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Asian high rollers: the new thing?

Breaking news out of the NY Times: casinos like Asian high rollers: Casino operators have long recognized that a large number of Asians, especially Chinese and Chinese-Americans, are avid gamblers. For years, casinos have dispatched special buses to any Chinatown within a day’s drive. Recently, though, casinos have become much more aggressive in wooing Asians […]

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AC of tomorrow?

What’s the Atlantic City of the future going to look like? I think we have an inkling of an answer with this story from the Press: Atlantic City casinos may be opposed to competition at Bader Field, but the director of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority told a Senate Committee on Thursday that the property

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Sands sale

I stopped by the Sands garage sale yesterday, and it was about what you’d expect the latter stages of a casino garage sale to be: depressing. There really wasn’t anything good left, and the former casino floor, without all the blinking slot machines, just looked cavernous and even gloomy. There were still a few matresses

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Taj best in AC?

Among Trump properties, it is–it’s about three times the casino as the Marina and Plaza. From the AC Press: Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino or Trump Marina Hotel Casino, or both, probably would be demolished and redeveloped if the proposed sale of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. is completed, they say. “Most comments heard from other

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Lee on AC

Pinnacle Entertainment had its first quarter conference call today, and CEO Daniel Lee had some interesting thoughts on Atlantic City. I don’t usually do this, but here are some excerpts from the transcript by Bloomberg: Well, we’ve been consistently saying we expect to build something on the same order of magnitude as the first phase

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Sands ends with a garage sale

It seems apropos. From the AC Press: Actually, hundreds of thousands of items will be up for grabs as the old Sands Casino Hotel clears out its vast contents in an “everything must go” sale beginning 10 a.m. Thursday. The public sale will continue for the next 30 to 45 days until the place is

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It’s not TV, it’s AC on HBO

I just found out about this from Yahoo: Director Martin Scorsese has teamed with his “Departed” co-star Mark Wahlberg for an HBO drama series about the development of Atlantic City. The project will be developed in conjunction with the book, “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City” by Nelson Johnson, which

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Down in the depths on the 80th floor

It’s a busy day for me, because this morning I was live on KNPR’s State of Nevada. You can click that link for a link directly to the show, and I think you can even listen. I’m part of the panel in the first segment. It was a lively talk about pro sports potentially coming

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Foxwoods AC?

In the early 1990s, competiton from Foxwoods forced many changes on the Atlantic City casino industry, most of them good: new games like keno and poker, 24-hour gaming, and several others. Now, Foxwoods, arm-in-arm with MGM Mirage, might–might–be coming to the World’s Favorite Playground. From the AC Press: The American Indian tribe that struck it

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Blackpool blunder

Even though I’ve never been to Blackpool, England, I’ve always had affinity for it–at least since I heard people describing it as the Atlantic City of the UK. Like AC, the city has had some bad beats in the past. Also like my hometown, it has been looking to casino gaming to rejuvenate it. But

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