{"id":151,"date":"2009-09-29T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/9\/29\/Case-Bets-Wynn-in-Macao"},"modified":"2009-09-29T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T22:30:00","slug":"case-bets-wynn-in-macao-peepshow-strips-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-wynn-in-macao-peepshow-strips-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Wynn in Macao, "Peepshow" strips down"},"content":{"rendered":"

• Steve Wynn<\/strong> is accelerating his timetable<\/a> for developing on the Cotai Strip™<\/strong>. If Wynn continues to learn from his early miscalculations (and I see no reason to expect otherwise), a gaming-centric Wynn Resorts<\/strong> property on Cotai is a far better bet than Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>'s retail- and hotel-heavy business model.<\/p>\n

• While the unpredictable Aubrey O'Day<\/strong> is the ostensible focus of this Peepshow<\/em> update<\/a>, she's not the main point of interest. Rather, it's the spate of cheesparing moves made by BASE Entertainment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The show's band has been thrown overboard and the cast has been reduced, requiring some performers to double in other roles. This explains the disappearance of Katie Webber<\/strong>, a strong vocalist whose big number has now been reassigned to Ms. O'Day. At some point, I'm going to be obliged to revisit Peepshow<\/em><\/a> but I can tell you right now I'm not looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

• Despite Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong>'s juice job on the Sig Rogich Victorville Flyer<\/strong> (aka<\/em> Desert Xpress<\/strong>), backers of an alternative maglev project are fighting back<\/a>. Given that the most difficult part of the SoCal-to-Vegas drive is past once you reach Victorville, why anybody would park their car in the broiling sun and hop aboard Sig's Choo-Choo to Nowhere remains a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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