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View Poll Results: If casino gambling is ever legalized in Texas where should the first casino be located
Uptown Houston 1 4.35%
Galveston 14 60.87%
Other Houston location 3 13.04%
Some Houston suburb. Like The Woodlands , Sugarland, Katy, Clear Lake ect 1 4.35%
Keep casino gambling out of Texas altogether 4 17.39%
Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-20-2024, 10:47 PM
 
Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
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Put it in Austin. Maybe our Politicians will gamble away their own money instead of ours!
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Old 04-21-2024, 06:08 AM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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Put it in Austin. Maybe our Politicians will gamble away their own money instead of ours!
It will still be ours. Their paycheck come from our taxes
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Old 04-22-2024, 12:07 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Put it in Austin. Maybe our Politicians will gamble away their own money instead of ours!
Plus our legislature only meets every other year anyway. I doubt the Governor or the Luetinent Governor
are into casino gambling.

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It will still be ours. Their paycheck come from our taxes
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Old 04-22-2024, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Sunnybrook Farm
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Reno, Nevada.
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Old 04-22-2024, 02:58 PM
 
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What’s the point of making casinos illegal when 5 miles outside of Texas we have casinos?
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Old 04-23-2024, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Houston
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What’s the point of making casinos illegal when 5 miles outside of Texas we have casinos?
Ask our Lt. Governor.
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Old 04-23-2024, 02:11 PM
 
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Would be great for rodeo season for sure
It's easily the best spot IMO - centralized and adjacent to other entertainment. The rehab costs would be insane. With that said, the payoff for whoever took the leap could be huge and unless I'm missing something it has the potential to be the largest casino in the country.

Doing something like that would require the Texans and the Rodeo to completely re-imagine what NRG Park can be and buy into a completely different future. I personally think NRG Park has a lot of untapped potential that's mostly limited by imagination and money, but casino operators tend to have plenty of both.

If casino gambling in Texas was to happen, not at least exploring the Astrodome as a casino site would be a huge missed opportunity.
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Old 04-23-2024, 02:51 PM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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It's easily the best spot IMO - centralized and adjacent to other entertainment. The rehab costs would be insane. With that said, the payoff for whoever took the leap could be huge and unless I'm missing something it has the potential to be the largest casino in the country.

Doing something like that would require the Texans and the Rodeo to completely re-imagine what NRG Park can be and buy into a completely different future. I personally think NRG Park has a lot of untapped potential that's mostly limited by imagination and money, but casino operators tend to have plenty of both.

If casino gambling in Texas was to happen, not at least exploring the Astrodome as a casino site would be a huge missed opportunity.
Astrodome, Uptown, the Convention District, and Galveston are easily the 4 best options imo. Each have their own appeal. I could see a Woodlands Waterway working in theory but we all know they don’t want that ish there.
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Old 04-23-2024, 03:25 PM
 
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People need to get over the Astrodome
I bet it costs $100k of dollars every month just to keep that place from falling apart
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Old 04-23-2024, 03:26 PM
 
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Astrodome, Uptown, the Convention District, and Galveston are easily the 4 best options imo. Each have their own appeal. I could see a Woodlands Waterway working in theory but we all know they don’t want that ish there.
Uptown is interesting because I feel like the residents really wouldn't want a casino over there either. But, the Fertitta factor may make that viable where it otherwise may not be.

The Convention District I could see, but I can't see a casino in that area having the scale of something like what you could do in Uptown (or obviously the Astrodome). They would definitely have plenty of customers though.

Galveston I think is a no-brainer, but only after something in Houston proper. I agree with the opinion that you'd make more money in Houston than Galveston, but a Galveston site would have the effect of enhancing everything else Fertitta has going on down there (assuming he would indeed be the guy to make these investments).
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