The NFR is leaving Las Vegas after next December for Florida. This is good news for video poker players as the casinos will have to offer more promotions in December to offset the loss of visitors the first two weeks of the month. If you were a local in the old days you looked forward to December because you had the whole town to yourself. No tourists or traffic. I used to imagine that December was like Las Vegas in the early sixties. A relaxing laid back place to be that was a special place to visit.
OT: Rodeo leaving town for good
vpking77 wrote: The NFR is leaving Las Vegas after next December for Florida. This is good news for video poker players as the casinos will have to offer more
promotions in December to offset the loss of visitors the first two weeks of the month. If you were a local in the old days you looked forward to December because you had the whole town to yourself. No tourists or traffic. I used to imagine that December was like Las Vegas in the early sixties. A relaxing laid back place to be that was a special place to visit.
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Maybe. The casinos make a lot of money from NFR. Without that money they
will need to cut back other places. It’s not at all guaranteed that losing that source of income automatically means they will start throwing money in our direction.
Generally speaking, when casinos are making money, they have bigger budgets to offer promotions with. When they are losing money (witness the recent recession) they tend to tighten up everywhere.
The fortunes of the casinos and the players are correlated more than you might think. There are players who think it is “us” (i.e. players) against “them” (i.e. casinos.) This is a very shortsighted view. Wishing bad things to happen to a group that you depend upon for your livelihood doesn’t make sense to me.
Bob
You mean before screaming kids could run thru the casinos?
We flew in from the East Coast on 12/7 and left 12/16. Didn’t know NFR got so huge.
Cowboys/cowgirls everywhere but not many at machines. Table games and bars crowded.
Southpoint was cowboy central.
It was fun people watching. Distant memories of Wagon Train, Lone Ranger, Maverick, Bonanza…
Wife said the cowboys were most polite. Muttered something about very tall and nice butts.
apparently the rodeo leaving Las Vegas is not quite a done deal yet
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Bob
Your wife hit the nail on the head. The whole Rodeo crowd is very courteous. There is no shoveling, pushing, swearing, or pants hanging down past nasty underwear.
I don’t know about that…I once saw a cowboy walking through a casino with his hand down his pants scratching his behind…
Gee, pumsparky, I don’t know - it’s a Rodeo event afterall. There’s gotta be a certain amount of “shoveling”.