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> They also probably spend less on high-end restaurant dining and bar drinking inside the hotel.

I'm not so sure. There's a _lot_ of drinking at DEF CON

It's mostly with liquor bought from offsite and drunk in rooms/private parties, not via Caesar's venues or catering (there's a lot of that too, and this is summer dead period, so it still may be good).

I explicitly remember them tapping out every keg at a bar there by 2pm about 10 years ago.

I can think of plenty of in-hotel bars packed with DEF CON attendees 24 hours a day during the conference.

The linq bar turned into a 24hr party after the bomb threat last year

“Turned into?”

I accidentally bumped into a random guy there before the con started, and we ended up chatting and he bought me a beer. I saw him there the next morning. And that evening. And at 2AM. Almost every time I walked past, the same guy was in the same seat, enthusiastically laughing and drinking with his buddies.

Dios mio, amigo.

A bomb threat last year? Hmmm, I wonder why Caesars chose not to renew the contract.

Unrelated to DEFCON, Caesars (and MGM) also got hit with ransomware.

I'm sure their insurers might not be too happy about them hosting hacker conventions these days.

They didn't choose to not renew a contract, they broke an existing contract. Big difference.

Yeah, I think those things are more likely to be the issue. Tech people tend not to be shy with racking up huge bar tabs.

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