Vol. 5 No. 3, March 2008
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They Said It
Quotes from gaming professionals
"I think Appalachian State would have to beat the Giants before the federal government would allow us to change the law to permit sports betting in casinos." —Richard J. Codey, New Jersey Senate president, on an Assembly bill that would put a sports betting question on the November ballot
"For (racetracks) to blame us for their failure is ridiculous. Even if that were the case, so what? Is Smith Corona looking for a subsidy from IBM?" —Joe Corbo, president of the Casino Association of New Jersey, on the call from the state’s racing industry for Atlantic City casinos to increase the subsidy they pay the tracks. Absent VLTs at the tracks, the racing industry says it needs subsidies to survive
"We aim to be supreme over all other competing casinos. We will always offer a better deal for our players." —Jim Allen, CEO of the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, after the casino installed the state’s first Class III slot machines outside of South Florida racetracks
"Already faced with meat-ax cuts to staff and operational budgets that have destroyed morale and come close to turning the property into a dump, workers are now facing even more indignities at the hands of the Kentucky-based halfwits who run the Trop." —Las Vegas Sun business editor Jeff Simpson in a story about the continued incompetence of Columbia Sussex executives running the Tropicana in Las Vegas
"The Palazzo takes no lessons from the nimble, youthful boutique-hotel movement or from wittily-themed Vegas hotels. Instead, the 50-story complex feels more like an inflated Four Seasons. To put it in fashion terms, it's a well-bred woman in a beige Armani pantsuit, while its Siamese-twin sister, the Venetian, is a siren in a Roberto Cavalli cocktail dress." —Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times travel writer, reviewing the newest Vegas property
