{"id":11276,"date":"2013-08-09T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2013-08-09T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T20:09:12","slug":"july-in-a-c-borgata-revel-triumphant-cosmo-the-right-amount-of-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/july-in-a-c-borgata-revel-triumphant-cosmo-the-right-amount-of-why\/","title":{"rendered":"July in A.C.: Borgata, Revel triumphant; Cosmo: The right amount of &#8216;Why?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11009\" title=\"revel_0494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/revel_0494-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/revel_0494-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/revel_0494-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/revel_0494.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Last month was good for <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> in the sense that revenue was only 4% off last year&#8217;s pace. The upper-tier properties fared exceptionally, with <strong>Borgata<\/strong> ascending 19%, driven by a two-third increase in table win, and <strong>Revel<\/strong>, fueled by its &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Lose&#8221; promotion, up 33%. At $23 million, Revel was firmly in the middle of the pack, no longer helping to bring up the rear. It&#8217;s obviously not impinging on Revel&#8217;s <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8199\" title=\"CaesarsBallysAC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CaesarsBallysAC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CaesarsBallysAC.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CaesarsBallysAC-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>business, but some of the middle-market properties were hurt, particularly <strong>Tropicana Atlantic City<\/strong> (-26%), <strong>Showboat<\/strong> (-19%), <strong>Bally&#8217;s Wild Wild West<\/strong> (-14%, <em>right<\/em>) and <strong>Harrah&#8217;s Marina<\/strong> (-11%). <strong>Resorts Atlantic City<\/strong> actually posted a 6% increase, besting all the other middle- and low-end casinos. And would the last person to leave <strong>Trump Plaza<\/strong> (-25%, $8 million) please turn off the lights?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cosmo query<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve received a <em>Question of the Day<\/em> submission about the poor performance of the <strong>Cosmopolitan<\/strong>&#8216;s casino floor, so I&#8217;m <!--more-->throwing it open to you. Have you played at The Cosmo once, maybe twice but never again? If so, why? Thanks for any insights you care to lend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month was good for Atlantic City in the sense that revenue was only 4% off last year&#8217;s pace. The upper-tier properties fared exceptionally, with Borgata ascending 19%, driven by a two-third increase in table win, and Revel, fueled by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/july-in-a-c-borgata-revel-triumphant-cosmo-the-right-amount-of-why\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,60,66,28,42,14,7,53,167,157,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11277,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}