In April 2021, Fremont Street Experience published an article about the best blackjack in Downtown Las Vegas. Much of the information from an unnamed local blackjack insider was inaccurate. This leads me to three possible scenarios: Fremont Street Experience plagiarized our outdated content, they were attempting to scam Las Vegas visitors, or they were snitching on an illegal gaming operation.
Fremont Street Experience plagiarized our content
The biggest glare in the now-removed article was the claim that Main Street Station was dealing blackjack. With a closer look, we recognized that the blackjack information was our own, but it was from 2018.
An update from one of our most recent articles about Circa was also included. The information stated about Circa could be discovered by others, but it would require a visit to ALL the downtown casinos. The article ONLY covered the best blackjack in casinos under the Fremont Street Experience brand.
We approached Fremont Street Experience about the plagiarized content. The initial response was the removal of said article.
This initial reaction seemed to us like an admission of guilt. I know I don’t have a habit of deleting true statements I can back up. These series of coincidences lead me to believe that Fremont Street Experience plagiarized our content, but I suppose there are other possibilities.
Are they scammers?
If they were not plagiarizing our content, then maybe they were attempting to scam Las Vegas visitors. A good old ‘bait and switch’ campaign!
“Come to Downtown Las Vegas and play $3 blackjack! Oh wait, did we forget to mention you need a time machine to play? Go back to 2018 and play our $3 blackjack games. Don’t have a time machine? Guess you’ll have to play our $10 games instead” is how it read to anyone familiar with how outdated their information was.
That sounds like a pretty sketchy campaign to me. Oh, did I mention that they forgot three Downtown casinos in their campaign? Even though they make the top five best blackjack games in downtown Las Vegas, it sure seems a little scammy to me.
Or maybe Fremont Street Experience was exposing an illegal gaming operation
If, however, the lawyer is correct and they did their own research, the results are even more concerning! If the media company was correct, then the Nevada Gaming Control Board should be taking this information seriously!
Main Street Station was knowingly dealing unlicensed blackjack games, according to the Fremont Street Experience article, as it was closed due to the pandemic at the time the article was published. No wonder the blackjack expert wanted to go unnamed.
The COVID testing tent must have been an illegal gaming operation. The Hawaiians, who were getting COVID tests to go back to the island, were able to play blackjack while waiting for their results? Why were the rest of us not invited to play $5 blackjack? Under NRS 463.0129, they must.
Hopefully, Gaming quickly takes this whistleblower from Fremont Street Experience’s content creation company seriously. Las Vegas should be aghast that illegal gaming is taking away from the state and city’s gaming revenue! If it was not true, I don’t believe that the lawyer representing Fremont Street Experience would have said “The content you reference was researched by FSE’s marketing vendor and created solely by them.”
The gaslighting has me confused on which situation could possibly be true. So, we will leave the reader to decide whether they are plagiarists, scammers or narcs. We started a Twitter poll in this thread where you can vote for your answer.
Here are the results so far:
Letter we received from Fremont Street Experience lawyer:
