Maryland officially hit the saturation point last month, as revenues dipped 1%. MGM National Harbor ($58 million) wasn’t hurting, up 6%—with slots and table games gaining 
equally—and with 40.5% market share. Maryland Live ($48 million) was second with 33.5% but it came at a price: a 5% decline in gaming revenue. Horseshoe Baltimore ($18.5 million) fell 1o%, Hollywood Perryville ($6 million) ceded 5% while Churchill Downs managed to eke out a flat month—and $7.5 million—at Ocean Downs. That left Rocky Gap out in the burbs, where Golden Entertainment gained 3% for $5 million. In West Virginia, gaming revenue was Continue reading
bribing Department of Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps with casino chips in return for such concessions as inmate phone services, unwittingly highlighting the corruption that runs rampant in the American penal system. After Epps was caught and pleaded guilty (he’s presently doing time), the quartet of malefactors moved on to Kemp County Sheriff James Moore.
I think; is this a status thing?), while The Rio‘s impost will be $39.68. Resort fees seem to have become—pardon our language—a dick-measuring contest between rival CEOs. We sure wish they’d leave the consumer out of it. Of course, you can always stay at the Four Queens or Binion’s Gambling Hall and avoid this resort-fee madness altogether.
“Steve Wynn, pressured [women] to not talk with the media, only to later joke about kissing female employees.” Former company president Maurice Wooden is quoted in the lawsuit as having told nine Jane Does not to speak with the press, which was taken as a threat. As for the anonymity of the plaintiffs—each of whom seeks $50,000—“Plaintiffs belief that public disclosure of their identities will subject them to further retaliation, humiliation and scorn, will invade their solitude and privacy and that of their families if it becomes known what lurid and abusive conduct was directed at them by Steve Wynn.”
Victims are generally happy with the outcome but the real bottom line is given by widow Heather Melton, who says no
operatic outrage from Sin City restaurant critics). Las Vegas hit the #1 spot for “affordability and accessibility of highly rated restaurants” but was pulled down by being 26th in average beer and wine price (well earned, sad to say) and 26th in craft breweries and wineries per capita—Ellis Island can’t do it alone. Sin City was also 26th in number of grocery stores per capita. On the upside, Vegas ranked #1 in coffee and tea shops per capita and fourth in restaurants per capita, as well as 
missed the deadline by a whopping six months. Hey, when you’re rolling in dough as Pennsylvania’s top casino it’s easy to get amnesiac like that. The overage was $1,122,654.89, Parx having apparently miscalculated its slot revenue. It was an error that stretched over a two year period, 2009-11. Parx parent Greenwood Racing belatedly came around an applied for a refund in mid-2014, too late to get its money back.
maintenance at the three casinos, as well as stronger competition from Mississippi, which has—unlike Louisiana—
clinched, by 
capital a week ago to defend her controversial decision, a move that came as Twin River casinos took out a full-page ad blasting the contract award, which would force Twin River to pack its floor with IGT-made slots. The game maker is on pace to control 84% of Rhode Island slot floors, even though state law it ought to be limited to 50%.
a bill that would outlaw resort fees (it’s the Hotel Advertising Transparency Act of 2019). The bill states that “advertising that does not reflect the true mandatory cost of a stay at a place of short term lodging is deceptive.” 
the Las Vegas business outlook for 2020 remains strong, private equity firms are loaded up with plenty of dry powder, and REITs (real estate investment trusts) are hungry for growth … a formula for continued consolidation and ultimately valuation appreciation.”—Union Gaming analyst Joseph DeCree 
he makes in other tourneys. Borgata has set its sights on the $124,410 Ivey won in the last World Series of Poker (plus $214,000). Since Borgata is owned by MGM Resorts International, it’s not like it lacks Vegas-based representatives to go after its money. In fact, the WSOP was hit up with a writ of execution. Next thing you know, they’ll be coming after Ivey’s Nevada pied-a-terre. Life’s not easy when you try to cheat Borgata and get caught.
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