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Week In Review

Fireworks fill the Las Vegas sky New Years 2006.

by Marc on January 2, 2012

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The holiday season is just about over and it’s back to normal shortly. Today is officially an “off” day for most businesses so I’m going to be enjoying one final day off as well. Maybe. We’ll see how things go. I hope the holidays were good to you. Here’s to an awesome 2012! Let’s look [...]

Tagged as: Atlantic City, Boardwalk Empire, Casino, Cosmopolitan, Fireworks, Gilley's, Go Kart Racing, Hitlon, Jagermeister, Las Vegas, LVH, Marquee, online poker, Pennsylvania, Pole Position, Sports Gaming, Tourists, Travel, Travel Channel, TV, Valley Forge, Venetian

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Valley Forge Casino Rules Are Strange

Valley Forge Casino

by Marc on December 28, 2011

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Tipster, Brandon, sent over an article detailing the “Access Plan” for the new Valley Forge, Pennsylvania casino currently under construction at the Valley Forge Convention Center. I’m not a resident of Pennsylvania and I have never gambled in that state so these rules are very strange to me. Daily visitors to the Valley Forge Convention [...]

Tagged as: Access Plan, Casino, Chester, Harrah's, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, SugarHouse, Valley Forge

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Seven Stars Insider – Special Holiday Edition

by Marc December 21, 2011
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Here’s the latest edition of Seven Stars Insider.  This is an easy read and an excellent resource for Caesars Total Rewards players.  Head over to Seven Stars Insider to sign up for the newsletter.  This is a nice, quick holiday edition. Enjoy! Las Vegas Holiday Shopping ‘Bait and Switch’ For four days earlier this month, players at Caesars and MGM’s West [...]

Tagged as: Atlantic City, Borgata, Caesars, Diamond, Golden Nugget, Harrah's, Las Vegas, MGM, Pennsylvania, Players Clubs, Seven Stars, Showboat, Strategy, Total Rewards, Trump

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New Jersey Votes To Approve Sports Betting…Now What?

by Marc November 9, 2011
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Yesterday, New Jersey voters approved a referendum that would allow sports betting in the state if a federal ban on sports betting is lifted. But first, a federal ban on sports betting in all but four states would have to be lifted by Congress or overturned by the courts for New Jersey to offer wagering on professional and [...]

Tagged as: Atlantic City, Boxing, Directv, MMA, New Jersey, New York, New York Jets, Pennsylvania, Racino, sports betting, Sports Gaming

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Atlantic City Casinos Get Cheaper and Wider

by Marc October 19, 2011
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Atlantic City is desperate. They’re losing business to the rest of the east coast casinos. As a casino market they are pulling out all the stops. They’ve tried giving away a boob job. They’ve tried bobbing for pickles. Nothing is working. Customers continue to go elsewhere. Now the casinos are looking to bring in lower [...]

Tagged as: Atlantic City, Blackjack, Boob Job, Gambling, Harrah's, Marketing, Pennsylvania, Pickles, Slot Machines, Tropicana

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Venetian Miami Beach? Caesars Racino at Gulfstream?

by Marc October 10, 2011
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Las Vegas Sands is trying to use their name and girth to push aside a company trying to build a casino resort complex in downtown Miami, Florida to build their own complex. Las Vegas Sands (LVS) claims Miami ain’t big enough for two casinos. Though Sands has publicly expressed interest in building a Miami casino resort, [...]

Tagged as: Atlantic City, Caesars, Casino, Gulfstream, Las Vegas, Miami, Pennsylvania, Racino, Sands, Travel, Venetian

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Week In Review

by Marc October 2, 2011
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I don’t really remember much from last week besides going out to write every day and having a lot to share! I’m finally getting caught up from being sick. Yay. I’m looking forward I have a visit from my parents and G2E next week. G2E is the Global Gaming Expo, which is the casino trade [...]

Tagged as: ACES, Atlantic City, Bedbugs, Bellagio, Bethlehem, Black Eyed Peas, Blake Griffin, Blog, Boardwalk Empire, Brooklyn Nets, Coffee, Discounts, Downtown Vegas, Fergie, Full Tilt Poker, Fun, G2E, Global Gaming Expo, Jay-Z, Jim Leonhard, Las Vegas, Lavo, Nikki Beach, Peepshow, Penn & Teller, Pennsylvania, Planet Hollywood, Poker, Ponzi Scheme, Red Sox, Sands, Sports Gaming, TAO, Travel, Tropicana, Video, Video Poker, Wax Museum, Yankees

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Sand Bethlehem #1 in PA

by Marc September 28, 2011
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While Stiffs and Georges often points out that Sands Bethlehem isn’t doing great business for Las Vegas Sands corporation, the casino is now the #1 revenue producing casino in Pennsylvania. Last month Sands was the leading revenue-generating casino, while Parx fell to #2. Parx’s 172 tables brought in $9,674,727 in revenues last month, down from just [...]

Tagged as: Atlantic City, Casino, Economy, Las Vegas Sands, New Jersey, Parx, Pennsylvania, Sands

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Happy Birthday SugarHouse Casino!

by Marc September 26, 2011
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This weekend the SugarHouse casino in Philadelphia, PA celebrated its first birthday. Hooray. Where’s my piece of cake?! Of course, like the rest of the casino business not everything is A-OK. Though SugarHouse has no competition in the city and a vast population to draw from, first-year gross revenue was $212.2 million, less than half [...]

Tagged as: Atlantic City, Birthday, Chester, Construction, Death Blow, Harrah's, Parx, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, SugarHouse

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Week In Review

by Marc April 3, 2011
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I thought this was a busy week on ECG, but it wasn’t too busy on ECG proper. It was busy throughout the new ECG family, which now includes Get Vegas Apps and (the work in progress) Free Picks and Fun!  Truth is all blogs are works in progress, but I’m still trying to find the [...]

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