Ted, if this were a profitable idea, how many cash game tables would you expect to see running around 6pm on a Wednesday? Do you believe that someone is capable of evaluating your idea without being able to give a reasonable estimate of the answer to that question?

Only two things left ITT

People tapping the fish tank, and the fish.

Don't tap the tank.

Well read indeed, I think the TED lectures were named after him.

For your part, Ted can receive pms on 2+2, and he may be tired of waiting for Matt and Ben to call ......so how much equity are you looking to buy?

I've already said only a few people have the power and resources to make this happen, and I'm not one of them. But you never know, some of the ideas in this thread might spark some interest from the people with the clout.

If not, then I guess the status quo will continue and we'll just have to stand by and watch as live Vegas poker slowly declines every year much like slot machine usage.

Thanks

I think a great way to keep slot machine play from declining is to get some Hollywood megastar who loves slot machines to buy the Lucky Dragon and fill it with new, fun slot machines that pay 110%-120% with the occasional big jackpot. Throw in cheap rooms and generous food comps and it’s guaranteed to be a hit. Can somebody get Oprah on the phone? People would stay there to watch her and Gayle play some Wheel Of Fortune Megabucks.

it's all about design. with good lighting, shaped hallways and exciting viewing angles near the elevator, the rest of the building could be generic. of the main strip hotels cosmo is the only one that is great.

Showing the Playboy Channel on some of the TV's would bring 'em in for sure.

sounds like Ted is done with this idea

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Some casinos already have free buffet advertisements to draw in the masses, whoever does this has to take it to the next level. Like, free trips to the moon for instance.

Yes this is the most important. Maybe the elevators could be in the shape of an automatic card shuffler and the rooms can be named after all of the cards. Then you have a bar with liquor in the front of the building, the rooms in the middle and then there can be some poker in the back.

Saying there should be a "Poker-Themed" hotel in Vegas is no different than saying there should be a "Craps", "Roulette", "Blackjack", "Sportsbook" themed hotel.

Rather than theme a specific gaming type, I think Vegas made the right decision to theme Italy, Paris, Greece, Pirates, Egypt, Tropics, Brazil, Hollywood, etc. etc.

Vegas has been moving away from themed casinos and there has been some de-theming, where the theme isn't completely removed, but is diminished.

Instead of a poker-themed hotel, I think an existing casino without an Asian theme should create an Asian-themed poker room. Give it a possibly racist name, like the Ah Rin Poker Room.

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I think there is a big difference between poker and the other games, and that difference can be demonstrated by the fact that there have been countless poker TV shows and poker themed movies over the last 15 years while the only major TV show or movie I can think of centered around the other games you mentioned was the movie "21".

Poker is stagnant if not declining right now. Many of the Strip casinos have closed their poker rooms altogether, with most of the action taking place at the top 4 or 5 venues (Aria, Bellagio, Wynn, Venetian to name a few).

No investor in their right mind would contribute the millions of equity necessary to finance the construction/renovation of a poker-themed hotel in the current market.

In fact based on your logic about movies, investors would be better off making a Star Wars themed hotel.

Can't argue with that argument.

If Ted can't think of it; it never existed and the specific game themed dream lives on !!!!

Non "poker-specific" or even game specific Las Vegas movies include

The Hangover
The Hangover 3
Oceans 11
Oceans 13,
Looney Tunes, Back in Action
Think Like a Man 2

(I'd have bet large Well Read Ted at least would have thought of Paul Blart, Mall Cop 2.)

The Hilton had a Star Trek themed activity for a while.

The TI has a Marvel comics themed activity currently, I think.

The WWE-themed hotel did not fare well, despite decent entertainment ratings for their PPV content.

The Bingo-themed Bingo Palace dropped the theme, re-branded as Palace Station and grew into a huge, multi-property Stations brand. For that matter, Stations never tried to build a themed hotel from the UFC, which the same family owned.

The genius of Las Vegas is knowing the difference between "events" and the casino industry. Ted simply doesn't get that at all. Casinos/Las Vegas venues host events, they don't marry them and change their name for a weekend fling.

Even "celebrity-themed" casinos drop those references, even if they do not re-brand....Planet Hollywood did not fare well and was bought by Caesars, san celebrities from the early 1990s.

Why the f**k isn't there a "boxing" theme hotel ? .... because boxing, even with Floyd Mayweather and a huge draw when it comes to town, is an event, not the basis for a themed hotel casino

Ummmm, yeah. That seems like a given.

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Gotta love Ted...when shown he is FOS, he tries to shift the focus from Vegas (where his proposed hotel was to have been located) to one somewhere else NOT in Las Vegas (where the market is saturated).

And that also has casino games.

Bicycle Hotel and Casino has 185 poker tables, zero slots,, zero roulette tables and 0 craps tables. Does have blackjack. I have a feeling people stay there mostly for the poker.

They have a lot more than just blackjack as far as the pit games go...but why would you let facts get in the way since you ignored them through the rest of your fanciful flight of delusion.