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Howard Stutz Gaming Guru - Page 72Moulin Rouge site open for gambling, if only temporarily11 June 2014
For a few hours Wednesday, the Moulin Rouge was open for gambling. Albeit, the action took place inside an air-conditioned trailer near a boarded-up dilapidated building on a corner of the nearly vacant 15-acre Bonanza Road site. Slot machine route operator United Coin managed 16 aging slot games for eight hours inside the trailer. ... (read more)
Stutz: Soccer won't fill Macau's cup11 June 2014
The high-end gamblers who frequent Macau’s ultraritzy private gaming rooms are more interested in whether Cristiano Ronaldo can lead Portugal into the World Cup finals than knowing the next card to come out of the dealing shoe. Maybe it has something to do with Macau’s 400 years as a Portuguese colony. ... (read more)
Gavin Isaacs named CEO of Scientific Games10 June 2014
This was the gaming industry’s worst-kept secret. The appointment Tuesday of Gavin Isaacs as CEO of Scientific Games Corp. had long been expected. Isaacs, 49, who had more than 15 years experience in top-level executive positions with three gaming equipment providers, had been serving as a consultant to Scientific Games Chairman Ronald Perelman, the company’s largest stockholder. ... (read more)
Poll: Americans accept casinos as they would any other business10 June 2014
Americans view casinos as they would any other business in their communities, according to a nationwide survey conducted on behalf of the American Gaming Association (AGA). The results, in which public acceptance of gaming reached 57 percent, will be released today. Leaders of the Washington, D.C.-based ... (read more)
IGT share price surges 15 percent on reports company is for sale10 June 2014
LAS VEGAS -- Reports that slot machine giant IGT - International Game Technology has been put up for sale didn’t surprise Wall Street. Investors reacted to the news by sending the company’s share price up almost 15 percent Monday. An IGT spokesman declined to comment on the report from Reuters, which said the company hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to field sales offers. ... (read more)
Penn National sees trouble on the horizon9 June 2014
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- The nearly empty poker room tells the story. Penn National Gaming’s Hollywood Casino - Charles Town Races is feeling the brunt of neighboring Maryland’s gaming expansion, even though the state’s two newest casinos have yet to open. In summer 2013, the two-year-old Maryland Live!, ... (read more)
For Maryland Live! first in market means best in show8 June 2014
HANOVER, Md. -- On a Monday evening in mid-May, Maryland Live! Casino resembled the Strip on a busy weekend. The stand-alone casino’s banks of 4,300 slot machines were packed with customers. Not all of the 177 table games were in use, but those in service were filled. The 52-table poker room had a waiting list. ... (read more)
At Maryland's National Harbor, MGM Resorts wants to fit in — and stand out8 June 2014
OXON HILL, Md. -- It was an easy sale for Jon Peterson to convince tenants of National Harbor that a $925 million hotel, casino and entertainment complex would be good for the 6-year-old multiuse development. All he needed was the development plan provided by MGM Resorts International, he said. “What MGM ... (read more)
Maryland looks to cash in on casino expansion8 June 2014
OXON HILL, Md. -- A few blocks up the road from a new 85-store outlet mall and across the street from the historical Oxon Hill Manor is Thomas Addison Elementary School. The building has seen better days. Plywood and graffiti cover the shattered windows of the school, which has sat unused for more than a decade. ... (read more)
Baltimore has high hopes for new Caesars casino7 June 2014
BALTIMORE -- If General Manager Chad Barnhill needs a case study to follow when the $442 million Horseshoe Casino Baltimore opens this summer, he can look a few states to the west. In the past two years, Caesars Entertainment Corp., in partnership with Detroit-based Rock Gaming, opened the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland and the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati. ... (read more)
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