victoriainlv - "Let’s start with the core issue here. Michael Shackleford wanted an employee of the Stratosphere to break the written rules of the sports book which could have resulted in this employee being terminated from his job...

[Shackleford and friends] takes it out on the sports book manager that is just trying to make a living and follow the rules set by the company that he works for."

Since you provide no evidence of any sort that the book manager coould have lost his job if he'd honored the ticket, I have to conclude that you've invented this to attempt to justify Rethore's action.

I assume that in truth you have no idea what the consequences would've been with Rethore's employers.

If his employers would've fired him for honoring the ticket, then why do you state several times that he is likely to lose his job for NOT honoring the ticket?

As you would know if you'd read Haney's article, it is a common practice to honor expired tickets at mostbooks in Nevada.
Have all of the book managers who approved the expired tickets for payment lost their job?

victoriainlv - "One thing the Sun publishers might want to ask is did anyone bother to get the facts from the Stratosphere, the Gaming Control Board or Mr. Rethore? "

Try reading the article before posting.

Haney quotes from NGCB documents.
If these do not contain the facts, then you have an issue with the NGCB, not the Sun nor with Haney's excellent article.

BobbyC - "I intended to dissect this ridiculous article (a story about a dispute, with no effort made to get a comment from one of the two sides involved???..."

Haney - "The Stratosphere’s official statement on the matter, contained in documents from the Gaming Control Board, is stunning.

Patrick Rethore, the sports book manager, wrote in a prepared statement..."

So Haney is quoting from NGCB documents.
Perhaps you feel an additonal interview is needed with both sides, but Haney's use of official documents is professional.

BobbyC - "As one sports book manager I know told me recently when we discussed this story, 'I applaud the Stratosphere sports book.' "

Both BobbyC and the person he quotes sound like the typical casino employee lackey.

What exactly is being applauded here? The fact that the Stratosphere is stiffing a sportsbook customer who beat them for a bet but missed the arbitrary (and incorrectly printed on the ticket) expiration date?

That is applause worthy?

One more casino employee with contempt for casino customers, especially those who win, speaking to another.
Repulsive.