Inside the casino, the line to sign up for players' cards stretched from the casino floor out into a lobby, but no one was complaining. 'They did an amazing job making it feel welcoming,' he said. Her husband, Nate, said the redesign of the casino floor was immediately evident. 'I played $10 for 15 minutes and won $260,' she said. Sometimes all you need is rhythm.'Ī few hundred yards north at the Ocean Resort, Alesia Shropshire celebrated her 51st birthday with a big win at the slots. 'It's beautiful, just fantastic,' she said. Suspected Philly serial killer faces life in prison after being convicted of 2 murders in Del. Just as that wrapped up, the Ocean Resort Casino, the former Revel, held a ribbon cutting a few hundred yards north on the Boardwalk at which actor, singer and die-hard New England Patriots fan Mark Wahlberg had to eat crow in front of hundreds of Philadelphia Eagles fans who reminded him of the outcome of February's Super Bowl. Jordan was among those helping to christen the facility. The Hard Rock, which was the former Trump Taj Mahal, held a mass guitar smashing ceremony inside its concert arena that holds nearly 8,000 fans. Movie stars lent an air of celebrity glitz to a gritty seaside gambling resort Thursday as Atlantic City reclaimed two of its shuttered casinos, and more than 6,000 of the 11,000 jobs it lost during a brutal stretch of casino shutdowns.

After a brutal two-year stretch in which five of its 12 casinos closed, Atlantic City now has nine.The new casinos are re-imaginations of casinos that shuttered a few years ago.The Hard Rock and Ocean Resort casinos are bringing thousands of jobs to Atlantic City.

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