Archive for March 2007

House Wins?

Here’s something to think about:

Resident basketball somebody LeBron James is in the process of having a really big house built for him…you can read about it here

So we’ve all seen unnecessarily big houses that belong to famous people, with big pools, theaters and such, but what caught my attention was the fact that he’s going to have a casino on his property…this is weird for one of two reasons (possibly both)”

1. The casino will be open to the public, in which case he is going to have people who he doesn’t know coming onto his property (which, according to the article, isn’t really that big).  He may as well go to a regular casino, which would defeat the purpose of having one on his property in the first place.  Then there’s

2. If the casino is not open to the public, and it is just for his use and for the use of his friends, then how much fun will it be to LOSE MONEY at your own casino?…or how about the other way around: If he happens to ‘win big’, then where does the money come from?  If it’s just going to be a bunch of games with no money involved, then that defeats the purpose of having a casino on his property in the first place.

Then again, I’m not painfully rich like LeBron James, so maybe there’s something I’m missing…am I overthinking this?…if you were really rich, what would be your rationale for having a casino on your property?

E.