Spearmaster wrote:
ANYHOW… why in the world would Vegas land-based operators need to worry about the presence of the online operators, who are surely helping them to increase their land-based revenues?
They don’t need to worry about them, but that is different than them deciding they’d like to take over the market. With such a large number of gamblers in the US, they’d have a nice opportunity to do that… and it’s better to make that move while the US comprises so much of the market.
I don’t think this general scenerio is likely, either. I do think the motive is there… I just don’t think things could be orchestrated that well… with the internet being a series of tubes and all – according to US lawmakers.