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[vpFREE] Re: Check out Casino smoking ban controversy continues to smolder

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To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
From: Charles" <fromthevault@yahoo.com>
Date sent: Mon Mar 3, 2008 10:35 pm
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Check out Casino smoking ban controversy continues to smolder

I am not surprised. Herbst Gaming is in technical default on their
debt and their excuse is the smoking ban here in Nevada (re: slot
route operations). Source? The Las Vegas Review Journal.

Don't you just love living in the land of so-called freedom?

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, BANDSTAND54@... wrote:

_Casino smoking ban controversy continues to smolder_
(http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/96778.html)

Any one really surprised?

Grumpy

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I am not surprised. Herbst Gaming is in technical default on their
debt and their excuse is the smoking ban here in Nevada (re: slot
route operations). Source? The Las Vegas Review Journal.

So, what's the value to Herbst of lying about the reason for their
downturn in profits?

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The Mohave Daily News compared the profit / loss for November 2007 to
November 2006.

-9.3% Downtown LV

-19.1% Las Vegas strip

-20.9 Boulder strip

-28.7% North LV

Yeah, it must be the non-smoking ban :slight_smile:

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From: FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FREEvpF…@…com] On
Behalf Of rwhannu
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:30 PM
To: FREEvpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FREEvpFREE] Re: Check out Casino smoking ban controversy continues
to smolder

So, what's the value to Herbst of lying about the reason for their downturn
in profits?

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#4

The Mohave Daily News compared the profit / loss for November 2007

to

November 2006.

-9.3% Downtown LV

-19.1% Las Vegas strip

-20.9 Boulder strip

-28.7% North LV

Yeah, it must be the non-smoking ban :slight_smile:

I'm not sure if that's consistent with this:

"The Las Vegas Strip win of $6.83 billion was up 2.1 percent over
the 2006 win. For all of Clark County, encompassing the Strip,
downtown Las Vegas and other southern Nevada cities, the total was
$10.87 billion, also up 2.1 percent."

which was posted here:

http://www.elkodaily.com/articles/2008/02/13/news/breaking_news/pretz
el11.txt

But, I'm not sure what an overall win or loss for any part of the
state in general has to do with Herbst declaring a loss and blaming
it, in part, on the smoking ban.

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