With a smile on his face and a calculator between the ears, Jackie Gaughan was proud of his El Cortez whether it came to the craps odds or prime rib special. He loved to walk the floor of his place in a loud sports coat and greeted employees and customers by name. He could be forgiven for noting that his joint netted more profit than flashier operations on Fremont Street and parts of the … [Read more...]

The restart of the nation’s casino industry isn’t the automatic elixir that will revive gaming equipment manufacturers after COVID-19 put a financial beat down on the sector over the last two months. For slot machine makers, recovery is going to require additional time. More than a dozen states and tribal governments are allowing casinos – closed since mid-March due to the coronavirus … [Read more...]

The Reopening of 2020 has begun. and with it, a rethinking of previous business models and assumptions is underway. The first commercial jurisdiction to open was South Dakota; casinos in Deadwood began to reopen May 9. Two weeks later, regulators in Louisiana and Mississippi allowed casinos to reopen after two months of closure due to COVID-19. Other states are expected to follow in June and July, … [Read more...]

Biloxi, Mississippi wrote the playbook 15 years ago on how a casino community recovers from a cataclysmic event after Hurricane Katrina nearly wiped out the Gulf Coast gaming market. Granted, there isn’t a script for dealing with the economic and emotional damage the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on the nation’s entire gaming business over the past two months. No one plans for an entire … [Read more...]

Call me naive, just about everyone does. Say I’m daydreaming if it suits you. But with major casinos in Las Vegas and elsewhere slowly returning to life amid the grave challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, now would be an ideal time for industry leaders and Culinary Union officials to stand together in a genuine show of solidarity for a common goal. You know, their mutual survival. To … [Read more...]

Commercial and tribal casinos in more than a dozen states have slowly begun the process of reopening after being closed for more than two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. There are some casinos, however, that may not ever reopen. In heavily competitive markets, gaming companies may choose to permanently close under-performing casinos, in the hopes that the location can either be sold … [Read more...]

The limited casino reopenings announced last week by states and tribal governments took place so quickly that gaming operators responded in real-time. For example, during Caesars Entertainment’s quarterly conference call Monday afternoon, CEO Tony Rodio discussed the planned health and safety measures for casinos in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Atlantic City, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. In the … [Read more...]

Siegfried & Roy were as Vegas old school as dinner shows, coin-in slot machines, and the $1.99 all-you-can-eat buffet. But Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn were also a connection from the aging Strip showrooms of the 1970s to the elaborate multimillion-dollar theaters that make up the modern Las Vegas resort industry. Their career in Las Vegas touched parts of five decades … [Read more...]

Even without real sports for the past eight weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s been a banner two months for media platform Barstool Sports. The company, which is 36% owned by regional casino operator Penn National Gaming, saw blog traffic jump 20% during April while social media views across Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and other accounts are up 50%. What does that mean for Penn … [Read more...]

As notorious characters go, Louis Tom Dragna didn’t exactly strike fear in the hearts of the hoodlum element. Throughout much of his long life – he died in 2012 at age 92 -- he appeared to spend much of his time living up to – or was it down to? – his family’s reputation. His uncle Jack Dragna was the violent boss of the Los Angeles mob from the 1930s until he dropped dead of a heart attack in … [Read more...]

Sports betting and daily fantasy website DraftKings launched as a public company two weeks ago with extraordinarily little to wager on. That is, unless you have intimate knowledge of soccer from Belarus or Russian table tennis. That fact didn’t deter investors. Shares of DraftKings rose more than 10% on the Nasdaq on the first day of trading, and the pace hasn’t slowed. On Tuesday, the … [Read more...]

We’re starting to get an idea of what casinos will look like once they are allowed to reopen in the era of COVID-19. In some cases, the protocols for hygiene, sanitation, disinfecting, and cleaning on gaming floors are going to rival hospitals. No, a doctor won’t be able to perform open-heart surgery at a blackjack table. But casino operators don’t want their guests worried about contracting … [Read more...]

Las Vegas Boulevard is still quiet and will remain so for now. But a lot is happening in preparation for a slow-rolling reopening at the appropriate time. That runs contrary to the damaging and nonsensical blather of Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and the Astroturf reopening protests that have been taking place on the Strip and throughout the country. Goodman has been shouting about throwing … [Read more...]

