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Vol. 8 • No. 4 • February 1, 2010, Featured Articles, PODCASTS
GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Randy Fine, Managing Director, Fine Point Group
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Randy Fine, the managing director of the Fine Point Group, on the company’s spectacularly successful year in 2009 and prospects for even bigger things in 2010.
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Randall Fine is one of the main developers of the Total Rewards program, the Harrah's loyalty card that is the gold standard for loyalty programs in the gaming industry. Since leaving the company, he has developed programs for other casinos that are not only completely different than Total Rewards but at least as successful. And when Fine Point's management group took the Greektown Casino in Detroit, they brought new recognition-and increased market share-to what had been the least successful of the Detroit metro area gaming halls. Now, the company is on the verge of some major developments in 2010. Fine spoke with Global Gaming Business Publisher Roger Gros at G2E in Las Vegas in November, prior to the lapsing of the company's contract to run Greektown.
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WEEKLY FEATURE: President Impeached
The 60-year old St. Louis riverboat President Casino (l.) is likely to play its last hands on or around July 1. The Missouri Gaming Commission followed the recommendations of executive director Gene McNary, who wants to revoke its license for underperforming.
London Bridge to the Future
The historical role of an exposition has been to present its visitors with a glimpse of the future, as viewed through the lens of the latest manufactured products and prototypes. From that standpoint, IGE 2010 managed to fulfill its promise. (Novomatic once again had the largest stand at IGE at left.)
Vegas in Miami?
Sheldon Adelson, who's about to open his fourth casino in Singapore, says South Florida could be his next “destination resort.” The Las Vegas Sands CEO says one mega-resort in Miami or Fort Lauderdale could make more money for the state than seven Seminole casinos.
Delaware Approves Table Games
House has signed off on bill to bring poker, blackjack and more to the state's three racinos; now developers are proposing full-scale casino in Wilmington.
WMS Plans Online Launch in U.K.
Another veteran, land-based casino supplier is venturing into the unknown wilds of online gaming. Slot machine and systems manufacturer WMS apparently wants to make internet gaming part of its own future, according to CEO Brian Gamache (l.).
Resorts World Hotels Boost Sentosa Traffic
Even though the casino at Resorts World Sentosa isn’t yet open, traffic to the leisure island is up 10 percent since four of the property’s hotels opened two weeks ago.
Greektown Shakeup
The bankruptcy process for Detroit’s Greektown Casino Hotel should come to an end in June due to a new board, schedule and operator installed by the court last week.
FANTINI’S FINANCE: Slot Sweepstakes
With the long-awaited replacement cycle supposedly about to kick in, technology upgrades long overdue and many new jurisdictions coming online, the future of the slot manufacturing industry rarely has looked brighter.
Chippewas Lose Canadian Casino Profits
The Ontario Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Chippewas of Rama First Nation will no longer receive 35 percent of the profits from Casino Rama (l.).