Archive for July, 2010

The Trump Plaza Hotel and Caesars Atlantic City casinos were closed for a few days due to air conditioning failures. The Caesars casino was closed from July 15 to the morning of July 17. The Trump casino closed on the 15th and would not be open again until July 18 in the middle of the afternoon.

The air conditioning failures were caused by leaking pipes at a nearby Pepco Energy Services plant outside of Atlantic City. Pepco works to handle a plant that is used to get cooling systems at these two casinos to work.

Temporary air conditioning systems will be used in these casinos until the problem is fixed. It is estimated that it will take at least four weeks for the problem to be repaired by Pepco.

The two casinos have not stated what their potential losses from the closures would be. However, it is estimated that the losses will be worth millions of dollars. The reopening of the Caesars casino drew less than expected crowds due to the partial operation of the air conditioning unit in the casino.

This is the first time these casinos were closed since the three-day state government closing of casinos back in 2006.

Isle of Capri Casinos and Argosy Gaming both introduced proposals to the town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri for a new casino. City officials have stated that they are leaning towards the proposal presented by Isle of Capri.

The Isle of Capri proposal states that a casino would open on the riverfront of Cape Girardeau. This area would be built along fifteen acres of property that has not been developed on. A 750-seat center for special events would also be opened on the site. Isle of Capri states that about four hundred new jobs would be created if their proposal was accepted.

City officials have been concerned with regards to how the Argosy proposal was not very specific. St. Louis Capital Partners, which made a proposal before these two new ones were posted, was not very specific. Officials are asking for St. Louis Capital Partners and Argosy to provide more details on what is going on with their plans.

The casino would be the only casino in Cape Girardeau if it was developed. It would take over the only open casino license in the state. This license was opened for potential developers after the President Casino closed down in St. Louis.

The Seminole tribe’s Florida casinos will begin offer all-day table poker games beginning on July 1. This new opening was made possible by a legislation that was passed by the Florida Legislature and the Seminole Tribal Council.

The six casinos that the tribe owns, including the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino locations in Tampa and Hollywood, have had poker tables for years. However, the hours for these tables were limited. On July 1 the poker tables at these locations along with the second Hollywood casino and the ones in Brighton, Coconut Creek and Immokalee will be open all day long.

A series of new poker table rules were also introduced as a means of increasing the stakes of games. The original $100 maximum buy-in that was used for no-limit poker games has been removed. The maximum bet of $5 per round in a limit game has also been removed. All buy-ins for poker tournaments at these casinos will not have to deal with any limits either. The limit of $1000 for a buy-in for a tournament will be removed.

The Seminole tribe states that this twenty-four hour poker service will be open on all 1,360 poker table seats that it has at all six of its casinos.