{"id":2225,"date":"2010-02-11T12:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2010-02-11T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:17:14","slug":"igt-quits-japan-vdara-goes-bargain-friendly-singapore-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/igt-quits-japan-vdara-goes-bargain-friendly-singapore-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"IGT quits Japan; Vdara goes bargain-friendly; Singapore opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rising-sun\"After losing $21 million in Japan<\/strong> last year, IGT<\/strong> is saying a not-so-fond farewell<\/a> to the Land of the Rising Sun. Its sales of pachislot machines<\/a> had been in decline and were nowhere near the volume needed to reach break-even. According to a J.P. Morgan<\/strong> research note, governmental tweaking of pachislot rules had ironed much of the game’s volatility away, flattening its customer appeal. If Japan ever OKs Vegas-style casinos, IGT will be back faster than you can say “Jimmy Doolittle<\/a>” — but Japanese casinos have been “just around the corner” for years now, so don’t go holding your breath.<\/p>\n

D’ya remember<\/strong> how, not so long ago, MGM Mirage<\/strong> CEO Jim Murren<\/strong> was kind of pooh-poohing the importance of local customers<\/a> to CityCenter<\/strong>? It sounds as though there’s been an ever-so-slight modulation of that tune. Today, Vdara<\/strong> e-mail blasted a 20%-off, week-’round spa promotion<\/a>. If you’re reading this on your mobile device and want to take advantage, text “VDARALV” to 37160. Alas, there’s no additional discount if you tell them S&G<\/em> sent you.<\/p>\n

\"ResortsJust in the nick of time<\/strong>, the high pajandrums who rule Singapore<\/strong> have given their blessing for Resorts World Sentosa<\/strong> to open its casino for Chinese New Year<\/a>. It looked very nip and tuck for a while there but Genting Bhd<\/strong> pulled it off. Singaporeans can also start buying their $70\/day passes (or $1,000\/year all-access pass) to the casino. Make no mistake, this is a huge coup for Genting and a massive embarrassment for Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> which, even with a considerable head start, couldn’t get its act together and thus will miss out on the biggest gambling fortnight of the year. By the time Marina Bay Sands<\/strong>‘ executive team was sacked, it was too late, and while Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> has been putting an exceedingly good face on the whole debacle, it’s a lead-pipe cinch that he’s seething behind his placid fa\u00e7ade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After losing $21 million in Japan last year, IGT is saying a not-so-fond farewell to the Land of the Rising Sun. Its sales of pachislot machines had been in decline and were nowhere near the volume needed to reach break-even. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,120,29,22,11,25,12,108,8,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225"}],"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=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}