Slot machines around the country are silenced. But slot players are still in the game - albeit trying now to win non-cash awards, rather than life-changing jackpots. With nearly 1,000 casinos closed throughout the U.S., social gaming has filled the void. Research firm Eilers & Krejcik Gaming noted this month that social gaming revenues were roughly $5.7 billion in the last 12 months. In … [Read more...]

A reporter from MSNBC covering the shutdown of the Las Vegas Strip because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic asked me this week about smoking inside casinos once they reopen. Nevada gaming operators have maintained a longstanding opposition to any casino smoking prohibition despite efforts by anti-smoking organizations and health activists, and notwithstanding casino smoking bans in nearly … [Read more...]

These are strange and challenging days for the gaming industry, and not merely because its high-rises, marquees and casinos are dark in the midst of a deadly worldwide coronavirus pandemic. It’s been a little over a month. An unprecedented shutdown has put many thousands out of work and sent stocks plummeting. Some are being kept on salary, but many are not. The heartache at home is … [Read more...]

Willie Davis was a giant, both on the football field and in the board room. Davis, who died last week at age 85 of kidney failure, had a well-documented Hall of Fame football career as a defensive lineman with the Green Bay Packers during the era of Vince Lombardi, winning five NFL titles and the first two Super Bowls with the team. His business career following his NFL retirement was equally … [Read more...]

This week was the week that Las Vegas was going to be the center of the football universe. But now, the legions of boisterous NFL fans that would have otherwise wandered the Strip wearing the caps and jerseys of their favorite teams have been replaced by silence. The three-day 2020 NFL Draft was expected to bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Las Vegas starting this Thursday. But when … [Read more...]

Let me begin, Governor Sisolak, by applauding your past decisions about the COVID-19 pandemic. Though your orders seriously affected almost every business in Nevada, including CDC Gaming Reports, they also saved lives, sharply slowing the spread of the disease and preventing what could have been a severe strain on our state’s healthcare system. Based on the New York Times Coronavirus in the … [Read more...]

The upstart XFL this week became the first professional sports league to fall victim to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. But unlike the NBA, NHL and major league baseball, which suspended play, the XFL filed for bankruptcy and has no plans to attempt a return in 2021. For the sports betting community, the loss of the XFL was a blip on the parlay card compared to the cancellation of the NCAA’s … [Read more...]

The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis is far from over. People in every walk of life are trying to adjust to living small and staying away from other people as much as possible. In their isolation, people are inventing fascinating ways to entertain themselves and their friends.  But underneath the creativity and humor is anxiety.  Regardless of what you do for a living, your employment, your income has … [Read more...]

The head of the nation’s largest service employees union on Thursday blasted MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment for not “stepping up” and doing more to help thousands of the companies’ hotel-casino workers put off the job during the novel coronavirus pandemic. “In every community, the casino industry has come to, they have always proclaimed a few things,” said D. Taylor, … [Read more...]

It was a mid-March afternoon – Friday the 13th, as fate would have it – when gaming regulators closed Illinois’ 10 riverboat casinos, making it the first state to order a shutdown due to the spreading COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Illinois soon wouldn’t be alone. The next 48 hours developed into a vortex as more than a dozen states followed Illinois’ lead. I exchanged text messages throughout … [Read more...]

You would have liked Dr. Joseph Fink. I suppose just about everyone did. The good doctor, locally famous as the house physician at Caesars Palace, died in December 2011 after nearly 50 years as a Las Vegas resident. Fink was smart and funny, and did he ever make “house calls.” The fact he made those calls at what was then the grandest hotel-casino this side of Monte Carlo only made his duty … [Read more...]

Even if the gaming industry were to receive the all-clear tomorrow to reopen casinos and resorts closed by the coronavirus pandemic, there wouldn’t be throngs of customers waiting at the entrances. The cloud of COVID-19 will be hovering above the surface. It may remain that way well into the summer months. While professional sports leagues are debating restarting their suspended seasons … [Read more...]

