On the floor of the Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in San Bernardino County, amid the clangs and howls of thousands of slot machines, Shelby Flores knew she’d just gotten extremely lucky. She was about to watch one of her favorite singers, the British pop superstar Ed Sheeran, in a 3,000-capacity nightclub.
“I was going to see him when he played a stadium show in Las Vegas, but it got canceled,” said Flores, 31. She drove in from Roswell, N.M., to see Sheeran at Yaamava’, a resort run by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, in October. “My boyfriend found these tickets and he was like, ‘It’s a smaller venue.’ But this is way smaller.”
