{"id":11552,"date":"2013-09-17T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2013-09-17T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T21:20:07","slug":"making-the-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/making-the-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4019\" title=\"Sheldon pasha\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sheldon-pasha-285x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sheldon-pasha-285x300.gif 285w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sheldon-pasha-142x150.gif 142w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sheldon-pasha.gif 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/>Congratulations to the following casino industry figures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/business\/new-mix-nevadans-make-forbes-400-list-richest-people-us\" target=\"_blank\">for making it onto the <em>Forbes 400<\/em><\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>#11: <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> CEO <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>. He&#8217;s richer than you are.<\/p>\n<p>#18: <strong>Fontainebleau<\/strong> owner <strong>Carl Icahn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#27: <strong>Scientific Games<\/strong> lead owner <strong>Ron Perelman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#36: Casino investor<strong> John Paulson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#118: <strong>Kirk Kerkorian<\/strong>, no introduction needed<\/p>\n<p>#134: <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, spokesmodel for <!--more--><strong>Trump Entertainment Resorts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#184: <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong>, visionary at large<\/p>\n<p>#222: <strong>Phil Ruffin<\/strong>, Mr. <strong>Treasure Island<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5782\" title=\"fertitta_web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fertitta_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/>#235: <strong>Golden Nugget<\/strong>(s) owner <strong>Tilman Fertitta <\/strong>(<em>right<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>#296: <strong>Elaine Wynn<\/strong>, Steve&#8217;s former better half<\/p>\n<p>#386: <strong>Lorenzo Fertitta<\/strong> and <strong>Frank Fertitta III<\/strong>, wheeler dealers and <strong>Station Casinos<\/strong> owners<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and if you don&#8217;t see your name above, there&#8217;s always next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the following casino industry figures for making it onto the Forbes 400 &#8230; #11: Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson. He&#8217;s richer than you are. #18: Fontainebleau owner Carl Icahn #27: Scientific Games lead owner Ron Perelman #36: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/making-the-grade\/\">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":[82,42,59,11,119,160,12,57,32,129,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552"}],"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=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}