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30 Years

I had a meeting with Dan Nita this week. Dan is the chief of the four Harrah’s properties in Atlantic City, and he mentioned that it was 30 years this week since Caesars opened. I was surprised but I guess I shouldn’t have been. After all, last year we did a complete story about the […]

Adelson, Rendell: Tables Coming to PA

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the head of Sands Las Vegas Corp., wants to add table games to the company’s new slot parlor in Pennsylvania. At the grand opening of the Bethlehem Sands Casino Resort June 6, Adeldon pledged that the city will become a major resort if the games are legalized in the state.

Asked if table […]

Property Values

You know how you hate it when someone lets their house go to tatters in your neighborhood? You complain that it’s going to bring down the value of all the houses in the neighborhood? And when someone actually does pay a lot less for a house comparable to your’s, the impact on your ability to […]

Asian Aside

While attending last week’s G2E Asia, I learned plenty of things about the Asian market. Like the importance of the mass market to all the operators in Macau. With the opening of the City of Dreams, all operators are paying close attention to the popularity of the new property. It’s less than a week old, […]

Real-Life ‘Server-Based Slots’

We’ve been hearing for years about how “server-based gaming,” or alternately “networked slot floors,” are going to change the industry. It has, until now, been almost entirely a theoretical discussion, at least in the U.S.
We’ve been told that in the new world of the digital slot floor, casinos will benefit from being able to switch […]

Someone Finally Figures It Out

I’ll be the first to admit that I have a stereotypical view of the American South as being a little behind the times, and maybe a little bit, well, dull. After all, there is a surprisingly large number of people in this part of the country who are still upset about the Civil War and […]