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Bad News is Bad for Gambling

When you think of Las Vegas, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it the shows? The restaurants? The hotels? Not if you are the majority of people in this world. Most people associate Las Vegas with slot machines and gambling. They know that the other stuff is there, and that is what makes it Las Vegas – but the first thing they think of is gambling.

However, sometimes that thought process gets a little muddled in the press and in potential customers’ brains. You get stories of dog fighting and gambling on dog fights, and although that didn’t happen in Las Vegas people will immediately connect the two in their minds.

What about the guy gambling on the very games he was officiating? Again, another negative connotation to gambling, which is really what city officials do not want to see. What about the betting scandal involving the illegal non-Nevada bookies and internet sports books? Same thing, lumped in with Vegas, and one more thing for the city to worry about. The stories go on and on, and the outlook just isn’t good for the city.

There was one man who was selling drugs and using the money to play the slot machines at the casino. How in the world would casino officials know that this was how he was making his living? Casinos cannot screen to see where the money is coming from for all of their customers, and to suggest so is ludicrous, but some think that this is the way we are headed. People want to think badly of many things that are fun and exciting, as if it were wrong to be happy. Vegas just wants their customers to have a good time, and they wouldn’t mind some good press too while they are at it.

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