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| News 1 |
| “I could almost imagine Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist working behind enemy lines on behalf of the Internet poker industry.” |
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| News 2 |
| How much of the billions of dollars in capital spending planned in Atlantic City over the next several years will be put on hold as resort bosses await the outcome of efforts to make the 150-200 acres of Bader Field real estate yet another casino zone? |
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| News 3 |
| Wynn Resorts stock slipped more than ten dollars a share during the several weeks following its Sept. 6, opening in Macau. |
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| News 4 |
| The South Coast is becoming the South Point as Michael Gaughan completes his purchase of the hotel and casino that he’s buying back from Boyd Gaming . . . |
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| News 5 |
| The loud sounds of discontent rumbling back and forth between the Stanley Ho and Sheldon Adelson organizations in Macau almost make it possible for Steve Wynn to walk through a room unnoticed. |
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News 6 |
| Bill Wortman remembers stopping by the Desert Inn a week or two before it closed. That was five, maybe six years ago. |
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| News 7 |
| Boyd Gaming’s moving forward with plans to join the club, so to speak, and link its roughly 20,000 Nevada slots through a single players club. That club may involve an extension of the current Club Coast which was a pioneer among single card player marketing programs |
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| News 8 |
| MGM Mirage had the three highest ebitda-producing properties on the Las Vegas Strip during this year’s second quarter, according to Chairman Terry Lanni who says the MGM Grand, Bellagio and Mandalay Bay collectively generated more than $280 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Bellagio’s $131 million in ebitda was a record for any quarter. |
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| News 9 |
| Here we go again . . . maybe. Remember when the level of high-end Asian business in Las Vegas plummeted following the events of 9/11, events that included the Great Anthrax Scare. |
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| News 10 |
| The images associated with “The King’s” power as an entertainer continue to resonate years after his death. The Rat Pack possessed a similar ability to live, if you will, beyond the lifetimes of its members, but the list of others who might arguably have been said to wield such influence in Las Vegas is a short one . . . very short. |
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| News 11 |
| There’s always that moment in time, a single experience that causes you to look around with a startled expression and say, whoa! |
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| News 12 |
| Whatever Jamie Gold was or wasn’t as a so-called Hollywood agent, one thing seems assured. |
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| News 13 |
| Business levels at Mississippi Gulf Coast casinos will get a very serious look over the next several weeks. Yes, the shape of the future is more visible what with two of the biggest Biloxi operators re-opening by the end of the month. |
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