{"id":25078,"date":"2019-10-10T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=25078"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T16:01:39","slug":"whats-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/whats-in-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio<\/strong> and Illinois<\/strong> weathered a September with one less weekend day just fine. Indiana<\/strong> and Missouri<\/strong>, not so much. The Hoosier State was down 2.5% (on a weak comparison). The \"\"gross was $173 million. There were some big swings and roundabouts, but too isolated to allow for generalizations. In the northern tier, Horseshoe Hammond<\/strong> continued to be a powerhouse, up 7% to $34 million. Majestic Star I<\/strong> was also revenue-positive, up 1% to $7 million. No such luck at Majestic Star II<\/strong>, tumbling 9% to $4.5 million. Blue Chip<\/strong>\u00a0(pictured<\/em>) was flat at $13 million and Ameristar East Chicago<\/strong> shed 5.5% to gross $17 million.<\/p>\n

In southern Indiana, Boyd Gaming<\/strong> got absolutely hammered at Belterra<\/strong>, falling 18% to just under $8 million. Horseshoe Southern Indiana<\/strong> also had a terrible month, spiraling 13.5% to $17 million. (All these things are relative, of course. Boyd would have loved to have had a ‘terrible’ $17 million month.) Tropicana Evansville<\/strong> shed 5% to $12 million, Rising Sun<\/strong> gained 2.5% to $4.5 million and Hollywood Lawrenceburg<\/strong> was up a percentage point to $13 million. French Lick Resort<\/strong> was off 4%, to $7.5 million. Hoosier Park<\/strong> slipped 2% to $15.5 million but Indiana Downs<\/strong> was flat at $21 million.<\/p>\n

As for the Show-Me State, its casinos grossed $140 million, down 3% from a decent September 2018. Slots ($119 million) were off 4% while tables ($21 million) gained a percentage \"\"point. The St. Louis<\/strong> market defended its turf better than did Kansas City<\/strong>. Still tops at $21.5 million (flat) was Ameristar St. Charles<\/strong>, followed by Hollywood St. Louis<\/strong>‘ $19 million, down 2.5%. River City<\/strong> actually gained, up 1.5% to $18.5 million. Eldorado Resorts<\/strong> seems to have bit off more than it could chew at Lumiere Place<\/strong>, down 7.5% to $12 million (bring back Tropicana Entertainment<\/strong>!).<\/p>\n

Everything was far from up to date in Kansas City, where everybody yielded less than the absence of one weekend day could explain. Ameristar Kansas City<\/strong> fell 7% to $15.5 million while Harrah’s North Kansas City<\/strong> grossed $14.5 million, off 4%. Argosy Riverside<\/strong>‘s $13 million represented a 5.5% decline and Isle of Capri Kansas City<\/strong> slid 5.5% to $5 million. None of the five outstate casinos reported anything of consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio and Illinois weathered a September with one less weekend day just fine. Indiana and Missouri, not so much. The Hoosier State was down 2.5% (on a weak comparison). The gross was $173 million. There were some big swings and … 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":[60,244,199,198,68,39,69,111,265,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078"}],"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=25078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25079,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions\/25079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}