Dale Peterson – political ad @ Yahoo! Video
It’s primary day in Alabama, the day we find out if any of the candidates who make it to November are more amenable to electronic bingo than is outgoing Gov. Bob Riley (R) … and it would be a big relief to International Game Technology if they were. (IGT wagered heavily on Alabama and got skunked.) It also means it’s probably the last roundup for the most entertaining campaign ad I’ve seen since forever. If you don’t want this cowpoke coming after you with his Winchester, you’d best skedaddle on down to the polls and vote, pardner.
Casinos in the Catskills have been touted as an economic panacea for nigh unto a decade. We all know the ensuing score: much hype, little accomplishment. Still, that has not prevented one New York gubernatorial candidate from dusting this idea off today and making it the newest plank in her platform. “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis is projecting $1 billion/year/casino (based on win/gaming position of $250/day) if her proposal is enacted. To pencil out, that would require insane amounts of slot play — as much as $900/day — and Davis’ projected tax haul of $750 million a year implies a revenue projection of $562.5 million/year/casino, which is still one helluva stretch, even if 
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Applying yet another tongue bath to the management and bankers who drove Station Casinos into a brick wall at top speed, bankruptcy Judge Gregg Zive has decreed Fertitta Gaming‘s $772 million* stalking-horse bid “
Even as Harrah’s Entertainment was closing its purchase of an Thistledown Race Track, lawmakers 
MGM CEO Jim Murren clearly didn’t think spending quality time with Midnight Jim warranted rearranging his schedule. He was getting face time with someone who has actual power, 
“I grew up on the Nevada Palace breakfast. The house I was raised in is only about a mile away, on Hacienda and Nellis. We used to come up here a lot in high school during the graveyard hours and soak up the beer with bacon and eggs. Miss that place.” — local playwright and actor Ernie Curcio on the notoriously smoky casino that made way for Eastside Cannery. Nevada Palace figures prominently in Curcio’s 2009 play, 
(Editor’s note: Whoever labeled the photo at left misplaced the captions. FF3 is the guy having the good hair day and brother Lorenzo is the one with the handkerchief in his breast pocket.)
In many respects, Loveman is the casino industry’s most overrated CEO, steering an erratic, ADD-plagued course ever since he took the helm. However, having seemingly painted himself into a corner with a $30 billion LBO, Loveman’s forestalled bankruptcy, renegotiating debt, reworking deadlines and generally clubbing creditors like so many baby seals. The perverse genius of the LBO was that, owed so much money, Wall Street was at Loveman’s mercy. His company might be under siege but he’d taken the bond market hostage and wired the building
Another stumbling block has arisen to the casino market in Massachusetts. A bill wending its way through Congress thanks to Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK, left) would make it easier for Native American tribes 
As though yoked by karma, Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson and former sidekick William Weidner — the Jon & Kate Gosselin of the casino industry — seem destined to remain unwillingly chained together through eternity. Most recently, they’ve been 
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