Ocean Resort Casino

"There's not a glut of unemployed workers sitting out there, waiting to be hired," said Bob McDevitt, president of the Unite Here Local 54 casino workers' union. "That pool is not there in the volume that someone would imagine it to be."

"I they're just going to cannibalize what's already out there," said Roger Gros, publisher of Global Gaming Business magazine. "I think the industry had right-sized itself in the last couple years."

A Colorado-based investor has bought the former $2.4 billion Revel in Atlantic City for $200 million.