The restaurant definitely did not draw high rollers who tipped well.
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And this is not just an issue for the high rollers.
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High-rollers like Paddock are often given credit lines at casinos.
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Only time will tell if IRS scrutiny scares off the high rollers.
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Though, it hints at another crowd the hotel caters to: high rollers.
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High rollers can even itemize the cost of gambling trips, including entertainment.
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Monthly dump is being for high rollers, hackers, security companies, OEMs, and governments.
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High rollers at the Grosvenor chain had also splashed out less than expected.
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" Source: SmartAsset "High rollers may be pleased to see Nevada crack our top 10.
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In big casinos, high rollers have been known to negotiate rules with the house.
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Many high rollers hop from isle to isle on the comfort of their boats.
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Both are known for swanky resorts, popular with high rollers; and both court Chinese VIPs.
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Not high rollers, just middle class folk with a libertarian bend and from diverse backgrounds.
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Millennials, especially those who are just entering the workforce, aren't high rollers — they're value hunters.
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But there still seem to be some high rollers out there who want their ivory.
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As in other black enclaves of segregated communities, laborers lived next to professionals and high rollers.
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Hosting a marquee fight yields another revenue stream, from the high rollers who come to town.
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The guys looked like two high rollers in Vegas who picked up a couple of kids.
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It's your chance to get the kind of personal attention they usually reserve for high rollers.
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Real high rollers can buy their own embroidered Burger King robes for an extra €60 each.
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ATM withdrawals are not a major source of cash for most Chinese gamblers, especially its high rollers.
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We had learned over the years what the mere mention of "high rollers" in your station meant.
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He didn't have to sit in with the high-rollers, as long as he played enough hands.
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Junkets are middlemen who bring high rollers to play, extending them credit and collecting on their debts.
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Mr McClendon, 56, was one of the high-rollers of the shale boom—and of its bust.
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She worked as a hostess for high rollers at Club Paradise at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa.
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After moving to the United States, Trebek debuted as the host of the game show "High Rollers" ...
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Cattle farmers, chefs, and steakhouse high rollers believe the taste to be unparalleled, but, is it worth it?
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How will these crews of high rollers divvy up the work necessary to build a city on Mars?
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Junket operators are middlemen who bring high rollers to play, extending them credit and collecting on their debts.
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Now he was back in the big room, at the high rollers' table, betting the farm on love.
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Venture capitalists might seem like high rollers, but they're not the biggest fish when it comes to investing.
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Industry insiders say that in recent years, operators have focused on high rollers as their customer base shrunk.
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He's probably worth hundreds of millions, but he's one of those could-be high rollers who fly coach.
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Trump casinos reported paying about $300,000 a year in "pilot costs" to transport high rollers in Mr. Trump's jet.
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Its famous Monte Carlo district is home to world-famous casinos where high-rollers and VIPs go to gamble.
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Its famed Monte Carlo district is known for being the gambling spot of choice for the world's high rollers.
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That's what happened to an exclusive house game involving celebrities and high-rollers, which eventually led to a federal indictment.
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ATM withdrawals are not a major source of cash for most Chinese gamblers, especially VIP players known as high rollers.
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Macau's gaming revenues have more than halved since then, as high rollers from the mainland gave it a wide berth.
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In Europe, Qatari royals have a reputation as high rollers with a yen for ostentatious real-estate and aristocratic prestige.
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Asian high-rollers from markets such as China have historically been a lucrative customer for the major casino operators in Vegas.
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Trading volumes at Crown resorts have slumped in the fall-out of the arrests, as profits generated from high rollers plummeted.
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As its makers at Lotus Belle describe, the tent is the perfect place for high rollers to party at music festivals.
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In 1994, he was arrested for working as a cash courier in a drug network overseen by some Detroit high-rollers.
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Part of the excitement of Seiobo is that everybody, from high rollers to far-flung restaurant critics, gets a little messy.
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The collection of over 1,800 spacious accommodations at 10 properties is normally reserved for high rollers and celebrities (rooms from $300).
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It had opened in 1984, and was a den of golden glitz that attracted high rollers from all corners of the globe.
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The target customers are well-heeled Japanese and foreign high-rollers, says Susumu Hamamura, a politician from Komeito, Mr Abe's coalition partner.
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Having bet heavily on Chinese high-rollers, it was badly hit by Beijing's corruption crackdown, which targeted officials gambling embezzled money offshore.
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VIP players led the way in the world's largest gambling mecca, with new resort casinos helping to draw in the high rollers.
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Sure, I was expecting to laugh at some creepy dudes while taking advantage of high rollers who thought my photo was cute.
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She's already not taking money from high rollers or speaking at big fundraisers, so her bench of wealthy supporters is already thin.
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Donald J. Trump, nominally the evening's host, held court ringside, posing beside his first wife, Ivana, and glad-handing the high-rollers.
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In July a state-backed report denounced Suncity, Macau's biggest operator of gambling tours, whose clients include high-rollers from the mainland.
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Macau's gross gaming revenue tumbled by a third, or some $15 billion, in 2015 as high rollers shied away from conspicuous consumption.
