среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Atlantic City tries cheap lures to hook gamblers

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (AP) — While Three Dog Night was onstage at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, singing about how one is the loneliest number, Fred Shields was thinking that 10 had plenty of company: that's how many dollars his and everyone else's ticket to the concert cost.

Then when it was over, Shields and thousands of other fans hit the slot machines, table games, restaurants and bars, providing a bump of $100,000 in revenue the casino otherwise would not have had.

The concert was a prime example of a little-noticed trend in Atlantic City, the nation's second-largest gambling market, which is struggling to hold off fierce competition from casinos in other states …

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