{"id":14032,"date":"2014-07-08T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14032"},"modified":"2018-03-17T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T18:18:54","slug":"stations-big-hit-tribal-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/stations-big-hit-tribal-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Station&#8217;s big hit; Tribal roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Graton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Graton-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Graton\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Graton-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Graton-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Graton.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s no doubt that <strong>Graton Resort<\/strong>, less than an hour&#8217;s driving distance from <strong>San Francisco<\/strong>, has been a success for <strong>Station Casinos<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/columns-blogs\/inside-gaming\/california-indian-casino-built-and-managed-station-casinos-rising-top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We just didn&#8217;t know how much<\/a>. In addition to earning a $7.4 million management fee during 1Q14, Station has the casino on pace for 28% return on investment. The investment community is enamored &#8212; and not just of the financial results. &#8220;From an aesthetic perspective, Graton reminds us of a more modern Red Rock [Resort]. The fit and finish of the property was done at a very high level,\u201d said <strong>Credit Suisse<\/strong> analyst <strong>Joel Simkins<\/strong>. That&#8217;s as high a compliment as you can pay a Station property.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria<\/strong> have been raking in the money so fast they&#8217;ve already repaid <!--more-->$152 million of the $200 million they borrowed from Station. Meanwhile, the customers keep coming, many of them bused in from the Chinatown areas of <strong>Oakland<\/strong> and Frisco.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong> For the next two months, the <strong>Seminole Tribe<\/strong> in <strong>Florida<\/strong> will have exclusive use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southflorida.com\/gambling\/south-florida-gambling-blog\/sf-go-seminoles-3d-slot-070814-20140707,0,6065463.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">a new, 3-D slot machine<\/a> developed by <strong>Spielo<\/strong>. (Talk about building a better mousetrap and the world will come to your door.) \u00a0No glasses are required to enjoy the three-dimensionality: Spielo&#8217;s software can &#8220;read&#8221; the movement of your head and adjust the screen according. Slot critic <strong>John Grochowski<\/strong>, not a man known for being extravagant with praise is nonetheless moved to rave,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #292727;\">&#8220;The coins from a big win seemed to jump right off the screen and right at me.\u00a0I reached out and grasped at them.&#8221; I don&#8217;t play slots often but I can&#8217;t wait for &#8220;<strong>Sphinx 3D<\/strong>&#8221; to make it to Nevada.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that Graton Resort, less than an hour&#8217;s driving distance from San Francisco, has been a success for Station Casinos. We just didn&#8217;t know how much. In addition to earning a $7.4 million management fee during 1Q14, Station &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/stations-big-hit-tribal-roundup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,36,45,25,57,8,20,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032"}],"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=14032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21369,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14032\/revisions\/21369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}