Cuban has sold the Mavs to Adelson-Dumont Family

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What happens if the casino stuff fails to pass?

Even if it passes and the Mavs stay here, how would it work with a minority owner running the operations and spending the money of the majority owner?  The Adelsons didn’t get rich by being dummies.  There has to be protection in the documents for them to not just be Cuban’s piggy bank without any checks and balances.

They have already legalized poker rooms.

The one at Harry Hines and 635 is open 24 hours and business seems very good based on the parking lot and also me personally delivering food inside the place through Uber to poker players.

I assume Dallas was smart...and are easing their way into gambling slowly and measuring crime/homelessness due to the gambling they have allowed on a small scale.  Its also an opportunity to measure the local demand for card players.   Everyone knows there is going to be slot players.

I dont have data...but I havent heard of crime increase because of these poker houses.  But...big money has interest in casinos and can pay local law enforcement and news channels to not report on it if it wasnt too bad.  But I assume its going well thus far on a small scale and casinos are in the near future for Dallas. You could go further with this speculation and suggest thats why the Adelson's bought into the Mavs....because the 2 plus years data on poker rooms is going well and Dallas plans to move forward with the casino plans.