{"id":20290,"date":"2017-10-04T07:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=20290"},"modified":"2017-10-04T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:20:57","slug":"pugilism-pays-off-for-vegas-ho-dissed-by-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/pugilism-pays-off-for-vegas-ho-dissed-by-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Pugilism pays off for Vegas; Ho dissed by son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those tomato cans Floyd Mayweather<\/strong> and Conor McGregor<\/strong> were very good for business<\/a> when they battled on August 26.\u00a0\u201cIt could \"\"be a while before we see money like this bet on a fight again,\u201d said Betfair<\/strong>‘s Katie Baylis<\/strong>. Indeed. Betfair took in its biggest handle ever: $79 million, of which $16 million was wagered in the last five hours before the slugfest. In Las Vegas<\/strong>, sports books logged $65 million in bets, $15 million more than the tainted Mayweather\/Manny Pacquiao<\/strong> bout. (The latter had a torn rotator cuff yet the fight was allowed to proceed as scheduled.) The match\u00a0had a ripple effect on casino play, which saw revenues up 16% in the Las Vegas area and even 10.5% higher in tiny Mesquite<\/strong>. The Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong>‘s Michael Layton<\/strong> said,\u00a0\u201cThis fight was a tremendous event from a gaming win perspective for not just sports wagering but also table games and slots.\u201d<\/p>\n

* With Stanley Ho<\/strong> pretty much a vegetable, son Lawrence Ho<\/strong> is taking the moment to throw shade<\/a> on his father’s alleged inability to remain competitive in the casino industry. \u201cMy father \"\"was super lucky to have a monopoly for forty years, but the Macao<\/strong> government wanted to open it up to competition. It was the right decision,\u201d the younger Ho told the South China Morning Post<\/em>. While Lawrence believes\u00a0\u201cMacao will always be the best integrated resort gaming market in the world,” he also says of Japan<\/strong>,\u00a0\u201cNothing will hold me back there.\u201d Considering that MGM Resorts International<\/strong> and Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> have already put $10 billion apiece on the table that’s mighty rash talk. We’ll see if Ho fils<\/em> knows something we don’t. Frankly, Las Vegas could use some of his bold thinking.<\/p>\n

* Las Vegas’ propensity for themed luxury suites is being consciously aped by casinos in Australia<\/strong>. Casino critic Stephen Clark<\/strong> opines on three suites<\/a> in the Astral Tower<\/strong> of Sydney<\/strong>‘s Star Casino<\/strong>, one of which puts him in a Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> frame of mind. Yowzers! Too much information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those tomato cans Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor were very good for business when they battled on August 26.\u00a0\u201cIt could be a while before we see money like this bet on a fight again,\u201d said Betfair‘s Katie Baylis. Indeed. Betfair … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,103,37,171,94,62,126,74,61,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290"}],"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=20290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20293,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions\/20293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}