{"id":12580,"date":"2014-01-29T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T20:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12580"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:19:20","slug":"now-everybody-wants-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/now-everybody-wants-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Now everybody wants it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Circuits\"<\/a>Like a Smith College<\/strong> student ‘experimenting’ with same-sex dalliance, the Massachusetts Lottery<\/strong> wants experimental online gambling<\/a>, with a view toward possible for-money play somewhere down the road. “[I]in the interests of preserving and protecting the Lottery, we simply want to ensure that we have a solid understanding of the technology and logistics of online gaming should this market space become more competitive<\/em>” ran the official explanation. “If we do not start to prepare for the future generation of lottery players we\u2019ll find ourselves with a smaller player base<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The Lottery would theoretically go ‘live’ with Internet<\/strong> gambling when the state’s casinos open, escalating the warfare for customers’ gambling dollars. A bill to authorize for-money online-lottery play has already been introduced in the state Senate. It has the support of the state treasury’s\u00a0Online Products Task Force<\/strong>. Even if online gambling has been an early disappointment in Delaware<\/strong> and New Jersey<\/strong>, look for other states to start nibbling at the apple … as Bulgaria<\/strong> is already doing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like his Macao<\/strong> rival, Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>,\u00a0Lui Che-woo<\/strong> has no use for \"Galaxy<\/a>\"Galaxy<\/a>
\nretirement. The 84-year-old oligarch of Galaxy Entertainment<\/strong> is planning massive expansion on his home turf and now has his eyes on the U.S. It would be a logical extension of a real estate empire that includes 13 Yankee hotels already. He’s a man who thinks big: He’s spending $2.6 billion on the second phase of his Cotai Strip<\/strong> expansion and $7.75 billion on Phases III and IV.<\/p>\n

The slightly eccentric (he wears hats indoors) Che-woo is keeping mum on his American plans. He has committed an aggregate $5.2 billion to Taiwan<\/strong> and Japan<\/strong>, should casinos be legalized in either country. After posting a $1 billion-plus profit last year, Galaxy would be well-equipped to go shopping in the U.S., where casinos are a buyers’ market. Perhaps Carl Icahn<\/strong> has finally found someone who will rid him of Fontainebleau<\/strong>. It’s worth the price of a phone call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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