Casino execs’ greed overboard
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The May 30 Wall Street Journal had a front-page article headlined, “Bettors Find It Harder to Win At Casinos on Las Vegas Strip.” The comments made by Caesars Entertainment chief Tom Reeg to Wall Street Journal analysts seemed to sum up today’s Las Vegas casino mindset on gamblers living here and coming to our town as tourists.
Reeg and Caesars are delighted at the new line of thinking for Vegas casinos, “making it costlier to play and harder to win,” as the Journal put it. They seem proud that they are attracting higher-end people and tourists to our city. I guess there is less than nothing to be said about those who live here and those who come here to do just a little gambling as a respite from work and life in general — those who are seeking a break to blow off a little steam and hope that with a mere few dollars they have an opportunity to hit a jackpot.
Apparently, Reeg isn’t interested in we little gamblers or our tourists; he’d rather, as he states, promote “kicking out the lowest end.” He sees “no reason that needs to stop or would stop” in Vegas for the future.
I’m all for making a healthy profit, but when I read such disgusting intent and greed to this level, I just want to throw up.
I’ll take and spend my gambling dollars anywhere else but Las Vegas.