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When celebrities and high rollers like Isiah Thomas wanted to make a big bet, their bookies called Dink to lay off the action.
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Crown then faced a new challenge, with a downturn in Chinese consumer spending crimping revenue from Chinese high-rollers at its Australian tables.
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The high rollers have to bring in the masses, move product, and make a ton of money without particularly taking care of anyone.
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A Chinese casino owner in the Philippines told that Senate inquiry he took millions of dollars from two Chinese high-rollers in February.
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If Johnson becomes prime minister in the fall, he will be an unelected leader, just like all those "unaccountable" high rollers in Brussels.
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Tasked with bringing in VIPs to play in the glitzy casinos, these middlemen provide credit for high rollers and collect on their debts.
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The Philippine gaming sector's growth was fueled by the mass market and Chinese high rollers enticed by warmer ties between Beijing and Manila.
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" Playlist: "Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin Ain't Easy)" / "High Rollers" / "Squeeze The Trigger" / "Peel Their Caps Back" / "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" / "O.
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Taking on more bets could help balance out big payouts to high rollers, who also tend to be early adopters of betting platforms.
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If this sell-off of the high rollers continues, that stock will get hit and that'll be a better chance to buy it.
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Some Facebook employees internally referred to these children as "whales," a term typically used by casinos to describe the highest of high rollers.
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Over the years, Macau has become a hotspot for China's high rollers: Its gaming revenues are five times higher than those of Las Vegas.
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One evening in 24, I was working one of the craps pits when I was summoned to wait on a table of high rollers.
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"These will be coupled with a niche clientele, often high-rollers, thereby resulting in comparatively large average wager amongst these early adopters," Foye said.
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In February, Crown reported a 35 percent slump in first-half profit due to a drop in Chinese high-rollers at its Macau casinos.
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Due to a travel ban imposed by the Saudi government, Gulf Arabs and other high rollers become themselves increasingly scarce on the party scene.
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At the heart of Monaco's gambling district, Monte Carlo, is the world-famous Monte Carlo casino, where high-rollers and VIPs go to gamble.
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He shares hustler's observations and pimp game with "High Rollers" and "Somebody Gotta Do It," songs filled with intuitive and free-associative street poetry.
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The shrieking gamblers, the bachelorettes with oversized cocktails, the high-rollers spruced up for an expensive evening out, all were nowhere to be seen.
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Quadir and his rivals are supposedly the toughest high rollers in the game, but their virility is primarily conveyed through their conspicuously manicured beards.
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The lucky high rollers who are invited to The Venetian can take advantage of in-room theaters, private bars and 24-hour butler service.
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America is one of the few rich countries that tax winnings from betting, which might encourage high-rollers to stick to the black market.
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Optimists may harbour hopes for a revival: high rollers are unpredictable, and before the downturn Crown's shares traded close to the offer price of $14.75.
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The reports also said Crown knowingly allowed gamblers to launder money at its casinos and pressured immigration officials to fast-track visas for high rollers.
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"During the years, I very successfully ran the casino business, I knew many high rollers," he wrote in an email to Yahoo earlier this year.
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On top of that, you've got a labyrinth of costs, such as promotional services to get celebrities, big names, and high rollers into the club.
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But a night out isn't complete without a visit to Casino St. Moritz in the Kempinski Grand Hotel, the place to be for high-rollers.
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Shares of Wynn Resorts dove 15 percent Thursday after the CEO said casino operator is seeing a "slowdown" at its Macau location, especially from high rollers.
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For junket operators who facilitate high-rollers by extending credit and collecting debts, the landscape has shifted with many shut out due partly to rising competition.
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Among its 80,000 attendees, Silicon Valley elites and high-rollers are known to pay thousands of dollars for chef-prepared food, pricey campers, and luxury accommodations.
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Giving credit where credit is due, this desert city successfully attracts everyone from young families and celebrities to MICE travelers and the highest of high rollers.
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More than 400 private jets, twice the usual number for a weekend, were reported to have clogged up local airports depositing their cargo of high rollers.
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Crown reported an 11% fall in its half-year profit as Chinese high-rollers scaled back spending amid a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
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High-rollers are mustering up the courage to return to Macau casinos, while the mass market gaming segment continues to show momentum, a gaming expert told CNBC.
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To offset the tightened liquidity with Macau's junkets, the Las Vegas-based company has been doing more direct lending to Chinese high rollers in the VIP market.
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No charges were laid against them, but the detentions also hurt SkyCity's ability to attract Asian high-rollers who had been behind the casino's recent strong performance.
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No charges were laid against them, but the detentions also hurt SkyCity's ability to attract Asian high-rollers, who had been behind the casino's recent strong performance.
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Not to take an elderly woman's home to build a parking lot so that high-rollers can come from New York City to build casinos in Atlantic City.
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Shares in the company have already lost more than 7 percent of their value so far this year on concerns about SkyCity's ability to lure Chinese high-rollers.
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While ordinary attendees chomp down on hot dogs and sodas, Hard Rock Stadium's Centerplate Executive Chef Dayanny De la Cruz has something special planned for the high rollers.
