“If the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is smart and pushes to get table games at the Plainville racino, the combination of Wynn’s high-end table game presence at Encore and a low-end table game business at Plainridge Park will put a hurting on the casinos in Rhode Island and Connecticut,” Woinski wrote. “If we were Massachusetts lawmakers, we would run, not walk, to the capital to convince anyone who would listen to give Plainridge Park live table games.”<\/p>\n
Not all are in favor of allowing Plainridge to expand its casino floor offerings.<\/p>\n
A local couple in Hopkinton who run a sound engineering firm told the House committee that their accountant stole $885,000 from them and nearly $500,000 from another business to cover his gambling debts incurred at the slots parlor. Sara Austin said their bookkeeper was “considered a VIP.”<\/p>\n
\nImagine that, the casinos allowing this to happen. The casinos courted him and I am almost certain they knew all of it was stolen money,” Austin opined. “They didn’t care, they were winning.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Austin didn’t provide specifics on her belief that the casino knew the funds were stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Plainridge Park Casino, the sole slots-only Category 2 gaming facility in Massachusetts, needs inclusion of table games to remain relevant, some state lawmakers claim. The Plainville casino was the first to open under the state’s 2011 Expanded Gaming Act. The legislation authorized three destination casino resorts in three geographically diverse regions, as well as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":109435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Plainridge Park Table Games Discussion Heats Up<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n