What is more all-American than cute photos of our pets? This is our latest adoptee, Cupid. My wife met her at the animal hospital, where it was love at first purr. Cupid has found herself a forever home and we’re all the richer for having her.
Although we’ve learned to take Moulin Rouge revival projects with a shakerful of salt, the latest round of interest is 
walloped, down 19%. Still, MGM commands 40% of market share in the Free State, followed by Maryland Live with 34%. The latter slipped but 2%, to $49 million. Horseshoe Baltimore got lapped, fading 18% to $19 million. Ocean Downs‘ luck finally ran out, as a string of revenue-positive months gave way to a 5% stumble and $7 million. Hollywood Perryville was off 4% to $6.5 million. Over in West Virginia, revenue was down 2% despite 5% higher winnings at the tables. Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races didn’t have good luck at the tables, down 9%, leading to a 5% overall decline.
CEO Tom Reeg to make up his mind as to whether or not he was going to sell Las Vegas Strip assets. Phil Ruffin openly covets a second Strip resort and if Planet Hollywood is out of reach, the Cosmo makes a good second choice. Speaking of seconds, jilted Caesars Entertainment suitor Tilman Fertitta is probably looking for some retail therapy. How much better might the Cosmo do if rebranded as a Golden Nugget? And even though it already has the Tropicana Las Vegas, don’t count out Penn National Gaming. If it wants a more state-of-the-art Strip resort we’d certainly understand. At any rate, those are the obvious candidates, although we wouldn’t rule out acquisitive Churchill Downs or another dark-horse candidate. After all, it must irk Full House Resorts CEO Dan Lee that he has to go out of town whenever he wants to visit one of his casinos.
together in this fashion. (It must be the Jeff Koons Popeye.) Slot players were evenly divided between the sexes in a mix of blacks, whites and Asians. Latinos seemed to prefer the table games. “To those accustomed to seeing area restaurants and bars dominated by white faces, the contrast is stark, and casino visitors seem to have embraced the melting pot mix,” chronicled the Globe. Enthused African-American player Felicia Kornegay, “You know, a lot of places you go to, especially in Boston, you go and you feel excluded. You don’t feel that here.”
within a stone’s throw of I-294. Habitués of Las Vegas locals casinos might not impressed, architecturally speaking. You won’t see anything here you can’t readily find at M Resort or Green Valley Ranch. The buffet is solid but not outstanding (and you can only get crab legs on Tuesday), despite the stiff price: $29.95. The decor makes a fetish of the right angle, a frequently reiterated motif, softened by drop-down lighting fixtures that look like oversized Christmas balls.
relatively soon, so we can start the process.” Casino booster Sen. Terry Link (D) is 
“Chinese tourists are a high-spending source market and their visitation numbers to the US have been growing rapidly in recent years.”—from a GlobalData report on 
aforesaid choices are obvious ones is offset by their also being good choices—and values for the dollar, which is always important to emphasize ever since Sin City ceased to be a bargain destination. The Pinball Hall of Fame is 
has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”—from George Washington‘s 
regional data base,” he told reporters. “So I would expect that we would be a seller of a Strip asset, but that decision has not been made.” So, not multiple Strip properties anymore but just one (Planet Hollywood seems the most coveted). Maybe. But maybe not. Also, at least one Wall Street analyst is questioning Reeg’s promised $500 million in cost savings, saying it’ll be closer to $250 million. The one employee whose job is safe, in some shape or form, is Caesars CEO Anthony Rodio, who has key shareholder Carl Icahn in his corner. Any move by Reeg to dump Rodio risks the wrath of Icahn.
between downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Genting owns waterfront real estate in Miami it has been unable to monetize, mostly because the idea of casino megaresorts never gained traction in the Sunshine State. (Las Vegas Sands took a run at it, then just plain gave up.) Two cronies of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez round out the group making the unsolicited monorail pitch. (If the track can really deliver tourists to the beach, it would make more sense than, say, its nowhere-to-nowhere Las Vegas counterpart.)
11% to $517.5 million. Slots were a bright spot, up 2% on 2.5% higher coin-in. But baccarat win fell a cataclysmic 55%, despite only 4% less wagering, which means that “bad” is something of an understatement when describing the house’s luck. (JP Morgan analyst Joseph Greff thinks the wipeout was confined to six casinos. No prizes for guessing which, however.) Non-baccarat table games were but 2% lower.-
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