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« Previous EntriesThe Bear Growls: Man near death in New York New York hallway for hours; people just stepped around the body. What happened to “security?” Man subsequently died.
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011New York New York Clark County commissioner stunned no charges filed yet in latest Strip death For six hours, Terrell lay on the hallway floor near the elevator as hotel customers stepped around his body entering and exiting the elevator, according to what (Clark County Commissioner Steve) Sisolak said he was told by Metro (Police). [...]
The Bear Growls: Casino industry swallows up Clark County Manager
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010The Bear Growls: John Ascuaga’s Nugget tells employees to lie to patrons
Thursday, August 12th, 2010We all know lying to the public is part of a normal day for many front-line casino employees. Dealers lie about 6 to 5 blackjack not being as bad as it is, reservations agents lie about the hotel being sold out, pit supervisors lie about not being able to issue certain comps. All of that [...]
Bear Praise: Gaming Control Board settles Treasure Island false imprisonment case
Friday, July 23rd, 2010As regular readers know, I am a frequent critic of the Nevada Gaming Control Board for failing to use its considerable enforcement power to punish wrongdoing by casinos and their employees. I dislike the Board’s ability to legally operate in secret in most cases. I think transparency would be best for Nevada and best for [...]
The Bear Growls: Colorado casinos move to cheapen blackjack
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010It’s a shame that Colorado casino operators have already shown their excessive greed by requesting state regulators to permit the sucker-fleecing 6 to 5 payoff on blackjack. Some of the information in this article is misleading, to say the least: “Six-to-5 is common in Vegas now, so the industry wants to be consistent with other [...]
The Bear Growls: Vegas Club — Cheaters, Idiots or Both?
Thursday, November 5th, 2009My friend Bradley Peterson posted the below at Las Vegas Advisor.com It is reprinted here with permission: For the first time in my life, I have had to contact the Nevada Gaming Board. The following is what occurred that prompted my call and subsequent filed complaint. On Wednesday, October 28th, I went to the Vegas [...]
The Bear Growls: Steve Wynn stoops to new low — Concert attendees have to show identification
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009From its beginning, Wynn Las Vegas has been the worst casino at privacy invasion and abuse of its patrons’ personal information. Wynn’s casino management has no respect for the privacy of its patrons. The casino harasses patrons for identification at every possible opportunity. It has the despicable policy of demanding to scan personal documents into [...]
The Bear Growls: Planet Hollywood and other casinos think false imprisonment and extortion “make good sense”
Thursday, September 17th, 2009This complaint filed today with the Nevada Gaming Control Board speaks for itself: ————————————————————————————— Jerry Markling, Chief of Enforcement Randall Sayre, Board Member Nevada Gaming Control Board Unsuitable practices complaint against Planet Hollywood — False imprisonment and extortion Please accept this for the purpose of filing an unsuitable practices complaint against Planet Hollywood, for its [...]
The Bear Growls: Palms, Rampart, Cannery, South Point conspire to fix prices in sportsbooks
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Competitors Palms, Rampart/Cannery, and South Point have conspired to attempt to fix prices at their sports books, to the detriment of the public. Though the books will remain independent in their operations, they will have the same lines (i.e, prices) at all locations. It is worth noting that these are competitors, not several locations under [...]
The Bear Growls: M Resort’s puny marketing efforts
Monday, June 22nd, 2009I had hope for the M Resort when it first opened. Decent blackjack, friendly employees, good service, lots of customers. I gladly doled out some Bear Praise for it. Little by little, in just a couple of months, all the above have deteriorated. Employees have been laid off, games gutted, attitudes worsened. One poorly thought-out [...]
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