Archive for February, 2010
The Bear Growls: Harrah’s slithers off the hook again
Friday, February 26th, 2010The Nevada State Contractors Board on Thursday closed its long-standing investigations into illegal remodeling at six Las Vegas hotels in the Harrah’s Entertainment group, when it adopted a settlement in which the parties agree to pay the board $26,000. http://www.lvrj.com/business/harrah_s-hotels-will-pay-fines-85462462.html A tiny fine for all the building code violations and related crookedness. Shameful, but expected. […]
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 […]