Maybe Steve Wynn could make a comeback with a poker themed hotel. He used to occasionally play poker down at the Horseshoe back in the 80's.

Ted, undoubtedly, you were one of the three qualified persons eligibile to bid.

https://www.cdcgamingreports.com/no-...-casino-hotel/

What happened ? Did you forget to bring $35 million to bid on the Lucky Dragon ?

Somebody call Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Tobey Maguire, and Leonardo DiCaprio. They could now have their own poker themed hotel at a bargain price. Maybe call it "The Rounders Inn".

The bank would now probably even go lower than 35 million for the 90 million dollar hotel.

I remember this thread. Clearly Alzheimer's isn't a problem for me, living in the UK where online poker hasn't been interrupted.

If a poker themed hotel was such a stellar idea, then you should have had NO problem getting backers for your bid.

Oh, wait...you wanted OTHER people to pony up for a failed concept...that won't happen, even in a liberal investing environment (which we are NOT in at the moment). Seems to suggest, nay confirm that you don't know jack about the hotel industry...

This asian themed hotel/casino clearly failed because asians would rather not gamble in a casino called the Lucky Dragon.

Now, what would be the desire for a tourist poker player to stay at Rounders Hotel and Casino? Is it that they want to go busto and risk getting murdered to win their br back?

Free Oreos in the poker room? Will dealers be required to use a Russian accent when they tell players not to splash the pot?

Let's just say I know enough about the Vegas hotel industry never to put myself in a position where I had to stay at the 112 year old hotel The Golden Gate like you did. I believe I remember you saying the room didn't even have enough space for a night stand.

A little history about the Golden Gate, it had the first phone in Vegas and its telephone number was "1".

Ooooh....[i]ad hominem[i/] attacks.

And if you bothered to PAY ATTENTION (something you do little of), you would have known that was a last minute trip (something many people do when balancing work and fun).

Face it...admit that your hotel idea SUCKS and move on. You clearly cannot finance it and you cannot con anyone else into ponying up for your failure of a pipe dream. LET IT GO!

Other than your knowledge of the Golden Gate Hotel what is the source of your alleged expertise on the Vegas hotel industry?

I cannot speak to Michelle's level of knowledge, but your poker-only hotel idea does reek.

I base my opinion that on 25+ years as a gaming lawyer in Nevada, including serving as a general counsel for a few years to a hotel casino on the Strip..... plus, additional operating and legal experience in the poker industry, both land-based and online internationally.

I am not claiming to be an expert, but know enough to evaluate your proposed poker-only hotel casino concept. I think the WWE proposal for the Debbie Reynolds property had better legs than your nonsensically narrow poker-only model.

You don’t need a physics degree to know what will happen if you jump in front of a train

You’re closely tied in with and have financially benefitted from likely competitors. Your conflict of interest opinion has been noted.

I have further duly noted your notation, and will continue to monitor and document the possible ethics violations perpetrated in the thread. Personally, I have never even been to Vegas, but I did enjoy the television program, ‘Las Vegas’, starring James Caan. It jumped the shark, so to speak, when he left the show and was replaced by Tom Selleck.

Above statement has been reviewed and certified as pretty funny.

Another swing and miss by WRT.

I do not represent any Nevada hotel casinos nor have any interest in any. Other than getting free parking on my MGM MLife card, and similar rewards from cards from some other operators, (I think I got a free ice cream cone from SouthPoint once);I receive zero benefits from any of them.

Ted's terrible 'poker only" hotel casino concept has no competitors, it is uniquely Ted's proposal. In that sense, it likely will NEVER have any competitors.

Maybe Ted should sponsor an ICO for TedCoin tokens to raise funds for his proposal ? Someone has already created a TedCoin contract, for TEDC, maybe he can buy it up, https://etherscan.io/address/0x77c19...ddce1cb394192f and launch his dream .... or maybe he is just not confident in his proposal ?

Maybe not now, but it looks like you made made some money from a strip hotel in the past.

I'm just pointing out that there is the possibility of a conflict of interest since you have had a multi-year relationship with a strip hotel that might not like another hotel coming along, especially if it had a poker room.

That argument would possibly make sense if strip hotel poker rooms weren't being closed left and right as hotel operators realize poker rooms, per square foot, aren't contributing enough to the bottom line.

Aside from the big ones, like Aria, Bellagio, Wynn, Venetian and maybe Caesars, many other hotels have closed their poker rooms because they could never grow past a few tables of 1/2 to 2/3-ish stakes, which is far less profitable than just having a bank of slot machines.

So Ted I doubt the average random strip hotel casino would care less about your new "poker only" hotel.

You know nothing about "conflicts of interest", however familiar you may be with Las Vegas hotels .....

"NOT NOW" is a pretty important analytic factor, plus the ownership of my former client changed years ago. Also, they did not have a poker room open at the time.

You think anyone who has had any relationship to any Las Vegas hotel operator EVER, has a conflict of interest in commenting on your proposal.

In reality. I doubt ANY current Las Vegas operator on the Strip would worry for 1 second over possible business competition from your dream of a poker-only hotel opening up.

Good luck in your efforts, better get an NDA from everyone who reads your posts.

Have you noticed that the mainstream media has stolen the phrase "Hotel"?

Please tell me how many sold-out comedy shows your reviewers and certifiers have done – with a complete, annotated summary of their experience on stage as an opener, middle act and headliner – before providing any opinion on what is funny.

He has a good point here. After all, any hotel that hold must totally suck.

how bout a Las Vegas themed hotel? call it the LV, aka Lady Velvet. bring soul to the strip and clean up .

There are more blackjack players than poker players. How about a blackjack-themed hotel?