Monthly Archives: February 2017

Pennsylvania casino fined $25k after Oliver Reed’s ghost pops in

A Pennsylvania casino has been hit with a $25k fine for letting a customer gamble despite supplying him with an Oliver Reed-worthy drinks order.

This week, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board publicly rebuked the operator of the Mount Airy Casino Resort for allowing a drunk customer to continue to play table top slots machines installed at the bar at which he was imbibing.

The Board had harsh words for Mount Airy staff, who the board claimed served the customer 27 rum-and-cokes over a nine-hour period last October 7. The Board found it particularly alarming that the last 18 of these cocktails came after the unidentified cirrhosis candidate was already displaying “signs consistent with intoxication.”

Three separate bartenders served the visibly drunk man, who eventually fell off his bar stool, then resisted casino security’s attempts to put him in an ambulance. State police were called but the man resisted arrest, landing him in County Prison for the night.

Silver Heritage delays new Nepal casino’s soft opening

Australia-listed casino operator Silver Heritage Group says it is delaying the opening of its new casino in Nepal due to difficulty raising the financing needed for the venue’s completion.

Last October, Silver Heritage announced that its in-development Tiger Palace Resort in Bhairahawa on Nepal’s southern border with India would have its soft opening in February 2017. On Wednesday, Silver Heritage filed a notice with the Australian Stock Exchange indicating that the project was “encountering temporary unexpected delays.”

The company said the delays were principally due to “a shortage of liquidity in Nepal Banking System” and unanticipated delays in getting approval to increase the equity ceiling of its Nepal corporate investment vehicle “to allow remittance of capital into Nepal” to fund the new resort’s construction costs.

Silver Heritage said the lack of funds has resulted in “a slowdown in on-site activity” but said work on the project was ongoing. The company offered no revised timeline for the resort’s soft opening, only that it was assessing the impact of the delays on the final project costs, a task it expects to take several weeks. The company promised to update the market about any new developments as soon as practicable.

The Super Bowl LI betting strategy

I’ve been giving this a lot of thought. There’s a handful of spreadsheets that have shown some expected data, and nothing really stood out to me. After New England slept walk through the AFC side of the playoffs, and Atlanta eviscerated Seattle and Green Bay, we basically knew what we were in for. These are definitely worthy contenders, and that makes it very difficult to develop a Super Bowl LI betting strategy.

The Patriots are currently favored by -3.0 points and I truthfully don’t expect that line to change all that much. The heaviest money will come in over the weekend, but the fact that this line hasn’t really shifted all that much speaks volumes about how well the oddsmakers have done here. In most cases, we’re seeing a 50-50 split. In others, there’s a 66-33 split in favor of the Patriots. It just depends which book you look at.

That makes a ton of sense. Mike McCarthy said it perfectly when he called the Atlanta Falcons a buzz saw. Their ability to score points seemingly at will is incredible to watch. But then again, these are the New England Goddamn Patriots we’re talking about here.

It’s time for the deep dive, folks. Strap in.