马里兰生活赌场开业使当地居民十分兴奋

  还在几年之前,马里兰州的居民要想赌博就得在周末长途跋涉到宾夕法尼亚或者新泽西去,现在,所有这些赌徒们只需要花费一点点儿时间就可以到最先进的赌场享乐了。

  6月7日晚,位于阿伦德尔米尔斯购物中心的马里拉生活赌场将向成千上万兴奋的马里拉居民开放,马里拉还有其他的博彩设施,马里拉生活赌场之所以吸引大家的眼球是因为庞大的宣传攻势和最受争议的缘故。

  在过去的几年里,反赌组织一直在竭力阻止在阿伦德尔米尔斯购物中心开设赌场,然而他们的努力失败了,6月7日,赌场在晚22:00时首次向公众开放,有意而为的开放时间将给这个区域的夜生活带来一种新的模式。

  “这一定是很奇妙的” 宾夕法尼亚人拉姆齐.伯林说,他这一周恰好在马里兰的朋友家拜访“我记得在宾夕法尼亚第一家大赌场开业的时候,人们那是相当的兴奋,我错过了那一次开业,不过今晚在马里兰我会去体验一下新赌场的开业盛况”

  马里兰生活赌场并不是马里兰州第一家开业的赌场,有两家赌场在过去的两三年间已经开业,新赌场将是最有名的,赌场的拥护者广为宣传随着马里兰生活赌场的开业将带来更多财政收入和就业机会的观点。

  “我们需要一个经济增长点,其他两家赌场已经在这方面有所助益”彼得.桑普森说“但是马里兰生活赌场是在一个全新的水准上的,它将是其中最大的一家,也是人们一直努力争取和期待的”

  据预测马里兰赌场每年基本上可以给马里兰州带来4亿美元的财政收入,开业当晚有超过3000的老虎机在闪烁和鸣响,这个数字远远超过Ocean Downs赌场的800台和好莱坞赌场的1500台。

  3100台机器还仅仅是马里兰生活赌场初步的设置,在秋季还将增加另外1500台机器。

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  Maryland Residents Excited About Maryland Live Casino Opening

  Just a few short years ago, Maryland residents were spending their weekends traveling to Pennsylvania or New Jersey in order to get their gambling fix. Now, all those gamblers have to do is travel a few minutes and they will be in a state-of-the-art gaming facility.

  Tonight, the Maryland Live casino at the Arundel Mills mall will open to the delight of thousands of Maryland residents. While there are other gaming facilities in Maryland, Maryland Live is the one that has created the biggest hype, and also has become the most controversial.

  For the past several years, anti-gaming groups have fought hard to keep a casino from opening at Arundel Mills. Their efforts, however, have failed, and tonight the casino is set to open to the public for the first time at 10PM. The late opening will introduce a new type of nightlife to the area.

  ”It should be a fantastic crowd,” said Ramsey Berlin, a Pennsylvania resident who happened to be visiting family in Maryland this week. “I remember when the first big casino opened in Pennsylvania, people were real excited. I missed that opening, but tonight I’m gonna go check out the new casino here (in Maryland.)

  Maryland Live will not be the first gaming facility opened in Maryland, two others have opened in the past couple of years. The new casino will be the most celebrated, as casino gambling advocates have been pushing the idea of increased revenue and job creation that will occur with Maryland Live’s opening.

  ”We have needed a boost in the economy, and the other two casinos have helped,” said Peter Sampson. “But this casino is on a whole new level. This one will be the biggest of them all, and it is the one that people have been fighting for and are looking forward to.”

  Projections show that Maryland Live is expected to bring over $400 million to the state on an annual basis. Over 3,000 slot machines will be flashing and ringing at the opening this evening. That number far surpasses the Casino at Ocean Downs, which has 800 machines, and Hollywood Casino, which is home to 1,500 machines.

  The 3,100 machines is just a starting point for Maryland Live. The casino will bring in an additional 1,500 machines by the Fall.