Atlantic City Adrift as Casino Closings Sap Job Market
As Beach Boys music blared from casino speakers and leathery tourists ambled along the boardwalk, vendor Mohammad Haroon sized up the prospects of New Jersey’s gambling hub as its casinos begin folding. Atlantic City, he said, doesn’t stand a chance….
Sands China Q2 profit jumps 27 pct to US$620.2 mln
Sands China Ltd’s net profit rose to US$620.2 million (MOP4.96 billion) in the second quarter of this year, 27 percent more than a year earlier, Bloomberg reports. The news agency quotes the Macau casino operator’s parent company, Las Vegas Sands…
Ralph Reed Is Helping One Gambling Interest Fight Another — Again
Vegas vs. the Internet. “It could go either way,” says Jack Abramoff. Former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed has stepped into another internecine war between gambling interests, with 11 state chapters of his Faith & Freedom Coalition joining a well-funded…
Unit Bet Size and Heat
I have read books, notably Wong’s book and some others, that suggest that you draw heat with the amount of your buy in and the size of your unit bet. Next trip to Vegas, I plan to increase my unit…
Vegas August 24 to 28
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IGT sold in $6.4 billion deal with lottery giant GTECH
Slot machine manufacturer International Game Technology has been sold for $6.4 billion to lottery giant GTECH in a merger that will create the world’s largest gaming equipment provider. Under terms of the agreement, IGT and GTECH will combine under a…
Firm cuts way back on NJ online earning estimate
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A Wall Street credit rating firm that was among the most pessimistic about the prospects for Internet gambling in New Jersey has cut its already-conservative estimate on the state’s first-year online winnings by more than…
Workers seek to keep endangered casinos open
Trump Plaza ATLANTIC CITY – Now that the shock over the prospect of losing three Atlantic City casinos in the coming months is starting to wear off, many workers and their union are mounting a growing effort to keep them…
What’s going wrong for Atlantic City casinos?
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Betting on the high seas
I just returned from a wonderful 12 night cruise from London through the Baltic Sea. Everything was wonderful, but the casino was unbelievably slow. There were many times that I was able to shoot by myself for 30-40 minutes, then…