{"id":21488,"date":"2018-04-10T07:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=21488"},"modified":"2018-04-10T07:59:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:59:29","slug":"midwest-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/midwest-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Business was booming in Ohio<\/strong>, where the state’s casino industry saw revenues increase 9%. Hollywood Columbus<\/strong> ($22.5 million) was up 8.5% while Hollywood Toledo<\/strong> ($20 million) they gained 8%. Hollywood \"\"Dayton<\/strong> (+9%) and Hollywood Mahoning Valley<\/strong> (+13%) were phat, with slot win\/day of $331 in Dayton<\/strong> and $355\/slot\/day in Austintown<\/strong>. Despite being closed two days due to flooding, Belterra Park<\/strong> managed to stay level with last year, grossing $7.5 million. Scioto Downs<\/strong> leapt 11% to $16 million and Miami Valley Gaming<\/strong> jumped 11.5% to $15.5 million. The Jack<\/strong> threesome were all on the positive side of the ledger for once. Dan Gilbert<\/strong> grossed $20 million in Cleveland<\/strong> (up 12%), $12 million at Thistledown<\/strong> (15% higher) and $19.5 million in Cincinnati<\/strong> (5% better). The strong showing by Belterra Park should give owner-to-be Boyd Gaming<\/strong> hope that it can turn this asset around.<\/p>\n

* Missouri<\/strong> casinos also had a good March, up 2.5% for an overall gross of $168.5 million. Business in St. Louis<\/strong> was good (+4%) and a bit off in Kansas City<\/strong> (-1%). Good performance by slot machines more than offset bad luck at the tables. Ameristar St. Charles<\/strong> set the pace, grossing $25.5 \"\"million (+2.5%), while neighbor Hollywood St. Louis<\/strong> pulled in $22 million, down 4%. Tropicana Entertainment<\/strong>‘s Lumiere Place<\/strong>\u00a0had a whopping good month, up 18%, grossing $16.5 million, while River City<\/strong> grossed $22 million, for a 5% increase.<\/p>\n

In Kansas City, only Penn National Gaming<\/strong>‘s Argosy Riverside<\/strong> was revenue-positive, up 6% to $15.5 million. Ameristar Kansas City<\/strong> lost a percentage point, grossing $18 million, while Harrah’s North Kansas \"\"City<\/strong> ceded 5.5%, grossing $15.5 million. Isle of Capri Kansas City<\/strong> was down 9% to $7 million. Affinity Gaming<\/strong>‘s rural Mark Twain Casino<\/strong> was up 10.4% to $3.5 million. Of the various and sundry Isle of Capri<\/strong>-branded properties, Cape Girardeau<\/strong> was the standout, leaping 10% to $6.5 million. Considering that the two Ameristar properties were the highest grossers in the Show-Me State, Boyd has to be very happy about its prospects when it takes them over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Business was booming in Ohio, where the state’s casino industry saw revenues increase 9%. Hollywood Columbus ($22.5 million) was up 8.5% while Hollywood Toledo ($20 million) they gained 8%. Hollywood Dayton (+9%) and Hollywood Mahoning Valley (+13%) were phat, with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,40,60,154,199,190,85,39,71,69,30,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488"}],"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=21488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21494,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488\/revisions\/21494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}