MGM Resorts releases casino reopening plan for Las Vegas Strip, other US properties

https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/mgm-resorts-releases-casino-reopening-plan-for-las-vegas-strip-other-us-properties/article_2cf257f0-9459-11ea-a840-4395917dad42.amp.html

Red Wind Casino in the state of Washington announced they will be formally opening May 18th. They also announced they will be 100% smoke-free and that is the best thing that could have came out of all of this and I think every Casino in the United States will be that way or should be that way. Smokers will still go no matter what they say, in fact the state of Minnesota went smoke-free and all of the non-tribal casinos prohibited smoking.  Of course they all kept going, they just go outside to smoke what's the big deal?

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/nyregion/neighborhood-report-upper-east-side-law-vs-reality-brothel-proves-difficult.html

As published.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/venetian-palazzo-set-for-june-reopening-staff-virus-testing-begins-2025706/amp/

Just a tiny bit over the weekend, the first two pictures are from Saturday and the next two pictures are from Sunday.  The first 3 at a large convenience store chain in the Midwest USA.  We have gone for about about two months without virtually any Bakery products or other self-serve foods without being pro rationed or pre-packaged, individually packaged, etc. Most of the bulk foods in the supermarkets such as the candy and other bulk items such as olives and specialty foods are removed and staying removed.  Every buffet i have come across is either shut down or has been physically removed. I had a small self-service section at my restaurant which I would put featured foods that were freshly cooked and the State Health Department came in and told me what I had to do to keep it. I decided to remove it as well their rules and regulations concerning it were cost prohibited and countless times more stringent than handling the food in the kitchen and regular service from preparation to customers table.

Anyway on Saturday I finally observed some donuts in The Fresh Bakery case at a large convenience store chain and although the flavors were limited on Sunday they added and started to get back to normal. As well for the first time the roller grills were in operation once again.  After that I had to stop at the supermarket to pick up some cleaning supplies and the paper goods aisle was getting better and I've said all along that there's no shortage in the supply chain it was just in getting it to the marketplace and all the distribution and packaging and trucking that has to go on to get it onto the shelves, that the majority of the public does not understand.

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You know the comparison between what has happened with the C-19 AFTERMATH and just say playing Baccarat, where as a player goes up to the baccarat table, Buys-in and expects the shoe to produce fallacy and fulfill his desire after he spent time reading and testing and proving himself on the internet, is so close in analogy it's actually sad. True, but sad!

The new norm?  A norm at all?  Uncharted territory.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/food/restaurants-reopen-find-no-rush-for-new-normal-in-las-vegas-2025045/amp/

Shutdown of tribal casinos deals blow to Native American community

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/05/10/shutdown-of-tribal-casinos-deals-blow-to-native-american-community/amp

No one really knows what the casinos will look like when they reopen but one thing for sure there will be changes:

https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/las-vegas-torn-virus-casinos-clamor-reopen-014906416.html

Nevada Gaming Control Board details casino reopening requirements in black and white:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/gaming-control-board-details-casino-requirements-for-reopening-2019866/amp/

Some of the casino changes for reopening:

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3043146001?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=AMPfeed&utm_content=travel

You see it here first. What casinos might look like with some of the inventions being created as you read this.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/las-vegas-company-invents-self-cleaning-slot-machine-divider/article_34809a0c-8aa6-11ea-b952-274a76dc0430.amp.html

You know when you come to think about it, any system of playing with or without progressions can be claimed to be won in the long run.  As long as you always do the same thing and you play until you get ahead. In other words beating randomness.

Just say I'm flat betting on Banker and in the long run I have to win (at some point of course), so i can simply label it a holy grail. I could say flat betting Banker is a holy grail and I'm going to keep betting Banker every single hand and just play shoe after shoe, week after week and at some point I am going to be ahead.  And at that point I can stop and say my flat betting system on banker works. I can do the same thing by betting on Player only as well. I can do the same thing betting every 5th or 10th hand, etc., etc.  I could do the same thing by betting every Player or Banker after every natural comes out.

Because I'm going to stop after I get ahead by a certain amount of units and it's always going to be that way.   But do you have enough bankroll to fund that and do you have the willpower not to increase your bets once you start winning?

No wonder New York has the highest outbreak and the infection rate keeps going up! Look at these workers at a funeral home handling the transport van with some of the bodies in body bags. No masks on and no overall protective equipment. And there is confirmed sightings and an investigation into fluids dripping from some of the vans and stacked up bodies outside of the funeral home.

Totally unbelievable but totally believable with the mentality of so nany people. State and Federal laws mandate more personal protection equipment to be worn when handling simple non-hazardous fluid clean-up from truck accidents such as diesel fuel and gasoline and yet this is transpiring in today's atmosphere!

I will have a number 6 along with three number 4 appetizers to go and can you please make the Moo Shu pork a little bit extra spicy.

"NYC mayor calls bodies outside a Brooklyn funeral home "absolutely unacceptable"

QUOTE:  "What happened: On Wednesday, the bodies were discovered after someone reported fluids dripping from four trucks parked outside the Andrew Cleckley Funeral Home in Brooklyn, a law enforcement official told CNN.

The home was overwhelmed and ran out of room for bodies, which were awaiting cremation, and used the trucks for storage, a second law enforcement source said Wednesday."

https://gothamist.com/news/dozens-bodies-found-unrefrigerated-truck-outside-brooklyn-funeral-home

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/us-coronavirus-update-04-30-20/index.html

https://www.foxnews.com/us/dozens-of-bodies-found-u-haul-trucks-outside-nyc-funeral-home

Can you imagine the waiting line and the desire to have the first couple conventions, sporting events or concerts inside the Atlantic City Convention Center once this pandemic is over? Boy that's going to go over real big!  That's going to go over so big,I bet they got thousands of people waiting to rent that place out as soon as this pandemic is over!

