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M Resort reshuffle in Vegas Seven

Even though I’m having a phenomenally busy week, I can still post a link to my latest piece for Green Felt Journal in Vegas Seven. It’s about the reaction at the M Resort to Penn National’s recent debt acquisition: On a recent Saturday afternoon, there was no sign that any change was imminent on the […]

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Slots in MD offer more competition

Maryland’s first slots parlor has just opened. From the Philly Inquirer: Tim Wilmott, chief operating officer and president of Wyomissing, Pa.-based Penn National Gaming Inc., joined Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley in a ribbon-cutting for the $97.5 million casino, whose doors first opened to the public Monday after trial test days last weekend.O'Malley praised Penn National

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I’m gobsmacked

Breaking news from the LVRJ: Penn National Gaming will not submit a bid for next week’s planned bankruptcy court auction of the shuttered Fontainebleau project, a company spokesman said Thursday. via Penn won’t pursue Fontainebleau – Breaking News – ReviewJournal.com. What? I don’t believe this. It was supposed to be a sure thing! This is

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More death spiral talk in AC

This is a well-written NY Times article about where Atlantic City is today, even if it’s the same song we’ve been hearing for decades now: Just a few years ago, Atlantic City was boomtown U.S.A. Day-tripping retirees plunked quarter after quarter into slot machines at the casino warehouses lining the Boardwalk. The city was in

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