“It means self-sufficiency, the sovereignty that we had for millennia. Gaming will be part of who we are, but it will not define who we are … Lifting our own, and our community, absolutely defines who we are.” — Ponca Tribe Chairman Larry Wright Jr., at the opening of Prairie Flower Casino.
debt load has 
fined Affinity’s Mark Twain Casino $50,000 for repeated incidences of cheating while the table games department “knew, or strongly suspected, the activity was occurring, but said nothing.” According to the MGC, casino staff was “aiding others in cheating, lack of table game supervisions, and failing to report such violations.” Mark Twain, upon learning of the MGC probe, sacked three of the individuals involved, who were also arrested on related indictments. 
Covered Capital was clearly eager to be shot of what it 
is paying $326 million for a slight majority in an asset valued at $1.45 billion, with the option to pay another $174 million over time. What went unsaid was that Churchill Downs has tapped a huge cash spigot, as Rivers Casino is far and away the dominant casino in Illinois, month in and month out. No competitor has ever come close. It also means that Churchill Downs will probably be shopping some 336 acres at Arlington Racetrack, which it had been keeping in its pocket as a potential casino site. JP Morgan analyst Joseph Greff theorizes that the value of such a transaction could be worth as much as $18/share.
week. Early polling had it down, 41% to 48%, but it’s now turned the tide, 49% to 43%. Issue 4 would convert Oaklawn Jockey Club and Southland Racing Corp. into racinos, and open the path for bidding on casinos on as-yet-undecided sites in Jefferson County and Pope County. Just for the record, S&G favors a “yes” vote on the issue. Financial projections — always to be taken with a gran of salt — have the four casinos producing $12o million in annual tax revenue, 55% of which will be dedicated to the state general fund.
Greff admitted as much, while saying that Las Vegas Strip cash flow beat the Street’s projections by 5%. Looking ahead, “2019 expectations are reasonably set.” The full half of the glass includes better group business next quarter, increasing revenue from Park MGM and continuing recovery at formerly hexed Mandalay Bay. Greff tried to reconcile MGM’s stated goals of reducing leverage with a New York Post report that it covets Caesars Entertainment (which would create no end of redundancies, but let’s save that for another time). The glass is perhaps half-empty due to much-lower-than-expected Macao cash flow, thanks to a “very slow” (Greff) ramp up of MGM Cotai. Also, sadly, fourth-quarter comparisons will be easier in part because MGM business slackened notably after the Mandalay Bay Massacre late last year. This translated into $40 million less cash flow, lower room revenues, and weaker table game and slot handle.
Cameron McKnight to call them “better than expected.” Meanwhile, Nevada as a whole was up 1% and locals revenues rocketed 16% into the stratosphere. The prior-year comparison on the Strip was hardly a difficult one: +4.5%. So what went wrong? Baccarat win fell through the floor, down 27.5%, with play 15.5% lower than 2017. That negated a 5% gain in slot win and accompanied a 4.5% drop-off in non-baccarat table games, despite almost 5% higher wagering. “In a 3Q that should be forgotten, LV Strip [gross gaming revenue] declined 7.2% Y/Y, while statewide GGR declined 2.2%,” wrote JP Morgan‘s Joseph Greff. Take baccarat out of the equation and, thanks to slots ($285 million), Strip gambling revenues were actually 1% up. Nothing about which to get excited but a silver lining in a rather dark cloud. (Airline passengers coming into Las Vegas were down 1%, by the way.)
daily fantasy sports. Credit Suisse analyst Cameron McKnight writes that this ruling means “sports betting legislation could be similarly challenged in NY.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s office is still mulling the potential ramifications of Connolly’s ruling and presumably brainstorming an appeal. Plaintiffs’ attorney Cornelius Murray is pressing for an immediate shutdown of all DFS sites in New York State. DraftKings and FanDuel, meanwhile, are conducting business as usual.
autumn to mid-winter). The MGC is looking into sexual-misconduct allegations against Steve Wynn and, mainly, the concealment of a $7.5 million paternity settlement from Bay State regulators. The MGC has 
$1.79/share. That’s $132.5 million for five casinos. CEO Dan Lee (left), in tandem with board chairman Brad Tirpak, 
of [concession] renewal, it has had no communication with the government on the issue.” Sands’ $1 billion capex reinvestment in Sands Cotai Central (soon to be The Londoner) is deemed a “sensible allocation of capital as it proves LVS’s commitment to help develop the Macau market, and reorients an asset whose brand and market position has struggled since opening.” More ominously, McKnight cites a study that says the Chinese public displays “a growing reluctance to spend suggests 
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