S&G reader Jeff_in_OKC paid a visit to United Coin‘s “Trailer Station” at Skinny Dugan’s Pub this week and files the following report from the scene of the (in)action:
I lost one of the five dollars I invested. Lisa kept winning while trying to lose. She was apologetic about being up eight dollars on a five-dollar input. Joe [the attendant] said “Don’t apologize. That’s what I’m here for.” She got it down to four dollars profit when we had to leave for the airport. Funny thing, Joe was kinda unsure about our true motive for being there. He said we were the first paying customers he had ever seen in several times in the barrel. We think he may have thought we were Gaming Control Board agents secretly checking him out. He was very nice, however, and I can’t compliment him enough.
Believe me, Jeff and Lisa know a lot more about what was (or rather, wasn’t) going down at Skinny’s that the NGCB, which doesn’t keep track of “Trailer Stations.” That seems odd but the board is so undermanned these days — thank you, governors Bob Miller, Kenny Guinn and Jim Gibbons — that it’s got more than enough on its plate without following United Coin’s casino-on-wheels, too.
That’s Joe in the picture, by the way.
“but the board is so undermanned these days — thank you, governors Bob Miller, Kenny Guinn and Jim Gibbons — that it’s got more than enough on its plate without following United Coin’s casino-on-wheels, too.”
– Question: Has that politician’s suggestion that the Nevada board be given the task of regulating any legalized US federal online gambling gone anywhere, or was it too silly to even be considered?
It’s still bouncing around. Rep. Shelley Berkley’s proposal for a one-year federally funded study of Internet gambling has quietly disappeared, though. The big fellas on the Strip are getting antsy (desperate?) for their piece of the action and I don’t think they’d sit still for a year-long moratorium when repeal of UIGEA is within their grasp.
And, yes, considering that the budget-challenged Control Board is having to cut back on the frequency of casino audits, the notion of it riding herd on the whole Internet is “silly” indeed.
I’d love to visit one of these legally-mandated once-a-year (?) trailer casinos. Is there any way of finding out in advance when one will pop up? I think it would be great to make a regular party of it with LVA folks, i.e. “Next trailer casino will be at the old Castaways site, June 26th. Be there or be L-7!”.
VegasHappensHere.com, on its L-hand column, keeps a running tally of “trailer stations,” when and where they’ll be held. As of today (6/15/10), the next ones will be held upon the charred embers of the Moulin Rouge (July 6; 840 W. Bonanza Rd.) and at the empty lot that used to hold the notorious Queen of Hearts motel (TBA; 19 E. Lewis Ave.) downtown.