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Vol. 9 • No. 39 • October 3, 2011, Featured Articles, GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCASTS
GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Joel Bergman, Chairman and Founder, Bergman Walls Architects
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Joel Bergman, the chairman and founder of Bergman Walls Architects, and a participant in many of the grandest casino designs in Las Vegas and beyond.
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There are a few architects who have shaped the image of the modern casino and Joel Bergman, the founder of Bergman Walls & Associates, is one of them. Bergman worked with the legendary Martin Stern in the early days of Las Vegas and later took a job with Steve Wynn, designing many of his most iconic buildings. Starting his own firm in 1994, Bergman’s designs were used to develop major casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, on riverboats and in Indian Country. Now, BWA has emerged as a major design force in Asia. Like all design firms, BWA is just emerging from a difficult period with new and exciting ideas on how to take the gaming industry to a new level. Also joining Bergman at points during the discussion is BWA Vice President Brad Schulz. Bergman spoke to Global Gaming Business Publisher Roger Gros at his offices in Las Vegas in September.
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WEEKLY FEATURE: Okada Sets Sights on Manila
The Philippines is in for renewed attention now that Japanese firm Universal Entertainment is moving forward with plans for two casinos and three hotels in Manila. Heavyweight UE head Kazuo Okada, who serves on the Wynn Resorts board, plans to make casinos the main business of the traditional machine manufacturer.
Full Tilt Fallout
After meetings in London last week, the Alderney Gaming Commission revoked the license of Full Tilt Poker. The next day, a shady French businessman made a bid to buy the company. The recent addendum to the April indictment that accuses Full Tilt of conducting a “Ponzi” scheme to defraud its players has rippled across the poker industry and has given U.S. casinos more ammunition to insist that online poker be legalized and regulated.
Massachusetts Senate Heading Towards Vote on Casino Bill
The Massachusetts Senate last week dealt with more than 60 amendments to the gaming expansion bill with more scheduled to be considered next week. A vote on the bill that would allow three casino resorts and one slots parlor could be voted for soon.
Four IRs Recommended for Taiwan
The integrated resort question in Taiwan has taken another step towards realization. The number of properties recommended has doubled from the original two, with an emphasis on IRs having an entertainment element without specifying that element be a theme park.
Monarch Buys Riviera Black Hawk
Monarch Casino and Resort Inc. has bought the Rivera casino in Black Hawk, Colorado. The owners of Reno’s Atlantis Casino Hotel picked up the casino from Riviera Holdings, which recently emerged from bankruptcy.
California Tribes Mull How to React to Supreme Court Ruling
The recent Supreme Court ruling that slapped down California’s attempts to coerce gaming tribes into paying large amounts of gaming profits into the state’s general fund to have ramifications for the state’s tribal gaming compacts negotiated by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (l.).
Round 2 (and 3) in Maryland
Caesars Entertainment gets the Baltimore casino license, while two applicants remain for the license to build a casino at Rocky Gap state park in western Maryland. Lakes Entertainment President Lyle Berman (l.) wants the Rocky Gap license.
Bally Announces Major Contracts
Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut and the NagaWorld Casino in Cambodia have signed contracts to implement system and game solutions by Bally Technologies, and the company signed an enterprise-wide deal with the BC Lottery.
Finis Stanley Ho
Stanley Ho, the founder and dominant figure in Macau gaming for decades, sells his remain stake in the company he started, SJM, to his fourth wife, Angela Leong.
GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Nick Khin, President, Aristocrat Technologies
This week the Global Gaming Business Podcast concludes a series of interviews leading up to last week’s G2E. In this installment, GGB Editor Frank Legato speaks with Aristocrat President Nick Khin, on what his company is going to be exhibiting at the big trade show.