The expansion of regulated sports betting in the U.S. over the past two years was considered a knife through the heart of the multi-billion-dollar illegal sports betting market. But the closure of the nation’s casino industry in an effort to slow the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has given the illegal offshore betting markets new life. Closed casinos also led to silenced retail … [Read more...]

Bob Baffert knows all about high stakes. And the stakes couldn’t be higher in his beloved thoroughbred racing industry these days. The trainer famous for his Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and Justify and a long list of other major victories are easy to find on race day. He’s the man with the shock of white hair standing in the winner’s circle. Now he’s standing up for federal reform … [Read more...]

Historians don’t like to use the word unprecedented. “We try to avoid it,” said Michael Green, a history professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who has authored several books on the gaming capital, including 2005's Las Vegas: A Centennial History. However, Green has found himself forced to use the usually verboten term in the past few weeks. The shutdown of the Las Vegas Strip … [Read more...]

Tilman Fertitta has turned himself into a brand as the uber-successful Texas billionaire. His ownership of five Golden Nugget casinos, the NBA’s Houston Rockets; countless restaurant chains, and Kemah Boardwalk, led to his CNBC reality television series as the “Billionaire Buyer,” where he advises small businesses. He is plain-speaking, blunt, and you always know where he stands. That is, … [Read more...]

The online gambling industry has developed around the world and provided customers an enjoyable form of entertainment.  As with almost any activity, so long as the product is used in appropriate moderation, it causes no harm and provides the benefits of any number of forms of leisure activities.  In normal operations, operators should be keeping a watch for players playing for excessive amounts of … [Read more...]

If ever there was a wrong way to promote a hotel stay in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, offering a luxury quarantine package including a $500 coronavirus test provides the definition. As first reported by Bloomberg, USA Today and The Washington Post, Le Bijou Hotel & Resort in Zurich, Switzerland is advertising “quarantine apartments” on its COVID-19 service page. The 14-day package … [Read more...]

Once the coronavirus pandemic has subsided and the gaming industry begins what portends to be a slow recovery, we may finally start to hear serious discussions surrounding legalized online wagering. According to the American Gaming Association, 973 casinos – commercial and tribal – are closed in some 40 states and are expected to stay that way well into April. Two states with legal online … [Read more...]

At the 2005 Global Gaming Expo, just weeks after Hurricane Katrina wiped out the Mississippi Gulf Coast casino market, the-American Gaming Association CEO Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., described the devastation as “the worst disaster to ever hit our industry.” I went back to the Las Vegas Review-Journal newsroom and told my editor we needed to see the destruction for ourselves. Photographer John Locher … [Read more...]

Call it a coincidence if you’d like, but the timing of articles from major news outlets pointing out the fact Las Vegas Sands’ sparkling Strip casinos The Venetian and Palazzo were still open after other gaming giants had already shut their doors turned out to be as prescient as they were politically prickly. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News joined CDC Gaming Reports in reporting the … [Read more...]

"One in an occasional series profiling a member of Nevada’s List of Excluded Persons, often referred to as "The Black Book." Las Vegas has been known for more than a generation as “The Ninth Island” to Hawaiians who love to vacation there. Islanders like to party and play in every casino, but they have a special attachment to the California Hotel downtown in a tradition that began in the … [Read more...]

Analysts have all but given up trying to explain the past week’s gaming stock declines, which seem largely reflective of investor concern over possible repercussions from the Covid-19 coronavirus on the economy. How else do you rationalize International Game Technology, one of the industry’s three largest slot machine companies, with a market capitalization of $1.5 billion, watching its stock … [Read more...]

My career as a standup comic was mercifully brief. It consisted of participating in a celebrity roast in 2012 at the South Point Hotel and Casino showroom of legendary Las Vegas comedian Cork Proctor on the occasion of his 80th birthday and the publication of his hilarious memoir, My Mind is an Open Mouth. That’s right. I actually opened for Cork Proctor; the man affectionately dubbed “The Oral … [Read more...]

Everi Holdings CEO Mike Rumbolz said the company had not experienced “any discernable impact to date” from worldwide concerns surrounding COVID-19, the name now given to coronavirus. International Game Technology CEO Marco Sala, whose corporate headquarters are in Rome, a country that has seen more than 2,000 confirmed cases of the viral outbreak, couldn’t make the same claim. During … [Read more...]

