{"id":31266,"date":"2022-06-08T05:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=31266"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:20:25","slug":"new-look-at-ballys-ohio-hits-a-speed-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/new-look-at-ballys-ohio-hits-a-speed-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"New look at Bally&#8217;s; Ohio hits a speed bump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"1024\" width=\"768\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ballys-AC-tower-768x1024.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31267\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Our East Coast correspondent visited <strong>Bally&#8217;s Atlantic City<\/strong> to check out its revisions and we&#8217;ll let his photos tell the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ballys-room-1-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31268\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ballys-room-2-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31269\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ballys-interior-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31270\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you count the the new Player&#8217;s Club carpet, the high limit room carpet, the old carpet to the parking garage, the new carpet around the new lobby bar, along with the four below, that&#8217;s a total of eight colors\/patterns of carpet on the main Bally&#8217;s floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ballys-AC-carpet-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31271\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, here is the al fresco pub, The Yard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"735\" width=\"980\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The-Yard-1024x768.jpg?resize=980%2C735&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31272\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes from the seaside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Since it is usually a pace car for gambling in the <strong>United States<\/strong>, the latest numbers from <strong>Ohio<\/strong> suggest that the bloom may be coming off the rose of gaming&#8217;s 2021-2 recovery. Revenues, while still well above 2019 levels, were 3.5% down from May 2021 for an overall gross of $201.5 million. Even seemingly impervious <strong>MGM Northfield Park<\/strong> was down 2.5%, coming in at $24.5 million and still comfortably at the top of the heap. <strong>Jack Cleveland<\/strong>, finally living up to its promise, was relatively close behind, flat at $22.5 million. Then came <strong>Hollywood Columbus<\/strong> with $22 million (-5%) and <strong>Hard Rock Cincinnati<\/strong>, defying the market with an 11% leap to $21 million (close proximity to casino-denied Kentuckians is obviously not hurting its cause). <strong>Hollywood Toledo<\/strong> logged in with $20.5 million (-5%), infinitesimally behind <strong>Scioto Downs<\/strong>&#8216; $20.5 million and change (-3.5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jack Thistledown<\/strong> stumbled badly, falling 17% to $16 million, while <strong>Miami Valley Gaming<\/strong> slipped 4% to $19 million. <strong>Belterra Park<\/strong> was down 6% to $8 million, while neither of <strong>Penn National Gaming<\/strong>&#8216;s outlying racinos was immune from the negative economic forces. <strong>Hollywood Dayton<\/strong> slid 9% to $13 million and <strong>Hollywood Mahoning Valley<\/strong> dipped 2% for $14 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our East Coast correspondent visited Bally&#8217;s Atlantic City to check out its revisions and we&#8217;ll let his photos tell the story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}