{"id":31654,"date":"2022-09-12T08:11:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=31654"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T22:03:26","slug":"horseshoe-boosts-st-louis-u-k-gaming-reform-slowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/horseshoe-boosts-st-louis-u-k-gaming-reform-slowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoe boosts St. Louis; U.K. gaming reform slowed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gambling continues to prosper in Missouri<\/strong>, where August receipts ($161 million) were 5.5% above last year’s. Visitation was actually down 5% but per-player spending rose 11%, inflation be damned. Ameristar St. Charles<\/strong> was out front with $26.5 million, leaping 9%. River City<\/strong> was next at $21 million, up 8%, while Penn Entertainment<\/strong>‘s nearby sister property Hollywood St. Louis<\/strong> jumped 10% to $19 million. Freshly rebranded Horseshoe St. Louis<\/strong> showed signs of a turnaround, up 6% to $14 million. Over in Kansas City<\/strong>, there’s a continued tailwind behind reinvented Bally’s Kansas City<\/strong>, up 9% to $10 million, even if it was in fourth place. Market leaders were Ameristar Kansas City<\/strong> ($16.5 million, +1%), Harrah’s North Kansas City<\/strong> ($15 million, +14%) and Argosy Riverside<\/strong> ($15 million, flat). Outstate, Century Casinos<\/strong> had adverse months in Caruthersville<\/strong> ($3.5 million, -9%) and Cape Girardeau<\/strong> ($5.5 million, -7%), while Isle of Capri Boonville<\/strong> climbed 5% to $7.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In a slow month (August), New York State<\/strong> sports books grossed $99.5 million. We don’t know how much went back out in promos after the state took its 51% cut, leaving operators with $49 million. Predictably, FanDuel<\/strong> was out front with $47 million, whereupon came DraftKings<\/strong>‘ $26 million and Caesars Sportsbook<\/strong>‘s $13 million. Despite its dominance, FanDuel lost market share to DraftKings, good news that CEO Jason Robins<\/strong> sure could use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jottings<\/em><\/strong>: While the House of Windsor rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic<\/em>, new British Prime Minister Liz Truss<\/strong> may take a go-slow approach<\/a> to gaming-industry reform, which would displease the brick-and-mortar component (which was looking forward to the relaxation of certain curbs, such as on slot machines) but not its online constituency. Boding less well for gaming is the fact that the reform portfolio passes into the hands of Michelle Donelan<\/strong>, an industry detractor … Pagcor<\/strong> is dragging its heels on divesting of its Philippines<\/strong> casinos, begging for additional “time to study” the move. The agency also regulates the entire casino industry in the archipelago, a conflict of interest with which it has been wholly comfortable … The Los Angeles Times<\/em> editorial board has come out against both Proposition 26<\/strong> and Proposition 27<\/strong>, further contributing to the seemingly inevitable doom of sports betting in California<\/strong> … Derek Stevens<\/strong> continues to add casinos<\/a> to the Circa Sports<\/strong> umbrella, seemingly content to be a medium-size player. However, one analyst cautions that Circa’s technology \u201csimply isn’t competitive with the top or even middle tiers of apps. [That\u2019s] a major issue.\u201d … Slow news day today. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quote of the Day<\/em><\/strong>: “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”\u2014playwright Oscar Wilde<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gambling continues to prosper in Missouri, where August receipts ($161 million) were 5.5% above last year’s. Visitation was actually down 5% but per-player spending rose 11%, inflation be damned. Ameristar St. Charles was out front with $26.5 million, leaping 9%. River City was next at $21 million, up 8%, while Penn Entertainment‘s nearby sister property […]<\/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\/31654"}],"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=31654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}