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atlantic-city-convention-center-hospital-up-and-running/article_e4fe4802-7ccd-5125-8602-1278cdd6c0a4.html#9

Here's the latest:

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/casinos_tourism/atlanticare-atlantic-city-casinos-partner-for-safe-reopening-strategy/article_89ed02f7-70cb-5ae6-b06b-78baf73975e2.amp.html

Yes it's going to be a little while:

https://news3lv.com/news/local/were-certainly-not-opening-up-the-strip-gov-sisolak-fires-back-discusses-re-opening

Among numerous other things this is the way it's shaping up.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/nevada-casino-regulator-considering-guidelines-for-reopening-2017220/amp/

So the Press is reaching and it is just calling it, 'The X Factor'.  Man in my opinion the Press is having a field day.

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/04/customer-confidence-is-x-factor-in-atlantic-city-reboot-editorial.html?outputType=amp

https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/venetian-resort-on-las-vegas-strip-releases-reopening-protocol-amid-pandemic/article_224d23ec-8956-11ea-abd3-2b4cfd466b20.amp.html

https://komonews.com/amp/news/coronavirus/masks-separated-slots-more-cleaning-once-casinos-reopen

Vegas' plan to reopen May 15.

https://www.ktnv.com/rebound/coronavirus-investigations/sisloak-nevada-joins-5-other-western-states-in-pact-to-reopen-responsibly

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8261049/amp/Wynn-Las-Vegas-taking-reservations-Memorial-Weekend.html

Good basic facts and responsible reporting:

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/interest-in-reopening-atlantic-city-casinos-will-be-widely-shared/article_9a57ac11-6bd3-52fd-881a-38b7d64b4605.amp.html

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/listen-what-does-the-sale-of-ballys-mean-for-the-citys-casino-market/article_1e33b355-d523-56d1-a27c-46e28c5e065c.amp.html

What I'm seeing is some of the lowest gas prices of many years, at least I have not seen it below what I paid for it last night after of the year 2000 anyway. $1.11a gallon.

Pictures of the pump 2 days ago.

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As far as the store shelves, as of this morning with two major retailers just about everything was back in stock and well stocked up with exception of about half of the paper goods isle and some specialty products like Lysol disinfectant and those sanitizing wipes in single service containers and a very few other select items were either very low or not in stock.  But I would say 90% of the store is back. I do not believe there was ever a problem with the supply chain, it was with the the trucking of it, the manpower and the labor including the packaging to deliver it and get it into the stores, which takes some time to do.

Pictures this morning of what was about the number one complaint from most everybody was the paper goods aisle.

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This morning the transaction was announced.

25 million dollars has to be to buy of the century in my opinion for this property on the boardwalk. Yes it was older and needs some renovation.   I know the property well but with a little bit of money, it can be a Premier Property once again on the boardwalk, when the business comes back. Never thought I'd see something sold for 25 million dollars with this kind of value.

https://www.hotelbusiness.com/twin-river-acquires-ballys-atlantic-city-other-resort-casinos/

I have written about baccarat tournaments in the past.  Everything since around the beginning of the removal of the big table bac (the 14 seat players 2 sided tables with the 3 dealers and the players dealing the shoe, etc.) has changed for the favor of the casino.  All of this started in the early 2000s and really picked up speed to curtail and change it all in favor of the casino probably around 2007 to 2010 or so. 

Attached is a claim against the Venetian in Las Vegas regarding one of their baccarat tournaments.  I will not comment of the validity of it or the plaintiffs merits cited within.  However, I will about the tournaments and how they have changed.  This all happened just prior to and along side of the entire comp/points awarding issue al changing for the casinos favor also, which was right around the same time and extending up to 2014/2015 or so. 

Back to tournaments.   Prior to what I mentioned above the way tournaments were handled were no-charge to the player.  Simply an invite status based upon their hosts and their play records, points.  There were no entrance fees and if there were, those would have been at some of the smaller casinos outside of the larger gaming jurisdictions. From the mid 80's, through the entire 90's and the early 2000's I never seen an entrance fee or anything of the likes of today with qualifying with points, etc., etc.  It was strictly an invite, upon arrival the player always was given a nice gift of some type, like Baccarat Crystal or other worthwhile items, a private buffet set-up in a near-by convention room just for the baccarat players with an absolute over-the-top assortment of foods.  The gift always having a value of $300.00 to the $600.00 range easily, if not greater. There also was never a required play demanded prior to the tournament itself.   

Most of the tournaments were a "Winner Take All", or if not that they were awarding the cash prizes to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.  Then after a while, probably the latter part of the 90's even into the early 2000s, instead of cash prizes came the awarding of promotional chips in place of the cash.  Still okay, not as good but decent.  Those promotion chips were usually lay until you lost the promo chip hands you were wagering.  Not one time use chips lke so many casinos have today.  Another change that enormously favors the casino.

IMO, this claim is right up to par with the Venetian and its Hosts/Marketing Department.  I went there many times when they first opened around 2000 up to 2005 or so.  Each time their Hosts became more and more skimpy with their comps as well as sitting down with the player after the visit and scrutinizing every aspect of his play, etc.  Compared to the other properties, a huge difference in comping RFB&I, etc.

The Overview of the Claim:

https://www.courthousenews.com/the-venetian-runs-a-crooked-game-baccarat-player-says/

The Court Filed Compliant:

http://files.courthousenews.com/2007/10/22/Markowiak.pdf