JR from 'Dallas' coming as part of oil well giveaway
But if he's really in character, he'll try to take the oil well away from the winner...
Larry Hagman, who played conniving JR Ewing on the TV show
On Nov. 22, the casino will give away an oil well that produces two to five barrels per day.
"Everybody is giving away gas cards these days. But anybody can do that. We figured we’d one-up them and make a tycoon out of someone," Coconut Creek GM Steve Bonner said.
The winner of the oil well will receive a recurring revenue stream for life, he said.
"With the cost of oil at $100 a barrel, you can figure out yourself. The winner will receive thousands every month," he said. (My math: $200/day *365= $73,000 per year.)
Hagman's show ended 17 years ago (Dallas aired from 1978-91), but the casino has reached farther before, bringing in Leave it to Beaver stars. That show's first run ended 45 years ago.
Meanwhile, the casino has established a corporation with this name Take Stock in Black Gold Inc. Players Club members are all eligible to be stockholders and earn shares with every 1,000 points they earn while playing slots. The market value will be posted daily. They’ll turn their shares in each day for that market value/ free play.
Whatever happened to just a good old free-play coupon?
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
