Crown Resorts will divest itself of its staying stocks in Melco Resorts and Entertainment, the company that was, until last month, known as Melco Crown. The move completes James Packer’s total withdrawal from Macau.

The news headlines comes nearly exactly one after Packer’s Crown Resorts made the shock decision to cut its stake in the company it had formed jointly with Lawrence Ho’s Melco International from 34.3 percent to 27.4 percent year. This was just five months after the opening of Melco Crown’s long-awaited $4.5 billion Studio City resort.

In hindsight, the timing could scarcely have now been worse. After nearly two years of tumbling profits in Macau, Crown Resorts wanted to rein in its international expansion and reduce its contact with the gambling hub to be able to concentrate on projects closer to home.

Timing is Everything

Packer’s Asian dream had unsuccessful, shattered by Beijing’s anti-corruption drive of 2014. The Melco Crown properties, prepared up in a climate of apparently unassailable success for Macau, then one of this fastest-growing economies in the world, are not providing the comes back he expected.

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At minimum, two Japan gambling enterprises are anticipated to be authorized by the National Diet when the governing human body comes to terms on its resorts that are integrated sometime this autumn.

And whenever casino companies make their pitches to the government to obtain one of the highly looked for licenses, slots are expected to have presence that is strong the gaming flooring, a stark comparison with other gambling venues in Asia.

According to a report published by Global Market Advisors (GMA), a casino and hospitality firm that is consulting in Las Vegas, slot machines will take center stage on Japan’s gaming floors. While other Asian nations with gambling focus on table games to cater towards the baccarat that is highly popular, in Japan, like in the US, slots will take on a bigger role.

‘ The single greatest misconception a casino operator can make is always to assume that Japanese gamers will play the same games as those players that frequent Macau,’ the report, titled ‘White Paper: Japan Integrated Resorts,’ explained. ‘The Chinese have a table game centric gaming culture and possess long embraced baccarat and bro that is sic. The Japanese … have a long-established history a Continue reading Japan Casinos Expected to Embrace Slot Machines, But Pachinko a No-Go →