Donald Trump has an excellent chance of surviving both the present impeachment inquiry and the 2020 election. That’s not punditry: It’s oddsmaking. BookerMaker.eu places The Donald 
as a 10/1 long shot for being unseated. Ironically, Trump nemesis Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela, despite everything he’s done, is an even longer shot, at 16-1. The likeliest world leader to be deposed is Canada’s Justin Trudeau, at 5/4, followed by Great Britain‘s unpredictable Boris Johnson at 3/2. Said oddsmaker Angus Dagglass, “While each leader is embroiled in their own political maelstrom, it’s the timing of the Canadian federal election that has placed Prime Minister Trudeau atop our list. Thanks to his strong backing from China and Russia it’s surprisingly President Maduro with the longest odds to be replaced, which just another reminder of what curious time we are living in.” Indeed.
* Caesars Entertainment Regional President Kevin Ortzman, meet #MeToo. Ortzman has been sacked from the Roman Empire after a whistleblower complained about his “making out” with a subaltern. Ortzman runs two of Caesars’ three Atlantic City resorts but was deemed expendable by CEO Anthony Rodio following a August 9 meeting, the New 
York Post reports. Complainant Jocelyn Agnellini “feels vindicated,” sources say. Agnellini originally complained in May of 2017, but says the Mark Frissora regime feigned ignorance, while Ortzman said “there will be hell to pay” if he found out who’d filed the complaint. Angellini says she was consequently cut out of the loop in her department and subjected to a harassment campaign that didn’t end until last February, when she was fired. We applaud Rodio for moving with the times but he ought to go the extra mile and reinstate Agnellini. It’s the right thing to do.
* Speaking of discrimination, that and many other things are being alleged against the Golden Nugget chain, so much so that a Web site has been created to log the complaints. The most recent ones are …
- Five Latina women who worked at McCormick & Schmick’s Steakhouse allege that they were sexually harassed by supervisors, treatment that included “repeated incidents of unwanted fondling and other lewd behavior.
- A Saltgrass Steakhouse employee is suing for discrimination. A victim of chronic pancreatitis, she was reportedly denied FMLA furlough.
- Three guests at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas “allegedly suffered serious injuries in their baths and showers when the glass doors fell of [sic] their hinges and shattered causing lacerations and wounds.”
- Two former Golden Nugget Lake Charles employees are suing for alleged shorting of their pay and forcible tip pooling … And that’s just for openers. Tilman Fertitta‘s lawyers are really going to get to earn their money.
* Las Vegas visitation was relatively flat in August, coming in at 3.6 million. Citywide, the occupant rate was 88% (89.5% on the Las Vegas Strip), while convention attendance was up 2% 
at 658,000, “with the rotation of some larger shows in and out of Las Vegas largely offsetting one another, and an increase in small and mid-size meetings.” Thus spake J.P. Morgan analyst Joseph Greff. Strip room rates rose 6% to average $131/night. That was good news considering that the market had to absorb 1,788 new rooms. Given the lack of uptick in visitation, August’s impressive gaming numbers look even more so.
