Online Casinos with Offline presence?

[zman]

Hey all.

Just curious how many casinos online have a offline casino in the same name in Vegas that are owned and operated by the same people.

[bb28]

I don't think you are going to find any at this point in time because of the legality of it not being settled in the US.

[Simmo!]

Yep...99.9999% positive it's zero, especially with Nevada being one of the "banned States". However I think (before my time) there was one Vegas casino that dabbled for a while. Sure some other members will know for sure.

[jetset]

MGM Mirage had a go through an Isle of Man licensed company, but abandoned the project ostensibly due to too much red tape.

Terry Lanni was still in favour of US companies being strictly licensed and regulated to conduct online gambling operations last I heard, and the AGA claims to be "neutral" on the subject, supporting rather a proposal by a Nevada politician to conduct a comprehensive and independent study of all the factors involved in Internet gambling, including technological capability to exclude underage and problem gamblers.

One of Sol Kerzner's oufits also had a brief dabble when he was still involved in the Bahamas, if memory serves me correctly.

Edited to add that Sheldon Adelson at the Las Vegas Sands group has a UK-registered initiative to launch an online gambling operation in Europe ongoing at present (see Casinomeister News)

[Simmo!]

Edited to add that Sheldon Adelson at the Las Vegas Sands group has a UK-registered initiative to launch an online gambling operation in Europe ongoing at present (see Casinomeister News)

Which I guess logically might explain why the "Sands Of The Caribbean" changed their name to CSCasino recenly.