Destination Resorts in Texas

Glamorous resorts...yeah in the commercials. Then you go into a big smoky cavern where decrepit old folks drag oxygen bottles from slot machine to slot machine. Gambling addiction is real and ain't nothing glamorous for the families impacted.
 
Crockett said:
Glamorous resorts...yeah in the commercials. Then you go into a big smoky cavern where decrepit old folks drag oxygen bottles from slot machine to slot machine. Gambling addiction is real and ain't nothing glamorous for the families impacted.
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Similar to " gentlemens'" clubs.
 
Crockett said:
Glamorous resorts...yeah in the commercials. Then you go into a big smoky cavern where decrepit old folks drag oxygen bottles from slot machine to slot machine. Gambling addiction is real and ain't nothing glamorous for the families impacted.
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I'm not a fan of casino gambling in general. They attract trashy business interests and encourage massive wasting of money and harming families. However, I also don't understand why US casinos tend to be low-class, dumpy establishments. The casino in Wiesbaden, Germany (where I lived) looked like this on the outside.

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And like this on the inside. Though anyone could go in, you couldn't go in dressed like a bum.

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This is basically free tax $ that is voluntarily paid. If you don't want to pay the tax, don't go there.

Right now that free tax $ is going from the pockets of Texans to the state gov'ts of Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

Of course, there are some who would prefer to pay extra high property taxes. There's some in every crowd.
 
Mr. Deez said:
I'm not a fan of casino gambling in general. They attract trashy business interests and encourage massive wasting of money and harming families. However, I also don't understand why US casinos tend to be low-class, dumpy establishments. The casino in Wiesbaden, Germany (where I lived) looked like this on the outside.

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And like this on the inside. Though anyone could go in, you couldn't go in dressed like a bum.

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Well, ugh, how many ghettos have you seen in Germany?
 
Mr D
I am not a gambler. I would want them to give me my money back at end of night BUT the casinos I have been in with people who did like gambling, Winstar, Harrahs, Hard Rock in NO ,Several in Atlantic City. Foxwoods in Conn .many many in Vegas All were pretty top notch, several were really luxe so not sure What casinos you were in that were "dumpy".
 
Horn6721 said:
Mr D
I am not a gambler. I would want them to give me my money back at end of night BUT the casinos I have been in with people who did like gambling, Winstar, Harrahs, Hard Rock in NO ,Several in Atlantic City. Foxwoods in Conn .many many in Vegas All were pretty top notch, several were really luxe so not sure What casinos you were in that were "dumpy".
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Not many. My ex-gf dragged me to a few in Vegas, and they just seemed low class to me. Not blatantly filthy but just tacky.
 
Well Mr D IF you compared the casinos in Europe which have been around forhundreds of years when casinos catered to upper classes to casinos here in USA less than 100 years casinos here would lose. I bet tho there are tacky low class casinos in Europe too
 
We should allow casinos in some place like Howard county only. Way out west. Dry as hell. Hardly any population. If they can turn this into a "Destination Resort"....more power to them.
 
Ok, but they also should be in DFW, Houston, Gainesville, Sherman, and Paris. The latter three to take away from the border casinos in Oklahoma and Louisiana.
 
ViperHorn said:
Ok, but they also should be in DFW, Houston, Gainesville, Sherman, and Paris. The latter three to take away from the border casinos in Oklahoma and Louisiana.
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Starting about a year ago, when I'd go to the Rangers stadium or "Texas Live", I'd ask the employees (TX Live, that Loews hotel, stadium) looking for an inside scoop to verify what I suspected about the Choctaws buying the old stadium and building (hmmmmmmm why would an Indian Tribe buy that and other real estate in an entertainment district right in the middle of the DFW Metroplex...???? very puzzling...???)

More than a few said, yeah, the word in the grapevine is that the Choctaws (really their minions) will make a push for gaming in Texas.

Well, lo and behold! Who saw that coming...
 
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Ok, but they also should be in DFW, Houston, Gainesville, Sherman, and Paris. The latter three to take away from the border casinos in Oklahoma and Louisiana.
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I would put it in one location somewhere between Hearne, Milano, and Bryan along HWY 190 which is roughly the middle of the triangle for DFW, San Antonio, and Houston. This makes up about 2/3 of the state's population.

From each city it is between 2 to 3 hour drive to Hearne.

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Then again, other sources are saying Sands is behind most of the Texas advertising. For those who don't know, that's owned by the right-wing-funding Adelson family (and a bunch of other shareholders). Venetian is their big Las Vegas hotel, and they make a lot of $$$$ in Singapore, Macao, and elsewhere.

Adelson was Trump's biggest $$$$$ donor.
 
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Now if only there was a beach town in Texas that had a long and storied history of gambling....

That would be a logical place to approve a Destination Resort.

If only...
 
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