Having taken forever to build Sands Cotai Central, owner Sheldon Adelson is wasting no time re-doing it. According to Macau Business Daily, the metaresort’s four hotels — St. Regis, Sheraton Grand, Conrad and Holiday Inn — will be redecorated in a London theme. 
“The decision is done, it’s now just a matter of starting to work on it,” said an anonymous Sands China source. The five-year-old hotel towers will be retrofitted with what are described as distinctive features of the United Kingdom, in order to make them “more attractive to Chinese visitors,” in the manner of Venetian Macao and Parisian. Replicas of Big Ben, the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace or the Tower Bridge are rumored, but not confirmed.
The London theme will extend to the casino-resort interiors and, in keeping both with London and the auspicious color of red, double-decker buses will ferry visitors around Cotai Central. While the concept might seem tacky to some, Sands Cotai Central’s generic look could probably withstand improvement, provided that it’s tastefully done. Adelson 
has reason to feel happy these days: an anonymous high roller blew through $75 million at Venetian Macao, which is certain to fatten the next quarter’s receipts. The nameless player didn’t go home empty-handed. Asked for his choice of parting gift, he chose the astrolabe in the casino’s foyer. Sands China is spending $62,000 to produce a replica for the otherwise unlucky man. Chinese authorities, meanwhile, will probably want to know how he got that much money into Macao and from whence it came.
* DFS is legal (again) in Delaware, albeit at a steep price: “Sites will have to pay the state a $50,000 annual fee and gross revenue here will be taxed at 15.5 percent or the highest current fantasy sports tax rate in the country.” This has moved the News-Journal to come out in favor of legalized sports betting, period. “Gambling and football are as American as beer … and football,” its editorial board opines. It comes to the conclusion that “legalized and monitored sports betting is a far better option than allowing it to spiral out of control. We appreciate that Delaware lawmakers recognize that.”
* Uncle Sam is at loggerheads with the Comanche Nation, which accuses The Man of making an end-run around the rules governing off-reservation casinos. The Comanches are het up because the Chickasaw Nation is building a 600-slot casino in little Terral, Oklahoma — hardly a major metropolis but only two miles from the Texas border. Ka-ching! Secretary of the Interior 
Ryan Zinke is among those soon to feel the Comanche Nation’s wrath, charged with favoring monied tribes over poorer ones where casino policy is concerned. The Chickasaw, for their part, are accused of being allowed to skip environmental-impact studies, even though the casino project requires the creation of multiple sewage lagoons that, were you an astronaut in orbit, you could see them. “The Comanche feel like they’ve played by the rules and their competition didn’t,” said tribal attorney Richard Grellner.
Bureau of Indian Affairs “officials moved the goal line so close to the Chickasaws and other privileged tribes in Oklahoma that they have needed only to fall into the end zone and open up shop, secure in the knowledge that the score was virtually certain to hold up without any replay,” reads the lawsuit, which seeks to overturn last January’s land-into-trust reward to the Chickasaw Nation. (The acreage in question was once part of a Chickasaw reservation, qualifying the tribe for an Indian Gaming Regulatory Act exception.) The latter responds that “the complaint does not raise any factual or legal point of merit.” For now, Zinke is keeping mum.
