All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Gaming & Casinos

The private equity buyout of Harrahs has been approved by the most important regulator.  Other state and tribal approvals will come quickly.  This also makes it easier for buyouts of smaller casino companies in the future.

Stations has now completed their known desire to circle the las vegas valley

It's nice to be optimistic. But Congress won't pass, and Pres. Bush won't sign, any bill legalizing Internet gambling during an election year. There are also issues involving online security and states' rights that will take time to resolve. Meanwhile operators, including the biggest, are looking at...

The union organizing at Caesars Palace can't be a good sign for management. It can be only a sign of discontent with employees that are the face of the property - the dealers. There should have never been a need for dealers at the Wynn or CP to want to unionize. It can only put an added burden on the...

Of course there are similarities, but the differences may be of greater importance.  Growth in Macau will continue to be as spectacular, for a few years, as it was in Las Vegas in the 1990s, until it, too, will be oversupplied.  But California could never require its citizens...

Having just recently purchase an additional 45 acres will just add more fuel to Stations fire. They seem to have so much going on, one would wonder if they can keep their efforts properly directed. It seem that the new partnership of the Fertitta brothers (Stations Casinos) and Colony Capital...

Can Planet Hollywood just rely on two towers of Time Share and condo sales to bolster their bottom line. The investment will be substantial and the results must make this move justifiable. The introduction of time share into their portfolio should certainly make a large difference in cash flow...

The fact that the Cotai strip was once barren and lacking in any real future can't be an issue. If push comes to shove, the Las Vegas Strip at one time had less of a chance to be what is is today than Macau. The facts are, and the comparisons should be, made to look at numbers. Where will each be ten...

John is correct in his brief analysis

Electronic poker has been around for years and the new automated poker games will be an accent to poker rooms around the country.  Much like other electronic/automated table games they will have a place in the industry but they will not in the near future replace the human interaction of "live"...