Move over sports books, here comes … Buffalo Wild Wings?!? Yes, the restaurant business known for its trivia games and spicy food wants to get into the sports-betting business. “As the largest sports bar in America, we believe Buffalo Wild Wings is uniquely positioned to leverage sports gaming to enhance the restaurant experience for our guests. We are actively exploring opportunities, including potential partners, as we evaluate the next steps for our brand,” read a company statement. The move appears to be not coincidental with the recent acquisition of Buffalo Wild Wings by Inspire Brands. “Uniquely positioned” is right: The chain has outposts in all 50 states.
This isn’t entirely new for the restaurateur. Its Nevada locations have slot machines, among Continue reading
helping to lead the way. (Remember, you can still smoke in Indiana casinos but not in Illinois.) Revenues for tribal Four Winds Casino are unknown but they continue to gnaw at Blue Chip, off 3% last month and so “tracking down 5.8% y/y.” JP Morgan analyst Joseph Greff writes, “Looking ahead, we model 3Q18 [gross gaming revenue] at the property to decrease by 10.0% y/y.” That’s not what Boyd Gaming wants to read this morning.
project. A flunky said Landing International’s lease payments were “unconscionable” and that they put the government at a disadvantage. This makes the second casino shot down by Duterte, who nixed a $500 million Melco Resorts & Entertainment project in April. Landing Int’l vowed to fight on, issuing a statement that read, in part, “Unless the lease contract is canceled or nullified on solid legal grounds by the courts, Landing has reason to believe that it is a valid leaseholder and can legally proceed with its project.” Considering that 
continues to trend toward highly taxed (60%) slots and away from low-tax table games. In July the split was $32 million/$26 million. Rival Maryland Live is even more reliant upon the one-armed bandits, $34 million/$14 million. Slot revenue was up 17% at National Harbor and tables jumped 13%, for an overall gain of 15%. Maryland Live was up only 2%, thanks to a 6% decline at the tables. National Harbor averaged $1.9 million per day, a boffo day by any measure and one MGM would love to achieve from any of its Las Vegas Strip casinos.
million of which was generated by Rivers Casino alone. Rivers was one of the few revenue-positive casinos, up a point. Gamblers spent 6% more statewide but that wasn’t enough in the face of a 9.5% plunge in foot traffic. Reporting positive results were Harrah’s Joliet ($15.5 million, +1.5%) and … 
chairman. Since D. Boone Wayson is stepping down as chairman of the board at year’s end there’s every reason to expect that Satre will succeed him, in keeping with Elaine Wynn‘s express wishes. Concurrent with this change of events, Ms. Wynn has entered into a multi-faceted agreement with the board that expires when Satre’s term as chairman does.
postal on a couple of his customers. 
brothers and a fourth dentist are accused of doing to an unnamed woman last weekend. Ali Badkoobehi is charged with singling the woman out at a nightclub and enticing her up to a Wynn hotel room, where the proceedings are said to have taken place. (A finding of rape was confirmed by a hospital examination. The foursome, all of whom boasted douchey designer stubble, to the detriment of their professional images, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit sexual assault, sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping.
that it’s 
luck was on their side last month and most jurisdictions reported revenue-positive results. Room rates in Las Vegas, however, dipped 1.5% to an average of $126, with revenue per available room of $115. The numbers would have been worse without the Infocomm and American Water Works Association conventions, which brought 58,000 attendees to Sin City. Even so, midweek occupancy was down 3% for a monthly average of 90.5%.
and truly awful.” Said the CEO, “I first want to express my sincere regret that we did not spend more time explaining what we were trying to accomplish.” I don’t know what’s so difficult to explain about having a plethora of lawsuits dismissed. Instead of taking this opportunity to enlarge upon MGM’s legal strategy, 
mean, according to Bloomberg, “MGM will be able to use official NBA and WNBA logos and trademarks, and have access to official NBA data streams to create products like in-game betting.” It’s not such a big leap when you consider that MGM already owns and hosts the former San Antonio Stars of the WNBA. “It was very important that we were able to establish through a commercial relationship that indeed we should be compensated for our intellectual property and our official data,” remarked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver of the $25 million deal.
million. The house won big at baccarat, shooting up 12% only 1% greater wagering. Non-baccarat table games posted a sensation 19.5% increase, on 9% larger betting. Slots were the dark lining of the silver cloud, down 4.5%, despite 4.5% higher coin-in. Luck just wasn’t with the house on that one. Since June ended on a Saturday, some last-minute slot revenue is lurking in the July earnings report.
footprint across the country,” said CEO Keith Smith about new Boyd Gaming sports books in Shreveport, Biloxi and Valley Forge. What 
Adelson modestly when casinos were voted in by the Diet. Over at MGM Resorts International, CEO Jim Murren played the social-responsibility card, speaking one sort of language Japanese politicians like to see. Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox also tried to sound culturally multilingual, saying Wynn “is known worldwide for a unique culture of customer-focused hospitality known as ‘omotenashi.’ [I say that often; don’t you?] This important Japanese tradition of creating a unique guest experience makes it clear to us that Japan will develop 
betting market in the United States. Now that more jurisdictions across the country have begun offering sports betting, there could be no better time to hear his insight on the evolving state of play and the overarching benefits from this new sector of the American gaming industry.” — American Gaming Association Executive Vice President Sara Slane on why Van Pelt will find himself