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Category Archives: Harrah's
Boardwalk bummer
In short, January's Atlantic City revenue numbers are -9% at the tables and -10% in slots. The glass-half-empty spin is that this is the third straight year of decline. The glass-half-full perspective would be, yes, but it's -9% the fifth-highest … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Boyd Gaming, Colony Capital, Donald Trump, Economy, Harrah's, Tropicana Entertainment
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Mixed message from Penn
Having pulled the plug on his latest Atlantic City venture, Penn National CEO Peter Carlino served the city a heaping plate of gloom with a side dish of pessimism. In fact, he pretty much slammed the door on the besieged … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Colony Capital, Donald Trump, Economy, Harrah's, MGM Mirage, Penn National, Pennsylvania, Pinnacle Entertainment, Tropicana Entertainment
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Who are they kidding?
Mesquite casino oligopolist Randy Black bought himself some TV ad time during the Super Bowl to tout his latest value proposition (starring one Randy Black). His opening gambit: "Everybody's cutting back." Uh no, not if you're Randy Black and just … Continue reading
Posted in Columbia Sussex, Current, Donald Trump, Economy, Harrah's, Marketing, Mesquite, Phil Ruffin, The Strip, TV
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Atlantic City: Two strikes, no balls
This was originally going to be “Death Watch VI” but three of those in a week is positively ghoulish. So, on to the latest disheartening developments from Atlantic City, the casino market that just can’t catch a break. Cease the … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Columbia Sussex, Economy, Harrah's, Penn National, Pennsylvania, Pinnacle Entertainment, Regulation, Tropicana Entertainment, Wall Street
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Atlantic City Death Watch V
Joys, Shakespeare famously wrote, come as solitary spies while griefs arrive by the battalion. So it is with Atlantic City, where the bad news washes up along the Boardwalk in bunches. If you picked Resorts Atlantic City as the Casino … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Boyd Gaming, Cannery Casino Resorts, Colony Capital, Donald Trump, Economy, Harrah's, Pinnacle Entertainment
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Case Bets: Chicago, Wyndham, Harrah's
Anybody who still frets about "criminal elements" in Las Vegas casinos ought to turn their gaze toward Chicago instead, where such issues continue to dog the state's 10th casino license. The citizens of Waukegan lost their shot at a casino … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Yemenidjian, Economy, Harrah's, Illinois, Indiana, International, Neil Bluhm, Plaza, The Strip, Tropicana Entertainment
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'Gang' at Encore
Yesterday saw an unusual — but altogether pleasant — change in the Vegas Gang routine, as we taped “on location” from a seventh-floor room in Encore, overlooking Echelon and the increasingly ominous Fontainebleau (so disproportionately massive it looms over its … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cloverfield monster, Current, Detroit, Fontainebleau, Harrah's, Illinois, Macau, MGM Mirage, Mississippi, Phil Ruffin, Stanley Ho, Steve Wynn, The Strip
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Rogues' gallery
After a fitful start, blogorrhea is sweeping the business desk of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, resulting a veritable flood of news nuggets today … Planet Hollywood prexy Michael Mecca has resigned to pursue the proverbial "other opportunities" at a time … Continue reading
Posted in California, Cannery Casino Resorts, Columbia Sussex, Current, Dining, Economy, Entertainment, Harrah's, James Packer, Marketing, Mesquite, MGM Mirage, Planet Hollywood, Politics, Regulation, Reno, The Strip, Tropicana Entertainment
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'Gang' at Encore
Yesterday saw an unusual — but altogether pleasant — change in the Vegas Gang routine, as we taped "on location" from a seventh-floor room in Encore, overlooking Echelon and the increasingly ominous Fontainebleau (so disproportionately massive it looms over its … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cloverfield monster, Current, Detroit, Fontainebleau, Harrah's, Illinois, Macau, MGM Mirage, Mississippi, Phil Ruffin, Stanley Ho, Steve Wynn, The Strip
