Joe Bogdovics of Roebling, New Jersey, and his wife Debbie were in Atlantic City this week for a billiards tournament usually held at Bally’s. 2 but in recent years fell to third behind Pennsylvania. Atlantic City, where gambling began on May 26, 1978, was once No.
Nevada remains the nation’s largest gambling market. The pizza analogy is an accurate way of describing the situation facing Atlantic City: No matter how you slice it, if you don’t grow the pie, someone will go hungry.” “That is not to say that Atlantic City won’t experience some growing pains in the process. “There is a lot of reason to hope that the reintroduction of two or even three casinos to Atlantic City may be a net positive for the resort,” Rummy Pandit, a gambling and tourism expert at New Jersey’s Stockton University, said. Of course, that’s exactly what Revel’s managers said - and that casino lasted barely over two years.
The party line in Atlantic City is that the reopened casinos - particularly Hard Rock, with its proven worldwide ability to attract guests with its music-themed resorts - will grow the market and not simply siphon off business from weaker competitors.
