Horseshit Roundup: Uno Casino Game, IRS Threshold Raised, A’s Construction Forges Ahead

By Scott Roeben, on July 15 2025
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So much horseshit, so little time!

There’s a lot of Vegas-related chatter happening, as always, but recently there’s been a higher concentration of nonsense than usual.

We are here to provide the usual superficial, poorly-researched answers to all your questions related to the tsunami of WTF in the Vegassphere recently.

See what we did there?

Despite a crazy number of otherwise reliable news outlets (and quite a few unreliable ones) reporting this, Uno isn’t being introduced as a casino table game.

This nutty false story is the mutation of a real thing. Palms casino rethemed one of its suites into an Uno Social Lounge.

Sloppy reporting and an unfamiliarity with casinos and gambling led many news outlets to believe Uno was actually being played in the casino.

The rumor spread so quickly, even Uno was forced to address it. Here’s the official quashing post on Facebook.

How can something so fun have social media that’s so boring? (Looking at you, casinos.)

The best part of this wild B.S. story is we get to re-share how we made Uno into a sex game more brand-appropriate for Las Vegas.

This needs to be a thing.

Second horseshit story!

No, the IRS reporting threshold for slot winnings hasn’t been raised.

This one’s caused quite the kerfuffle online, where all great kerfuffles happen.

It’s being reported the tax reporting threshold (where casinos are obligated to issue W-2G forms) was increased in the “Big B.S. Bill” signed into law recently.

The problem is that didn’t actually happen. Confusion abounds, and here’s a story that covers the crossed wires pretty well so we don’t have to spend time writing it.

The issue has become a quagmire because the American Gaming Assn. says the threshold has been raised. Which it hasn’t. Awkward.

The crux of the journalistic misfiring involves this language in the law.

Of all the things you skim on the Internet today, this should be one of that.

Exciting, right? There are people who read and write and interpret this crap all day!

Anyway, the confusion is presumably related to the threshold for 1099s being increased in 2026. The W-2G reporting is an entirely different part of the tax code.

The American Gaming Assn. wants the threshold to be increased for its members, but that doesn’t mean it has happened, or will.

The reality is gamblers don’t report winnings unless it’s reported to the IRS by casinos via W-2Gs. This whole process costs casinos a lot of time and money, so they’re dying for the threshold to be increased, but the tax revenue lost would be astronomical.

So, good luck with that.

Item three on our list of Las Vegas-related horseshit: Construction of the A’s ballpark is “forging ahead.”

Our local paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, now the Official Publicist of the Sacramento A’s (see below), continues to churn out stories about how much progress is being made on the Tropicana site.

The latest headline trumpets: “A’s Ballpark Site Work Forges Ahead After June’s Groundbreaking Ceremony.”

The story then goes on to list specifics of the serious construction happening on the site.

Sigh.

The awkward truth, however, is buried in the story when it should be the lede: “The Athletics are also working toward finalizing their development agreement with Clark County and setting the guaranteed maximum price for their stadium.”

Construction can’t and won’t begin in earnest until these things happen.

There’s also the minor matter of a $1 billion funding shortfall. No, really.

The A’s have the Review-Journal, we have A.I. LFG.

Las Vegas has seen some debacles in its day, but nothing approaches the A’s saga.

The ballpark would cost north of $2 billion. The A’s have $350 million in public funding, a $300 million construction loan, $100 million from Aramark (the concession partner) and a rumored $70 million investment from a group including BTS singer Suga and MLB star Chan Ho Park.

But at least the A’s won’t have to pay for infrastructure on the site because Bally’s Corp. is supposed to build a resort on the site. We almost typed that sentence with a straight face. Bally’s Corp. has no resources to build anything, so that means the cost of any ballpark would go up many, many more millions.

The upshot of all this is the A’s ballpark isn’t being built on the Trop site, despite all the “experts” claiming otherwise because look at all the things happening on the construction site!

Where is the resort supposed to go, again?

It’s all just pushing dirt around. Why? For show. To give the illusion of progress so investors will be champing at the bit to throw money at this trainwreck.

That’s all the horseshit that’s fit to print at the moment, but trust us, there’s more to come. It’s Las Vegas.

Update (7/18/25): The brouhaha about the ambiguous tax threshold law for gamblers continues.