VIP Gambling: As High Rollers Desert Macau, Can Other Asian Destinations Win Big?
MACAU — The crowd inside the Sands Macau casino is thick and raucous, but evidence of high rollers is scant. Men wearing track-suit pants and fanny packs vastly outnumber those attired in Armani, and the gambling tables that are crowded…
Music, bowling, sports, shopping eyed for AC Pier Shops
Wayne Parry, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein swept into Atlantic City on Wednesday and made a bold promise: His newly redone waterfront pier complex will soon be the city’s top tourist attraction. Blatstein was…
Daily Fantasy Sports Growth Pushes Leagues to Regulate Players
Mason Levinson, Bloomberg The rapid evolution of fantasy sports from casual season-long recreation to high-stakes daily Internet games has given U.S. professional sports another source of revenue as well as a headache in determining player- participation policies. Over the last…
Revel: Only 1 buyer qualified for ex-Atlantic City casino
Wayne Parry, Associated Press · April 2, 2015 at 10:27 am CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) – A consultant vetting bids for Atlantic City’s former Revel casino says that although 18 potential buyers have expressed interest, Florida developer Glenn Straub is the…
Icahn: Union costs helped kill 4 Atlantic City casinos
Wayne Parry, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says union benefit costs and work rules were a big reason four of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos closed last year. Icahn said on Tuesday that Local 54…
Rival bidder emerges for shuttered Revel casino
Wayne Parry, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A billionaire Manhattan developer and veteran New Jersey real estate executive are pursuing Atlantic City’s former Revel casino, according to a court filing Tuesday. The court filing by former business tenants…
High Roller marks year of revolution
Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The High Roller — Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s observation wheel at the center of the Strip — marked its one-year anniversary Tuesday evening with company officials calling the attraction a success despite the attraction falling below…
Nevada and Strip gaming revenues decline in February
Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Maybe it was baccarat. Maybe the calendar was to blame. In other words, analysts looked to make sense out of February’s gaming revenue results in Nevada where Strip casinos declined 4.4 percent and every reporting…
Amaya Gaming hopes to launch PokerStars site in New Jersey
Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal · Canada-based Amaya Gaming, which spent $4.9 billion to acquire PokerStars last year, said Tuesday it hopes to launch an American-based PokerStars site in New Jersey by the fall. During a conference call to discuss…
Texas: Underground slot parlors are a $2 Billion industry
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