![]() Non-compete clauses are industry practice not only for casinos but also for regular ticketed venues. It makes the playing field a little more difficult, obviously.” “It affects all of us because we're losing artists to the casinos. “Everybody has radius clauses in their offers, theirs are just kind of different,” says Robin Phillips, senior talent buyer with AEG who books venues like the Verizon and Majestic Theatres and AT&T Performing Arts Center, of the casinos. Though the casinos are in Oklahoma, non-compete clauses in the casinos’ contracts prevents artists from playing shows in a 100-mile radius within a certain period of time of playing their venues at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant and the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville. Others, like Leon Bridges and Duran Duran, will do both, but months apart. ![]() Dolly Parton, Amy Schumer and Willie Nelson will all play one of these casinos in 2016 and never get closer than that to Dallas. Nearly 100 miles north of Dallas are two casinos that host some of the biggest touring acts to come through the North Texas area.
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