Minutes after I posted news of the $9 million donation to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas by California’s San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, a gaming insider texted me about the significance of the financial gift. “Classy move. Further unites the commercial and tribal sectors.” UNLV is interspersed with buildings and facilities connected to gaming industry donations. The positive … [Read more...]

There has been a great deal of change in the news lately for the gaming world. After more than a decade as head of MGM Resorts, Jim Murren is stepping down. The Chinese coronavirus outbreak has sent Macau gaming revenues into a tailspin. On a happier note, a big brand name is returning to a Las Vegas casino, with the announcement that Hilton will be operating three hotels as part of the Genting … [Read more...]

In Missouri, gaming authorities estimate some 14,000 unregulated gambling machines are currently operating in the state - despite the simultaneous presence of some 19,000 regulated slot machines inside the Show-Me State's 13 licensed riverboat casinos. Missouri is not an outlier. In Pennsylvania, lawmakers were told roughly 40,000 unregulated slot machine-like games cost the state $95 … [Read more...]

Pull up a chair and take a seat. There’s someone I want you to meet. His name is Gary Platt. He retired nine years ago at age 85 after working more than half a century in the casino business. By anyone’s measure, the 94-year-old has earned the right to relax. Platt began his career selling stacking chairs to California card clubs for L&B Manufacturing and T.R. King at a time the gambling … [Read more...]

Red Rock Resorts will survive the massive cash drain the Palms Casino-Resort’s $690 million renovation had on the Las Vegas-based company’s bottom line. Still, the almost $34 million in one-time charges and payments the company was forced to make over the last few months of last year to shut down the debacle surrounding the appropriately named KAOS nightclub was a bitter pill for investors to … [Read more...]

As I wait at London Heathrow Airport for my flight back home to Las Vegas (via Seattle) it’s time for my day-after major trade show tradition: what I liked, loved and disliked about the conference I just attended. There was a lot to love at this year’s ICE London 2020, especially ICE VOX the seminar program. Several other factors made the last week a very enjoyable experience. Love ICE … [Read more...]

Legislatures in 14 states are considering proposals to legalize sports betting this year. That’s not surprising; fourteen other states currently offer regulated sports betting, and six more states, along with Washington D.C., have approved sports betting laws and are expected to launch sometime in 2020. More than $17 billion has been legally wagered on sports in the U.S. during the 20 months … [Read more...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Longtime locals can remember when the National Football League shunned Las Vegas at every turn. These days the league’s crush on the city borders on obsession. The celebrated list of connections between the league and Las Vegas continues to grow. In addition to the 2020 kickoff of the Las Vegas Raiders at a sparkling new, $2 billion stadium and the … [Read more...]

SAN DIEGO – Naima Stevenson Starks offered up a slight smile when I asked her if the NCAA was no longer concerned about the nationwide expansion of legal sports betting. Of course the college sports governing organization, which spent years fighting an ultimately losing battle against New Jersey’s efforts to overturn the Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act, wishes the activity would go … [Read more...]

Before the year is out, it’s possible MGM Resorts International won’t own any of the casinos the company operates in the U.S. Following 12 months of intense internal discussion and activity, culminating with Tuesday’s sale/leaseback of MGM Grand Las Vegas to a new real estate investment trust joint venture, MGM’s ownership portfolio includes MGM Springfield in Massachusetts, a 50% stake in the … [Read more...]

No matter how hard I try, I keep underestimating the ever-expanding universe of legalized sports betting in America. I need the ghost of Carl Sagan as my bookmaker just to discuss the “billions and billions” of dollars expected to be in play in the coming years as one jurisdiction after the next opens sports books. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s repeal of the 2018 repeal of the Professional and … [Read more...]

Analysts have long credited mobile wagering with fueling Nevada’s sports betting market. Since 2010, the Silver State’s sportsbooks have seen an 81.5% increase in handle. The source for that analysis has, to this point, been largely anecdotal. Nevada gaming regulators have never tabulated how much sports bettors have wagered through a smartphone or a tablet PC, as compared to the money laid … [Read more...]

