Posted on 05/07/2020 1:14:58 AM PDT by Libloather
As Rodney Butler walks through the dark halls of the Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut, he laments that the 4,500 slot machines throughout the establishment that he considers home are turned off.
It’s “unbelievable,” Butler said. “They should be clinging and clanging right now.”
Foxwoods, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, is one of the largest casinos in the world. It’s owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, for which Butler is the chairman. He says that up until the coronavirus, COVID-19, came to the United States, the casino had never shut its doors.
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Across the country, from Las Vegas to Atlantic City, casinos are facing a risk of crumbling under the immense weight of the economic shutdown caused by COVID-19.
“Nobody’s paying rent, so we have no gaming income. No lease income,” Butler said. “There’s no tax base here on the reservation. So it’s costing us a couple of million a week just to stay closed.”
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Oh yes. No one is it going to want to spend their money when there are 30 million people who lost their jobs. Things are just too uncertain, for the time being at least.
Getting a slip of paper while listening to low quality audio of coins hitting a loosly mounted thin metal pan is totally lame.
Remember the good old days when you actually got a ####load of coins :)
i’d have buckets of quarter i’d be walking around with lol
usually by the end of the trip, they were empty :)
between no expensive dates and no casinos, the upshot of this virus is i’m saving a bundle.
I liked those Ike “silver” Dollars...
Tell that to the retirees with good income that. They love Foxwood. It’s a sea of white and blue haired old ladies at those slot machines.
I’ve seen photos of the partitions they’ve installed in one of the Hard Rock casinos, it more reminded me of a cone of silence from Get Smart than an actual safety measure. I think their thought for blackjack is ‘no touch play’ where you can buy insurance before the dealer turns over your cards for you; the only thing you touch is the chips you bet, once bet they go into a cage if you lose.
They’ve done some testing; each table will have a dealer and a ‘safety team member’ to ensure policies are followed and to step in if contamination is observed.
Fun times for everyone.
“They should be clinging and clanging right now.”
Yea right,just aint the same since they went all digital
Back when the mob ran casinos. Those were the good old days. They practically gave the rooms, food, and booze away for free just to keep you at the tables giving them your money.
The mobsters died in prison, Disney and Universal own the casinos, a bottle of Heinekin costs $12 and champaign brunch buffet is $45.
We call that “progress.”
I was never a slot machine player. (I use to think of them as garbage cans with handles, but I guess now they just have buttons.) But the sound of coins falling in real slot machines was one of the things that made casinos exciting to me. When the fake noise first appeared I realized that these places would sound like libraries were it not there.
ML/NJ
Don't forget the Foxwood bingo hall, the largest in the world - seats 4,000. White/blue hairs love their bingo.
Kind of mixed feelings about the need for having casinos, and lotteries, for that matter.
If you thought slots were tight before all this horse hockey, you haven’t seen anything yet. One may as well toss hundred dollar bills out the window as they drive down the freeway.
Casino its cool
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