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Penn Nat'l: Smoke everywhere, fire less evident
Despite story upon story, Penn National Gaming refuses to oblige the Las Vegas Review-Journal and purchase The Mirage. (This was the paper that pooh-poohed the Phil Ruffin/El Ad deal when it began to break.) While — for all we know … Continue reading
Posted in Colony Capital, Entertainment, Harrah's, MGM Mirage, Penn National, Phil Ruffin, Steve Wynn, The Strip
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Lanni: The official story
My favorite exchange in one of my favorite current TV series, Mad Men, takes place when weasel-like junior exec Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) goes to rat out his boss, Donald Draper (Jon Hamm), to company owner Bertram Cooper (the cunningly … Continue reading
Posted in Columbia Sussex, Current, Detroit, Harrah's, International, MGM Mirage, Phil Ruffin, Regulation, Station Casinos, The Strip, TV
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Harrah's Chapter 11 Watch
Wait 'til the sun shines, Caesar. Every so often there's a news story to which the only appropriate response is, "Holy shit!" Then again, it wasn't so long ago on the Vegas Gang that Jeff Simpson was reporting finding whole … Continue reading
Posted in Boyd Gaming, Current, Economy, Harrah's, MGM Mirage, Sheldon Adelson, The Strip
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Good thing they don't gamble … do they?
(Well, only with their shareholders' money, perhaps.) Huffington Post, with the considerable assistance of VegasTripping.com, has sifted through the contributions of casino industry moguls during the last election cycle and all I can say is I'm sure glad these folks' … Continue reading
Posted in Boyd Gaming, Columbia Sussex, Election, Fontainebleau, George Maloof, Harrah's, Kentucky, MGM Mirage, Phil Ruffin, Politics, Sheldon Adelson, Station Casinos, Steve Wynn, Tilman Fertitta
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Deep Red: Encore
As much as casino-watchers have been vexed by the total media clampdown on all but the smallest scintillae of revelation about Steve Wynn‘s Encore, it was worth the wait. Or, to put it differently, Aria and Fontainebleau have just been … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cirque du Soleil, Cloverfield monster, Current, Dining, Economy, Encore, Fontainebleau, Harrah's, Macau, MGM Mirage, Planet Hollywood, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, The Strip
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Pinnacle's Bahamas debacle
It wasn’t so long ago that Pinnacle Entertainment was the fair-haired boy of the casino industry, especially after it hit a home run in the Lake Charles, La., market with tony L’Auberge du Lac. Then it nearly followed Columbia Sussex … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Columbia Sussex, Harrah's, International, Isle of Capri, James Packer, Pinnacle Entertainment, Planet Hollywood, The Strip, TV
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Right from the beginning
Time Magazine, no less, has designated the LBO of Harrah’s Entertainment by Texas Pacific Group and Apollo (Mis)Management the third-worst business deal of 2008. Harrah’s CEO Gary Loveman sought out this deal — and these particular buyers — out at … Continue reading
Posted in Cirque du Soleil, Harrah's, International, Macau, MGM Mirage, Wall Street
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Case Bets: Stanley Ho in Vegas?, HRH grows but Morgans shrinks
A local columnist raises the spectre of Stanley Ho getting back-door access into Las Vegas via James Packer‘s acquisition of Cannery Resorts. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this question raised and, call me complacent, but I believe it … Continue reading
Posted in Boyd Gaming, Cannery Casino Resorts, Colony Capital, Columbia Sussex, Cosmopolitan, Economy, Harrah's, Herbst Gaming, Isle of Capri, James Packer, Macau, MGM Mirage, Morgans Hotel Group, Stanley Ho, Station Casinos, The Strip, Tropicana Entertainment, Wall Street
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Harrah's honored
Harrah's Entertainment can use any business leverage it can get these days and it just received the endorsement of Stand Out for Equality, an opposition movement spurred by the passage of Proposition 8 in California (where Harrah's Rincon has been … Continue reading
Posted in California, Harrah's, MGM Mirage, Politics, The Strip
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