In March, DraftKings CEO Jason Robins and William Hill US CEO Joe Asher engaged in a minor quarrel during the final panel of the American Gaming Association’s Sports Betting Executive Summit. The verbal exchange was somewhat entertaining. By the time Robins and Asher see each other at the AGA’s next summit, their companies will be battling for dominance over the growing U.S. sports betting … [Read more...]

The war of words between Oklahoma’s Indian casino community and the state’s governor has caught the cursory interest of gaming equipment manufacturers. The companies, at least right now, believe the battle is just talk. They can’t imagine any disruption in the nation’s No. 2 Indian gaming state, which produces roughly 8% of total tribal casino revenue in the U.S. Oklahoma Governor Kevin … [Read more...]

Derek Stevens owned a small percentage in the Rat Pack-era Riviera Hotel-Casino when I first became acquainted with him more than a decade ago. He was considered an “activist investor” at the time, a businessman out of Michigan who was sharply critical of the aging Riviera's management and direction. The property was then squarely in the midst of a financial nightmare. The Riviera, which has … [Read more...]

The late comedian Robin Williams had a hilarious routine about trying to avoid Starbucks, except that he couldn't, because there always seemed to be one on every street corner. Often times, two on every block. “Oh my God, there’s another!” Williams would scream. Lately, we’re starting to feel the same way about sportsbook operator William Hill US. The Las Vegas-based company, a … [Read more...]

Literally two minutes after MGM Resorts International announced Monday that it had closed the $4.25 billion sale and leaseback of the Bellagio, the company sent out a second press release stating it would redeem more than $1.878 billion in debt that is due over the next two years. A portion of the proceeds from the Bellagio deal went right to a reduction of the $15.1 billion in long-term debt … [Read more...]

The non-descript Culinary Workers Local 226 complex tucked into the aging “Naked City” area of downtown Las Vegas is front and center for Democratic presidential candidates to lay bare their platforms. It’s become a right-of-passage every four years for candidates to hold a town hall event inside the second-floor meeting hall. The local represents more than 60,000 non-gaming workers in casinos … [Read more...]

Illinois caught the gaming industry’s attention in June when state lawmakers and the governor approved the nation’s largest gambling expansion to an existing market in more than a decade. The development also caught the interest of private equity giant TPG Capital. Through TPG Pace, the firm’s publicly traded acquisition company, the investment fund entered into a transaction agreement … [Read more...]

Credit MGM Resorts International for doing not only the smart thing, but also the right thing with its recent agreement to settle the potentially devastating litigation in the aftermath of the October 1 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. By now, the grim statistics have been burned into many memories: More than 1,000 bullets fired from nearly two-dozen assault-style weapons with bump … [Read more...]

STATELINE, Nevada – Purchasing the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe three years ago was both a professional and personal decision for Paragon Gaming Chairwoman Diana Bennett. Professional, because it gave the Las Vegas-based casino management company a foothold in the South Lake Tahoe casino market. After a prolonged gaming revenue decline for more than a decade, due to competition from … [Read more...]

The Nevada Taxicab Commission last week embarked on a bold set of changes in the McCarran International Airport-to-the-Las Vegas Strip ride fare structure. Setting fares in the tourist corridor makes sense at a time cab companies are losing riders to Uber and Lyft. While not an answer to every challenge facing the business, the new structure sounds like a good idea that’s pro-active and is sure … [Read more...]

RENO – The Grand Sierra Resort and Nugget casinos offer a pair of case studies to the gaming industry on how new and dedicated ownership has given two time-tested Northern Nevada properties fresh beginnings. Consider the Grand Sierra. Southern California businessman Alex Meruelo, through his Meruelo Group, bought the property in 2011 for a reported $42 million. Today, after an investment … [Read more...]

Now that Caesars Entertainment has finally unloaded the Rio after more than 10 years on the sales block, the attention turns toward Circus Circus, MGM Resorts International’s slightly awkward, unloved stepchild. According to press reports, a suitor for the aging family-themed Strip hotel-casino has been found – billionaire businessman Phil Ruffin, who owns the TI and has a history with MGM … [Read more...]

