Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008 | 6:19 a.m.
The Los Angeles Times reports on the boarded up Queen of Hearts hotel being open for eight hours recently to allow its owners to retain its gaming license for another year.
"One-day casinos -- mandated by law for a handful of places that are closed but want to hang onto their gaming rights -- are governed by the same rules as high-end resorts with thousands of machines. They're the gambling industry's equivalent of a solar eclipse. They unfold a few times each year. They typically get some press, and people who stumble upon them are often befuddled but intrigued."
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