International Game's closest rival, the Bally Manufacturing Corporation, has a serious handicap: its own casinos compete with other equipment customers.

"The casinos also compete for your staff."

Bus riders make up a significant segment of the slot business here, and casinos compete for them by offering incentives of coins and services.

The tribes were concerned that a new casino would compete with their gambling operations.

Another reason the illegal casinos can compete, he said, is because they do not pay taxes.

From the start, since casinos couldn't compete on price or essential product, they competed on the basis of their brand names.

The casino must compete with three Detroit casino resorts which opened expanded resort-style properties in 2008.

Free drinks are common at most American casinos but not at the Canadian one, Mr. Brown said, so they will help his casino compete.

And an iconic casino in Downtown for years, simply couldn't compete, Harolds Club closed its doors four months before the Silver Legacy opened.

And because casinos would compete with horse racing and the state lottery, the state would lose tax revenues from both, he says.