Recently, the Press of Atlantic City published an interview with Tilman Fertitta, owner of the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City discussing his views on the Atlantic City casino market.  In the interview Fertitta said Atlantic City was a seven-casino, not a nine-casino market.  The comment was in reference to the addition of Hard Rock and Ocean Resort to the Boardwalk City in June 2018, raising the … [Read more...]

Monday’s report that MGM Resorts International was considering a sale and leaseback of the Bellagio and MGM Grand Las Vegas to real estate conglomerate Blackstone Group was a little like the movie “Groundhog Day.” We keep waking up to the same news over and over again. At least this time, Bloomberg News attached a name to the speculated transaction. Blackstone’s proposed acquisition of … [Read more...]

Caesars Entertainment promoted its expanded nationwide reach in sports betting Tuesday. The Las Vegas-based company now has sports books in 29 casinos in nine states, including New York, where it has a branding and marketing alliance at properties owned by the Oneida Indian Nation. The landscape could look much different next year if Caesars’ sportsbooks become William Hill U.S. branded … [Read more...]

I’m waiting for the first casino to offer NFL Hall of Famer and Green Bay Packers great Paul Hornung the chance to place the location’s first legal sports wager. Over the next week and a half, every new sportsbook in Iowa, Indiana and New York seems to have scheduled a retired NFL great to kick off the betting action. “The Golden Boy,” now 83, the 1956 Heisman Trophy winner and a four-time NFL … [Read more...]

I have been formulating this column since I received that sad news early last week that gaming writer and colleague Dave Palermo committed suicide. Two days later Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin made the most ill-informed, insensitive statement I have heard from a public official in recent years (and that clears a very high bar): "Every night somewhere in America, somebody takes their life in a … [Read more...]

Long before Dave Palermo earned his place as one of the most knowledgeable gaming journalists in the country, he made his mark in Southern California as a reporter with the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. I learned about his reputation from one of the best – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston. In 1990, when I was covering Nevada’s gaming industry for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, … [Read more...]

Imagine going into a restaurant and finding just three items on the menu. Or how about browsing a bookstore that offers just three titles, or visiting a large mall with just three brands? Like a lot of things, the value of entertainment is based on choice. Just ask executives at Twin River Holdings, which operates Rhode Island’s two casinos. Under a proposed deal between the governor’s … [Read more...]

Reggie Burton is used to telling stories. Other people’s stories. As a longtime gaming industry communications executive, Burton has spent his career handling corporate matters, casino issues, and gaming diversity topics with ease and professionalism. In his boutique public relations firm, Burton represents a mix of clients from a variety of industries, and he communicates their messages, with … [Read more...]

Union Gaming Group’s John DeCree labeled it “the $500 million question.” In the two weeks since Eldorado Resorts and Caesars Entertainment announced their $17.3 billion merger agreement, the investment community is still coming to grips with how the companies will implement $500 million in synergies – i.e., cost savings – in the first 12 months after the transaction closes. DeCree told … [Read more...]

When 250 specially equipped drones lit up the evening sky and spelled out the name SAHARA over the SLS Las Vegas south parking garage last week, one of Strip’s worst-kept secrets was finally confirmed. Rumors are the second largest industry in Las Vegas behind gaming. But dropping SLS in favor of the iconic name that had been attached to location for 59 years was a foregone conclusion after the … [Read more...]

Speculation about what Las Vegas Strip casinos operated by Caesars Entertainment might be for sale was rampant long before the words slipped out of the mouth of Eldorado Resorts CEO Tom Reeg early Monday morning. Reno-based Eldorado is acquiring nine Caesars properties on or near the Strip as part of its $17.3 billion cash, stock and debt merger with Caesars. Eldorado – which has resorts in … [Read more...]

Outside of Colorado and Alberta, Canada, only savvy investors knew much about Century Casinos before Monday. Union Gaming Group analyst John DeCree said the investment community will likely be learning about other small, under-the-radar casino companies in the coming months. The $385 million deal between Eldorado Resorts, Century and real estate investment trust VICI Properties wasn’t just … [Read more...]