Tag Archives: VIP gaming
US – Bally’s Atlantic City announces a high limits room
After recently announcing over $100m of planned renovations, Bally’s Atlantic City announces its plans for a High Limits Room and a new Asian Pacific restaurant. Bally’s is creating a new High Limits Room providing an elevated experience for its guests. This new space is one of the latest additions at Bally’s Atlantic City and will…
US – Saratoga Casino to invest $8m on sports bar and VIP gaming
New York casino Saratoga Casino Hotel has announced plans for a major capital improvement project investing $8m in upgrades to the casino, including an all-new sports bar on the gaming floor, a new VIP lounge, upgraded high-limit slot area, self-service beverage stations, as well as new carpet, finishes, lighting fixtures, upgraded sound system, and 50…
Cambodia – Amax to operate VIP room at Poipet casino
Amax International will operate a VIP room at Genting Crown Casino in Poipet having signed a three year deal with Cambodia’s Crown Resorts, which isn’t affiliated to either Genting or Crown Resorts. The junket group will operate 13 VIP tables for which it will pay Crown Resorts Co a monthly fee of RMB500,000 (US$75,650) for…
Australia – Crown’s VIP revenue falls by 49 per cent following Chinese demise
Having stopped marketing to Chinese high-rollers, Australian casino group Crown Resorts saw its VIP turnover fall by 49 per cent. In a disastrous year, which saw 19 members of staff arrested last October in China for illegal marketing to potential players, Crown has pulled out of planned projects in Las Vegas and exited its JVP…
UK – Ritz wins VIP Room of the Year again
The Ritz Club in London has won the award of VIP Room of the Year at the International Gaming Awards for the third time. Lesley Samuels, General Manager of Gaming and Nick Ostler, Customer Relations Manager of The Ritz Club had the honour of accepting the prestigious gaming award for Casino VIP Room of the…
Canada – Century opens High Limit room in Alberta
Century Casinos has opened its newly renovated High Limit and Shuffles gaming rooms at the Century Casino & Hotel Edmonton, which is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. These premium gaming rooms are part of a $2m renovation project scheduled to conclude at the end of Q3, 2016. A new poker room has already opened in…
Australia – ‘Freakish’ baccarat run wipes $80m of The Star’s profits
Despite a ‘freakish’ run of luck by six Asian VIP players, Australian operator Star Entertainment has just delivered a 26 per cent increase in its first-half normalised net profit to A$142m due to strong domestic growth. The Star revealed that an six high-rollers, betting big on baccarat, brought chaos to the group’s performance, stripping away almost $80m in profit…
China – Wynn rocked by inside junket job
Hong Kong-based investment bank Daiwa Capital Markets has informed that up to $US258m has been stolen from a VIP room operator in inside Wynn Macau. Wynn Macau’s shares fell by nine per cent on the news casino. Daiwa said: “Staff at Dore Holdings, a VIP room operator in Macau, have allegedly fled with between HKD200m…
Bahamas – Atlantis Paradise to add VIP gaming rooms
The Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas has launched a two year renovation programme to upgrade several areas of the resort including adding a new high-limit casino to its gaming mix. Owners Brookfield Asset Management, who took over the property last year, has partnered with architect interior and designer, Jeffrey Beers, for the new upgrades….
