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Category Archives: Steve Wynn
Borgata or bust; ‘LVH,’ Jacko & Sinead
First, the good news: Borgata — accounting for more than one-fifth of the entire market share — continues to vastly outpace the rest of the Atlantic City market. Last month, it raked in $50 million for a 2% gain, driven … Continue reading
Fight the power
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn are huge admirers of the despotic government of China, which censors the Internet wholesale. So I’m sure they just lurve this … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Internet gambling, Macau, Regulation, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, Technology
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Boyd: Trapped in Florida; Sands muzzled in Singapore; Good vibes in Macao
This is a good time to be in Florida, right? Not if you’re Boyd Gaming and have been trying to unload Dania Jai-alai, souvenir of a half-assed venture into the Sunshine State’s racino market. The company has scrapped an $80 … Continue reading
Posted in Boyd Gaming, Colony Capital, Current, Economy, Genting, Harrah's, Macau, MGM Mirage, Racinos, Regulation, Sheldon Adelson, Singapore, Stanley Ho, Steve Wynn, The Strip, Wall Street
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Election update: Evening the score; A Wynn-Winn situation
It’s five o’clock in Shreveport … or soon will be. Voters in Bossier Parish handed the casino industry a belated 2011 “win,” balancing the ledger in an otherwise disappointing electoral cycle. A Margaritaville-branded casino (employing a Lake Charles boat purchased … Continue reading
Hold that recovery!
Just when things were looking good … I mean, after many a premature prediction of economic recovery, room-rate trends on the Las Vegas Strip were looking like change in which one could believe. J.P. Morgan projections for the fourth quarter … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmopolitan, Current, Economy, Harrah's, MGM Mirage, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, The Strip, Tourism
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Atlantic City: Fertitta struggling, Gomes triumphing, Boyd steady
No surprise that Borgata remains in a class by itself among Atlantic City resorts. It finished October at 0.0% deviance from last year, as flat as “flat” can be. The lone gainer in the market was Resorts Atlantic City, up … Continue reading
It’s payback time
… or maybe not. Dealers at Wynn Las Vegas won a rare victory when Clark County District Judge Kenneth Cory (pictured) spiked Labor Commissioner Michael Tanchek‘s longstanding position vis-a-vis the tip-confiscation policy at the Strip resort. Asking for a third … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Pets, Regulation, Steve Wynn, The Strip
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Going home again; Hotel Hell: The sequel
Here’s a casino-development story with several personal angles. When I lived in Minneapolis and wrote from the since-defunct Twin Cities Reader, my publisher was R.T. Rybak. Now he’s mayor of the city and is trying to hold onto the perennially … Continue reading
Posted in Ameristar, Atlantic City, Boyd Gaming, Cordish Co., Culinary Union, Current, Donald Trump, Economy, Genting, Harrah's, Herbst Gaming, Isle of Capri, Lyle Berman, Marketing, MGM Mirage, Minnesota, Neil Bluhm, Ohio, Penn National, Sheldon Adelson, Sports, Steve Wynn, Taxes, The Strip, Tourism
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Station: We love ourselves
If you live in the Las Vegas area, you’ve been exposed to the months-long “We Love Locals” ad blitz with which Station Casinos has been attempting to shore up its image. The company’s heedless expansionism, exorbitant executive salaries, its LBO … Continue reading
Posted in Boulder Strip, Current, Economy, Marketing, Movies, Sheldon Adelson, Station Casinos, Steve Wynn, TV
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Quotations from Chairman Steve; Elvis catches fire
Perhaps due to his eagerness to get Wynn Cotai jump-started, Steve Wynn has become an even more pliant sock puppet for China‘s central government than was Sheldon Adelson. It must be a source of great amusement among the ruling elite … Continue reading
Posted in Cordish Co., Current, Economy, Entertainment, Harrah's, International, Macau, Maryland, Penn National, Pennsylvania, Racinos, Regulation, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, Taxes, TV, West Virginia
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Mojito Pointe: Why MGM did it
Maybe they were just charmed by Dan Lee‘s babyish face (left) but leadership at MGM Resorts International can cite of plenty of other reasons for throwing in on Lee’s Mojito Pointe project … which may be rechristened with an MGM … Continue reading
The King of Palm Beach
Florida‘s seven struggling, casino-enabled parimutuels could become eight, with the entry of a new player … While the courts have now made it possible for Don King to make an end-run around Palm Beach County voters, if necessary, by taking … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Economy, Florida, G2E, Harrah's, Isle of Capri, Politics, Racinos, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, The Strip, Tribal
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Breakthrough in Massachusetts
This just in … the Massachusetts state Senate voted 24-14 to send casino legalization on to a conference committee, where the House’s version — passed with a crushing majority — already reposes. Differences between the two versions, obviously, will have … Continue reading
Posted in Bally Technologies, Current, Economy, Florida, Genting, Harrah's, Horseracing, IGT, Internet gambling, Movies, Penn National, Pennsylvania, Politics, Racinos, Regulation, Sheldon Adelson, Slot routes, Sports, Steve Wynn, Taxes, Tribal, Wall Street, WMS Industries
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Monopoly over Miami
A recent visitor to Las Vegas from the Pacific Rim told me that Sheldon Adelson has worn out his welcome in Macao (which is on pace to eclipse all other gaming markets combined) and is fast doing so in Singapore. … Continue reading
Posted in Archon Corp., Current, Economy, Florida, Genting, Harrah's, Internet gambling, Laughlin, Macau, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Politics, Racinos, Sheldon Adelson, Singapore, Stanley Ho, Steve Wynn, Taxes, Wall Street
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Quote of the Day
“Ferries don’t come to Macao during a typhoon but they don’t leave either.” — Deutsche Bank gaming analyst Carlo Santarelli, endeavoring to calm investor fears of “a broader slowdown in China” — anxieties that have driven MGM Resorts International, Las … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, James Packer, Lawrence Ho, Melco Crown Entertainment, MGM Mirage, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, Wall Street
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Siegfried & Roy’s House of Horrors
Today is the eighth anniversary of that fateful night when a tiger named Montecore went postal on illusionist Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, dropping a permanent curtain to the performing entity known as Siegfried & Roy™. Unwitting premonitions of Horn’s career-ending … Continue reading
Posted in Current, Entertainment, history, MGM Mirage, Movies, Steve Wynn, The Strip
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Shakedown at G2E; Riviera quits Colorado, Trump quits humanity
Our beloved casino industry runneth over with individuals, companies and even sovereign nations that have a vested interest in the legalization of Internet poker … and more. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX, left) knows this, which is why he’s coming to … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Colorado, Current, Dennis Gomes, Donald Trump, Economy, Election, G2E, Internet gambling, Marketing, Politics, Regulation, Reno, Riviera, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, The Strip
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