Gas Prices and Gambling

[Greymalkin]

Have the increases in gas prices affected anyone's trips to the casino? I used to drive to Vegas a couple of times a month, but now I've found myself cutting back to just once per month. Has this happened to anyone else?

[Solomon]

It's affected me. I've cut out the drives to Vegas recently and instead went to some of the nearby casinos in Oklahoma. Now that I've started doing it, I kind of wonder why I didn't go to the closer casinos in the first place.

Of course, there's still something magical about Vegas.

[highrollergal]

I don't go once a month anymore to the casinos. Now I am just going once every few months. I am not going back until January after the holidays so I can make sure I have money for Christmas. I would hate to go play slots and then not have that for Christmas spending cash.

[najdoyza]

It has definately made a change in our habits. We used to love to go up to this one particular casino that has a great buffet and we'd hang out all day and play different games. But it's a 2 and a half hour drive which was hard enough for me, and now if you have to figure what that costs in gas into the overall it just makes more sense to stay on the couch and play online.

Of course that's why all the Brick and Mortar casino companies have suported the online gambling ban - behind the scenes of course. They know if we can't play online then if we want to play we have to go to them.

Harrah's Entertainment Group put over $50,000 into Senator Frist's campaign coffers cause he promised them he'd sponsor the ban. While online gaming stocks were plummeting - the ban more than tripled the price of Harrah's stock. And apparently Frist and his cronies own a bunch of it - so now they are being investigated for insider trading.

[PokerPrincess_Sandy]

Well that certainly says a lot about your politicians. It deserves him right to be investigated. Maybe if they investigate properly the ban on online gambling will be lifted as well.

As far as the gas goes... I don't have far to drive to find slots because they are all at the horse racing tracks and every month there is a bus that goes to CasinoRama for $5.00 and a free luncheon buffet so it costs us nothing to go.... WOOOHOOOO