{"id":18812,"date":"2016-09-01T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18812"},"modified":"2016-09-01T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:36:15","slug":"case-bets-aria-atlantic-city-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-aria-atlantic-city-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Aria, Atlantic City, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-37095120\/embed\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inside <strong>Aria<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;eye in the sky&#8221; &#8230; and also probably the last time you&#8217;ll see a player in a tuxedo on a <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> casino floor.<\/p>\n<p>* After eight long\u00a0years &#8212; and without including <strong>Internet<\/strong> revenue &#8212; all eight <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> casinos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/local\/item\/96719-for-the-first-time-in-8-years-every-atlantic-city-casino-is-making-a-profit\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">reported increased operating profit<\/a> in 2Q16. Of course the roof will fall in at <strong>Trump Taj Mahal<\/strong> when strike-affected 3Q16 numbers are reported. But for now,\u00a0&#8220;Having the amount of casinos we have now compared to the 12 that we had, people are able to bring in more customers,&#8221; says <strong>New Jersey Casino Control Commission<\/strong> Chairman <strong>Matthew Levinson<\/strong>. Is there any chance that good news like this will <!--more-->help persuade voters to stave off a gambling expansion in November&#8217;s referendum? Halfway around the world, the gross domestic product of <strong>Macao<\/strong> continued to slouch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-08-30\/macau-quarterly-gdp-drop-narrows-to-7-1-as-gaming-slump-eases\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">although not so nearly so badly<\/a> as this winter and despite a 16% downturn in baccarat revenue.<\/p>\n<p>* As expected, <strong>Tioga Downs<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbng.com\/news\/local\/NY-Commission-licenses-Tioga-Downs-for-Las-Vegas-style-gaming-391774871.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">received a casino license<\/a>, the first of four upstate <strong>New York<\/strong> projects to do so. The track had a head start on its competitors, having already been a racino when owner <strong>Jeff Gural<\/strong> got the state&#8217;s permission to upgrade to Vegas-style gambling.<\/p>\n<p>* According to <strong>Inc. 5000<\/strong>, the number-one company in <strong>Oklahoma<\/strong> is burgeoning <strong>Casino Cash Trac<\/strong>. As its name implies, the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/business\/smallbusiness\/tulsa-based-casino-cash-trac-puts-gaming-operations-on-fast\/article_2e4a30aa-0c6d-531b-a85d-17f129ce5dec.html\" target=\"_blank\">helps casinos follow the money<\/a> &#8212; a more important consideration in these days of heightened money-laundered awareness. CCT has 100 clients (mainly tribal) in 10 states and has never lost a customer. Says a CCT executive,\u00a0\u201cSometimes casinos have 10 people putting something in Excel.\u00a0With our software, now they can do that with three people and give those people other jobs within the casino.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Aria&#8216;s &#8220;eye in the sky&#8221; &#8230; and also probably the last time you&#8217;ll see a player in a tuxedo on a Las Vegas casino floor. * After eight long\u00a0years &#8212; and without including Internet revenue &#8212; all eight Atlantic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-aria-atlantic-city-etc\/\">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":[23,56,14,26,37,62,11,101,115,25,8,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812"}],"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=18812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18816,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812\/revisions\/18816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}