Hello Atlantic City Chippers,

The first meeting of the Atlantic City Casino Collectibles Club, since the Covid-Pandemic, will be held on April 16th, 2023. The meeting will be held at the Cove Restaurant Bar and Grill. The address is 3700 Brigantine Blvd, Brigantine, New Jersey 08203. It's 1.1 miles from Harrah's Hotel and Casinos' front door. The room will open at 10:30am, I'm trying for 10:00am. They have plenty of safe free parking. They also have a great bar menu.

Atlantic City Facts and Rumors
• AC Casinos won more than $2.78 Billion off of gamblers at the nine resorts in 2022. That's a 9% increase from 2021.
• $763 Million coming just from AC's Sportsbooks.
• Atlantic City's Hard Rock Casino hired a new management team as the property positions itself for an even greater share of the Atlantic City market.
• The vacant Atlantic Club Casino and Hotel will be renovated into luxury condominiums per owner Colony Capital.
• Atlantic City's "Jokes Comedy Club", opened at Resorts Casino.
• Atlantic City casino workers Union, (Unite Here Local 54), pushes against proposed indoor smoking ban.
• Showboat AC announces $50 million hotel renovations project.
• BetMGM awards more than $100 million in 2022 jackpots.
• New Jersey online casinos and its land-based partners earned $1.66 Billion in 2022.
• Order of Sharing the Pie for 2022: Borgata - $724.4, Hard Rock - $429.3, Ocean - $356.8, Harrah's - $257.8, Tropicana - $248.8, Caesars - $235.3, Resorts - $167.3, Bally's - $153.9, and Golden Nugget - $148.8.

Las Vegas and World Facts and Rumors
• Downtown Las Vegas's Wild Fire Casino & Hotel is slated to open on February 10th, 2023.
• A class action lawsuit claims that Las Vegas strip resorts colluded to fix room rates.
• Blake Shelton breaks ground on a new Las Vegas "Honky-Tonk" on the strip.
• Las Vegas Sands proposes a multi-billion-dollar casino/entertainment complex on New York's Nassau Coliseum site.
• Macau's casino revenues fell 51% in 2022.
• Stations Casinos files plans for a new 600-Room resort in Henderson, Nevada.
• Ohio launched its legal "Sports Betting" on January 1, 2023.
• Las Vegas's First Hotel celebrates 117 years of the City's History.
• Chilean Billionaire, Claudio Fischer, backs out of his $120 million strip property deal.
• Shaq opens second "Big Chicken Joint" in Las Vegas.
• Casino Queen Marquette gets approval from Iowa's Regulators to move onto a "land-based operation".
• LV Sands donates millions to Texas Politicians ahead of gambling push.
• Resorts World opens a new casino in Newburgh Mall, Gardnertown, New York.
• Steve Cohen, Owner of the NY Mets, wants to build a casino near Citi-Field.
• Virginia's First "Stand-Alone Casino" opens in Portsmouth VA.
• Big Step Hotel & Casino receives approval from New Hampshire's planning board to build a Concord Casino.
• Charitable Gaming Property proposes a new casino in Lebanon, New Hampshire's Miracle Mile District.
• Las Vegas's Trump Hotel was Ranked 10th Worst Hotel ever built in the World.

Trivia Question[/u/
Combined, how many properties do Caesars and MGM own on the Las Vegas Strip? 1) 8, 2) 11, 3) 15, 4) 17, or 5) 19?

See you on the Boardwalk, Happy Chipping Everybody,

Marc Maahs, President ACCCC, mjmmazman@yahoo.com