Atlantic City tried Prohibition once before.
It worked so well that Nucky Johnson, the legendary politician and racketeer, built a Boardwalk empire immortalized on HBO nearly a century later.

It also tried banning smoking, too. That lasted for 20 days as smokers stayed away, sending casino revenue plummeting.

But New Jersey will ban both, again, when Atlantic City's nine casinos reopen after more than three months of coronavirus-related shutdowns.

The late-night announcements from Gov.

Phil Murphy landed like a one-two punch on Atlantic City's casino industry, already reeling from lost revenue during the pandemic, and making plans to creak back to life at the state-mandated 25% of normal capacity.

'No booze?
No one's coming,' said Bob McDevitt, president of a casino employees union. 'I really don't even think they should open. Why would they?'

 Gov.

Phil Murphy announced that people could return to casinos but they couldn't allow for smoking, 카지노사ì´íŠ¸ drinking or eating inside their facilities

Many casinos had planned to reopen Thursday, the first day the state will let them.
But that was before they knew they could not let their customers smoke, drink alcohol or anything else, or eat inside the casinos.

The top-performing casino, the Borgata, almost immediately folded what it saw as a losing hand, announcing it was scrapping its reopening plans for the immediate future.

Instead, it will wait until conditions are more favorable.

On Tuesday, casino executives huddled in staff meetings, looking for more information and trying to decide whether it made sense to reopen at all.

 Casinos are trying to recoup money lost from the months they were closed.  Resorts, Tropicana, Ocean, Golden Nugget and Hard Rock (pictured) all said they will reopen Thursday

 Jim Allen, president of Hard Rock International, said the company and its thousands of workers are eager to reopen and start making up for some of the losses they have experienced since March

By mid-afternoon, all except the Borgata announced plans to reopen in the coming days.

Resorts, Tropicana, Ocean, Golden Nugget and Hard Rock all said they will reopen Thursday. Harrah's, Caesars and Bally's will reopen Friday.

Borgata had no estimate of when it might reopen.

Jim Allen, president of Hard Rock International, said the company and its thousands of workers are eager to reopen and start making up for some of the losses they have experienced since March.

'People are really desperate for a job and a paycheck,' he said.

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 Joe Lupo, president of the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City New Jersey, examines the installation of protective barriers at the casino

Murphy said Tuesday casinos will just have to endure a new reality until conditions improve.

'It's not a life sentence,' he said.

'We would like to be full-bore open; we're just not there yet.'

The temperature scanner at Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City

Before the pandemic, Atlantic City had started to regain its groove, reclaiming its former spot at the nation's No.

2 gambling market behind Nevada in terms of annual gambling revenue.

Nevada casinos reopened nearly a month earlier than those in New Jersey, with many of the same health protocols: temperatures checks for guests and workers, mandated masks after being optional for a time, and hand sanitizer stations.

Smoking was still allowed.

Within minutes of Murphy's announcements, made in a news release issued shortly before 10 p.m. Monday, social media lit up with complaints.

Some grumbled that the governor had sucked the fun out of the casino experience, even as a smaller number defended the decision on public health grounds.

Some said they were scrapping long-planned trips, and others said they would take their business to Pennsylvania casinos.

Some vowed to come anyway, mixing drinks in their rooms and bringing sandwiches for dinner.

The bans will also reduce the number of laid-off workers who will return. Drink servers and indoor restaurant workers were to comprise a significant portion of the force that had been envisioned.

More than 2,500,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19

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