You guys make it sound like it's an either-or scenario. I would think Tillman would be interested in having casinos in all three (Lake Charles, Houston, and Galveston) and then just scale down/up each casino based on its performance and potential.
Same reason there are casinos in Biloxi. The demographic of people that will go don't care how crappy the town is.
Only a matter of time before you can place bets at the Toyota Center. Maybe this will finally draw a crowd.
Yeah but they will just move to the sports book instead of the Lexus Lounge. Doesn't solve the problem.
Unless they have devices at each seat where you can place a bet. Or do it from an app on your phone but only when you're in your seat?
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, my gut tells me that people ought to be able to throw their money away in whatever fashion they find pleasing. On the other hand, a older cousin of mine, now dead, lost a small fortune left to her by her father (over one and a half million in Houston real estate, property that would be worth several times that today) due to a gambling addiction. She lost every penny of it over a period of a few years. Needless to say, her kids weren't happy at the time, and aren't happy now, since there was nothing left to inherit except her house in Houston, and that might have been left with a second mortgage attached to it. Gambling may be fun, and I certainly have gambled a time or two, but it isn't all fun and games.
I understand and sympathize (regarding your cousin)... but is the solution to make gambling illegal for all Americans? If a person loses everything in the stock market, should trading stocks be illegal? If a person has an unhealthy obsession with collecting beanie babies and spends all their money doing so, should it be illegal to sell beanie babies?
Where did I say that? Any of that? I didn't. I said I have mixed feelings about the ruling and said why. Mixed feelings are, wait for it, mixed feelings.
Kyle Field better allow this and quit calling ME for money. Pay a fee to gamble on a bunch of random **** in game. Have some ****ing dignity and don't call me.
I'm ready, all I need is the go-sign. I have the fields and the bank lined up. Also: this ruling just throws stuff to the states. Texas has a state law prohibiting casino gambling, they allow parimutual (horses now, and potentially sports) stuff in certain places, i.e. Fredericksburg. I love going to Ruidoso for the races, personally.
I think all deck was saying is that - just like a whole lot of other things that are fun - there is a downside for some people. Gambling addiction, like many other addictions, is not a joke.
If those are the same type of payments that the game companies have to pay players for Madden NFL and NBA 2K, etc, then I see no real difference in ESPN (etc) fantasy games benefitting from players and needed to share in those profits, too.
