MotorCity Casino Issues
Slot Club Cards
- /Detroit News/ - DETROIT, MI – MotorCity
Casino has become the first gambling hall in the Metro
Detroit market and the first among Mandalay Resort Group's
15 U.S. casinos to roll out a new convenience for line-averse
patrons.
Consumers
will have access to cards enabling them to tap into their
slot-club cash rebates while at their gaming machines,
thus avoiding lines at the club booth. Slot clubs are
akin to airlines' frequent flier programs. Gamblers accumulate
points redeemable for cash back.
The
Point Play program began Jan. 6. About 15,000 of the 400,000
active members of MotorCity's
slot group, called Club Metro, have enrolled in and activated
Point Play. On Point Play's first day, gamblers redeemed
$3,850 at the slot machines. Previously,
gamblers had to visit one of two Club Metro booths at
MotorCity, which has four gaming floors.
Through
Point Play, patrons sitting at the machines may either
gamble the money accumulated in their slot-club accounts,
or cash out the credits that they receive in the form
of tokens redeemable for cash.
Wyoming Tribe Presents
Casino Plans
- WASHINGTON, D. C. - Northern Arapaho Indian Tribe officials
agreed on Jan. 14 to provide U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.,
with the details of their plan to establish a casino on
the Wind River Indian Reservation. The decision to hand
over the information is part of the tribe's effort to
stop the senator's plans to at least temporarily block
the casino with an amendment to a wide-ranging spending
bill.
Before
the tribe can go forward with their plans, they must receive
the Interior Secretary Gale Norton's approval. Enzi is
considering sponsoring an amendment that would prohibit
Norton from approving any state-tribe class III gaming
compact without the state's approval. The tribal leaders
also agreed to give Enzi information on their economic
development plans that are not connected to gambling.
Enzi
has been a strong opponent of both Indian and non-Indian
gambling, and even if he does not offer the amendment,
his stance is not likely to change. He said gambling is
"an economic development mirage." In case they
are unable to convince Enzi to hold off on his amendment,
tribal officials are working to drum up opposition to
it among his fellow senators.