip every six-eight weeks to a casino around here (there are at least six within a three-hour drive) and that's plenty. And now I stick to a loss limit -- whatever it is I can afford that day, be it $100, $200 or $300.

    Owning a home and taking overseas vacations also helps limit your available cash, I've found. Overall, though, it's been pretty easy to wean myself of the gambling jones. But I can see where it wouldn't be.
     
  7. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    And Yonkers slot purses have benefited markedly -- to the considerable distress of The Meadowlands.

    Yonkers used to be a thoroughbred track, back before I was alive. It was called Empire City -- the name they happily reclaimed for their godforsaken slot emporium.
     
  8. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Ontario has some of the best throughbred and standardbred racing in North America but who knows what it might look like today without slots.

    They redid Woodbine, turning the entire first floor into a slot operation and renovated the rest of the tired plant, allowed free parking and admission to the track and saw purses go thrugh the roof.

    There are slots at Mohawk, a harness track west of Toronto, and a new track/slot joint even opened a few years ago in Barrie, about an hour north of Toronto. That would be unthinkable without slots.
     
  9. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    That's basically Twin River, in what used to be Lincoln Downs (horse racing in the old days) and later Lincoln Park (dog racing, which only goes on today because the dog owners association has powerful lobbyists in the R.I. General Assembly and gets a $15 million annual subsidy - about the only thing neither the governor nor legislators has not put on the table to fill the nearly half-billion dollar hole in our state budget).
    As my lawyer brother-in-law puts it about Twin River's clientele, "It's like District Court."
     
  10. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    I can't stand slots, so that wouldn't be a draw for me. But it's a sad statement on horse racing that it has come down to that.
     
  11. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    It is never good publicity for a casino to do this, because they want people to spend to the very edge of their ability to pay back. A reminder that even famous people can go broke there is bad for business. I wonder how many times Sir Charles blew them off before they had to get tough with him.
     
  12. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    State treasurers have gotten a whiff of how much money they can get from casinos and their greed is just as pathetic. Ever read some of the fine print in the discussions whenever a gaming company wants to open a facility? It's nothing but legalized theft and the states want more, more, more.

    West Virginia offered slots and the traffic from Pennsylvania was astounding. Pennsylvania responded with slots and that had a negative impact on West Virginia, so they added table games. You can bet Pennsylvania won't be far behind, and all the neighboring states also see the money they're losing when their residents cross state lines to gamble.
     
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