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ligui
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Loreto Casino
http://www.zonaconcho.com/2013/11/resucita-el-tema-de-la-ape...
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capt. mike
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since when did MX legalize gambling? other than paramutual sports books like Caliente for horse racing etc.?
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bajagrouper
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I am on the mainland and there are casinos form Nogales to Chetumal......
I hear the whales song
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BajaBlanca
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When I was in La Paza. A Few weeks ago, we ate lunch at a casino that was rocking....I too did not realize they existed here in Baja.
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tripledigitken
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San Nicholas Hotel and Casino in Ensenada is the only one I am aware of in Baja.
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Howard
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Just what we need, somewhere for the local population to spend their hard earned money. In my opinion exploiting the locals is a very bad idea.
I wonder if they will have to wade through the leaking sewer water to get in?
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
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Mula
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I understood that certain municipalities allowed Casinos and others did not.
Mulege, Loreto, Comondu do not have Casinos and I am not sure about The Cabos.
Also in LaPaz Time Shares are not allowed, but in Loreto and the Cabos they are.
Has to do with the charters for the areas. I think.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
since when did MX legalize gambling? other than paramutual sports books like Caliente for horse racing etc.? |
Hi Mike,
Lots of gambling still going on in Baja and all of mainland Mexico. When you lived in Mulege at the Serinadad, you must have bet at a c-ckfight,
boxing match, .... or bet on Jai Alai in major cities, plus horse and greyhound racing. Also with the American-style scratch-off cards, which are
quite common. Some of this gambling is indeed illegal, but there are ways around it...like applying for a temporary permit, etc. Money talks.
Over the last 3 and more decades, I've been invited to several horseraces, boxing matches, and c-ckfights around Sta. Rosalia & Mulege. The
betting is quite heavy at some of these events when the more prosperous get bit by the gambling bug - large dollar and peso bills rule the play.
There are all levels of betting, however, and everyone gets in on the action...amid a lot of genuine good fun. c-ckfights...pelea de gallos.. and
horse races are highly popular around Mulege and all of Baja.
Casinos, like the one proposed in Loreto, might be a little different animal. It would take a much harder permit than the other sports action. Good
or Bad, it's another gamble.
Historically, there was much more gambling in the high population border towns years ago. Colorful characters like Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone, The
Border Barons, the governor of Baja, etc were involved with sites like Agua Caliente Casino and a few other gambling enterprises.
The legends of Baja gambling make for great reading. (The story that it was Capone who built a small casino on an island just off the coast of Tijuana
is almost certainly doubtful, although many Mexicans and US writers believe it true.)
In the sixties I gambled at the Princessa Hotel in Acapulco....next to where the cliff divers performed. Also was the first time I lost pesos at a
local Jai Alai match.
Now if they would only open a few Texas Hold-em games. 
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greengoes
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Howard
Just what we need, somewhere for the local population to spend their hard earned money. In my opinion exploiting the locals is a very bad idea.
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Five or six are in Ensenada, two of which were recently built. A lot of dinero was spent on them, no sewer pipes in front.
The games are all electronic slots, no table games and probably have worse odds than the 10% mortgage rate Mexicans pay.
Cartel money...maybe....safe to say they are connected.
The casinos will suck the pesos from the people least able to afford it just as Telcel does.
They have sports betting too.
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Bajahowodd
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Exactly. No table games. Just like the Indian casinos in the states. Is Hank behind this one?
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Loretana
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Carlos Slim will have something to say about this! ( I hope!) 
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-Nikola Tesla
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bajario
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Every casino in Valley Center and San Diego have table games.
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Pescador
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There are at least 5 if not 6 casinos in Tijuana, 3 or 4 in Ensenada, and La Paz has 3 or more so it would only stand to reason that Loreto would be
looking at one. I think I am safe in San Bruno since we have a problem just keeping a hot dog stand open on a regular basis. Ah, Life in a small
Pueblo.
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rhintransit
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the locals, or some of them here, spent a lot of time last spring/summer collecting signatures against this thing. many hope this never comes to
pass, but who knows
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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bajabuddha
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Boy Howdy, i'll never forget my first c-ckfight experience in Mulege... I WAS SORE FOR A WEEK !! 
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ratoblanco
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BOoooo Hisss, that would the worst thing for this place, imagine the disrespectful droves of americans coming down to use loreto as their own toilet
paper, someone please say it aint so.
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paranewbi
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New one in San Felipe down the street from Georges hotel and across from EL Capitan hotel...boom boxes out front, nice car once in a while parked but
no sign of the regular town folk blowing their pesos there.
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Loretana
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originally posted by paranewbi....."nice car once in a while parked but no sign of the regular town folk blowing their pesos there."
The regular town folks in Loreto have NO EXTRA MONEY to blow, and I really doubt the wealthy in town will have much use for a Casino, either.
It's kind of a moot point.....and no one I've talked to thinks it stands a "snowball's chance in hell" of happening.......
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LaTijereta
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It would be great if they just kept the place "Ceasar's", like it was back in the 80's.. Some good times and food..
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajario
Every casino in Valley Center and San Diego have table games. |
Electronic? Or is there an actual dealer shooting out cards?
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