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The Bellagio poker room has been robbed again, but this time the culprit wasn’t able to get away.
Las Vegas poker rooms are suriving COVID-19 just fine, even after Nevada's governor imposed new stringent capacity restrictions on casinos. Bellagio, much like Aria, is among the the most popular poker rooms in town. Not only that, Bellagio is the most nostalgic card room in town. Some of the highest stakes games in Vegas history have.
Authorities say that a man entered the Bellagio poker room Friday night around 9:45 p.m. with a gun and demanded cash from the cage. The alleged thief then ran out of the north casino entrance and tried to steal a getaway car from a guest using the valet.
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The carjacking was unsuccessful, however, and the bandit found himself confronted by four responding police officers.
The suspect then opened fire on the police, hitting one of the officers in his bullet-proof vest before being struck by returning fire. Both the police officer and thief were transported to a local hospital. The police officer has since been treated and released for minor injuries, while the suspect is in critical condition.
They shot him at north valet. Was out there when it happened.
— Julian Arthur Parmann (@thewh00sel) March 16, 2019
Locked down in the poker room at #bellagio which supposedly was just robbed. No one noticed anything
— Andrew Badecker (@Andrewbadecker) March 16, 2019
Going to be a long night at #Bellagio. Poker cage robbed, @LVMPD shot the robber outside, poker room on lockdown. pic.twitter.com/MgC4JijGXT
— Rick Fuller (@Gamblindude) March 16, 2019
Unreal @BellagioPoker cage got robbed again at gun point.15 minutes ago while we where playing our game scary Shit pic.twitter.com/qoZ3lHMOIS
— Eli Elezra (@elielezra1) March 16, 2019
Cached
The robbery comes just over a year after an armed man walked into the poker room in the middle of the afternoon wearing a blonde wig and glasses. That suspect was able to get away and remains at large after taking an undisclosed amount of cash and chips.
The Bellagio was also taken for $1.5 million in chips back in 2010. Anthony Carleo, a son of a Las Vegas Municipal Court judge, was ultimately arrested for the theft where he brandished a gun and wore a helmet before later fleeing on a motorcycle. Carleo was captured a couple months later after trying to sell some of his stolen chips to an undercover detective.
In January of last year, the New York-New York Casino also had its cage robbed. In November of 2017, Las Vegas police finally caught a local church pastor on his third armed robbery attempt of the M Resort Casino.
Gambling, but with smaller crowds
As many Las Vegas casinos ready themselves to reopen on Thursday, June 4, final preparations are underway to make sure the return of guests goes as smoothly as possible. On Monday, local news station KSNV got a tour of the Bellagio as one of the center pieces of the Strip gave viewers a look at the health and safety measures that have been put into place.
On the gaming floor, which is what visitors to this site are probably most interested in, every other electronic gaming machine such as slots and video poker will be turned off in an effort to keep gamblers separated as much as possible. Every other table game will also be closed.
At the table games that are open, plexiglass barriers have been installed where each person will stand. Only three players will be permitted per table. And while face masks are not required for guests walking around, they will be mandatory for those who step up to the craps and roulette tables to play. If a person does not have a mask, they will be given one.
“The health and safety of our employees and our guests is always first and foremost,” said MGM Resorts’ VP of Administration John Flynn. “But we do think if we do this together, we do it in a measured way moving forward, we think that we can get this right.”
Craps dice will be cleaned after each shooter. The dirtiest objects in the casino, chips, will be sanitized whenever they are exchanged at the cashier. Hand washing stations have also been installed across the casino floor.
Property amenities as touchless as possible
For guests who check-in to Bellagio’s hotel, room keys appear to be a thing of the past. Now, your smartphone is your room key (I’m glad I finally got a smartphone a few years ago). Guests will pull up an app and place their phone in front of the panel on the door where they would normally insert their room card. The door unlocks and while the handle still needs to be touched (bring a tissue, I guess), that’s it.
Similarly, the restaurants will have touchless menus that can be pulled up on a mobile device as well as a virtual waiting list. Both can be accessed by scanning a QR code found at the entrance of the restaurant.
Fewer tables will be open for diners and plexiglass barriers have been installed between booths.
As for the Bellagio’s famous Conservatory, visitors will not be allowed to just mull about however they would like. Instead, a more orderly line has been put in place with social distancing markers on the floor and photo-op spots labeled.
Protests won’t delay opening
In addition to the Bellagio, MGM Resorts International is opening MGM Grand and New York-New York on Thursday.
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The company is still determined to reopen on schedule, despite the protests in the wake of the horrific murder of George Floyd my a Minneapolis police officer.
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In letter to employees, MGM CEO Bill Hornbuckle said “diversity is the soul of creativity and the heart of entertainment. There is no hospitality for hatred here and we will not accept it anywhere else.”