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Decades of serving international high-rollers have left Whistler with no shortage of high-end steakhouses, bistros and wine bars — not to mention a surfeit of culinary talent.
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As the country imposed restrictions on anyone arriving from mainland China, the casino saw turnover from high rollers, who are largely Chinese, plummet by more than a third.
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High rollers can gain access into D.F.S.'s inner circle, in which they get to be on first-name, texting basis with executives and employees at DraftKings and FanDuel.
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But the Senate was told in a previous session that the money was brought into the Philippines by two Chinese high-rollers, one from Macau and one from Beijing.
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The proxy business in the Philippines is mainly facilitated by Macau junket operators who bring high rollers into the casinos' opulent VIP parlors, either in person or via proxies.
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He also said he is willing to return almost $85033 million given to him as debt repayment by the two Chinese high rollers who allegedly transferred the stolen money.
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"This incident will make it even harder for the operators to entice the high-rollers to visit," said Shaun McCamley, a partner at Global Market Advisors based in Bangkok.
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The celebrities are there to make the high rollers who attend the tournament feel as if they are in the middle of the huddle, locker room or board room.
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Wynn generated nearly three-quarters of its revenue this year from its casinos in Macau, a special administrative region of China and a gambling haven for Chinese high rollers.
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Sources say one of the final 3 bids being considered was from none other than Jonathan Scott from "Property Brothers" -- so, you know high rollers were in the mix.
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But the horse, an original sculpture from the high rollers club and priced at $230, was the prize for Dan Larro, a former employee here at Trump Taj Mahal.
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I'm also talking about the fact that the game was founded by gamblers and high rollers, and has been — and continues to be — overseen by owners with connections with gambling.
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High rollers want to be able to use third-party computer scripts that will allow them to enter thousands of lineups at once, something that your average player cannot do.
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Manila's Solaire casino registered a 61 percent increase in VIP turnover in the third quarter, while the number of junket operators bringing in foreign high rollers has more than doubled.
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The new casinos have helped to lure some high rollers, known as V.I.P. gamblers, from mainland China to the Philippines, increasing total gambling revenue to nearly $3 billion last year.
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Police said the gang, including people from China and Southeast Asia, was believed to be a loan-shark syndicate targeting foreign high-rollers, with 43 similar cases reported since 2015.
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Revenues have rebounded after a more than 2-year tumble triggered by Chinese President Xi Jinping's attack on corruption, with a revival in appetite from high-rollers and mass gamblers.
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Located in the center of the Strip, the Bellagio is a luxury property that offers fancy suites to high rollers but also books basic but upscale rooms for under $200.
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Chinese high-rollers have been steering clear of the former Portuguese colony due to an anti-graft campaign by the government in Beijing, sending gaming revenues to 5-year lows.
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These firms, which act on behalf of casino operators like MGM to bring in high-rollers, had been slammed by the corruption crackdown but broad consolidation has helped strengthen their positions.
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Virtual reality (VR) gambling wagers are set to rise 800 percent in the next five years driven by "high rollers" using the technology, according to a new report released on Monday.
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The builder had few reservations as well about his dealings with another allegedly mob-tied businessman with a problematic background who ran a helicopter service ferrying high rollers to Trump's casinos.
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The 40-year-old actor was spotted on a night out with rapper JAY-Z and other high-rollers during a three-hour outing at Beverly Hills hotspot Avra on Monday.
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Automating the service line simply would not work in a place with a "tipping culture" where high rollers and good tippers expect service, pronto — and where bartenders rely on those tips, too.
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In an unusual move, Crown issued a statement after the meeting saying "less than half" its international VIP annual revenue, or about 12 percent of total revenue, came from Chinese high-rollers.
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AX), including three Australians, were jailed for between nine and 10 months in 2017 and fined 8.62 million yuan ($1.2 million) for promoting gambling to lure Chinese high-rollers to its casinos.
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AX), including three Australians, were jailed for between nine and 10 months in 2017 and fined 8.62 million yuan ($1.2 million) for promoting gambling to lure Chinese high-rollers to its casinos.
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American Airlines fell more than 5 percent, and Wynn Resorts, which operates casinos in Macau, a special administrative region of China and a gambling haven for Chinese high rollers, tumbled 8 percent.
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During the past month, while Edge has fallen under a pall for its dealings with Epstein, I've learned that Brockman connected his "scientists" with high rollers anxious to seem smart, notably Epstein.
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Police said the gang, believed to be a loan shark syndicate, was targeting foreign high-rollers, with 11 similar cases reported since 2015 involving two groups composed of Chinese and Singaporean citizens.
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While operators like Sands have tried to accelerate the transition to the mass market segment, they are also increasing the proportion of high rollers they lend to directly rather than through junket operators.
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Chinese high-rollers have scaled back their spending, reflecting the far-reaching effects of a trade war between the United States and China, which has slowed growth in the world's second largest economy.
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Mr. Trump's experience seems to have taught him that leadership is largely a top-down affair, a matter of closing deals, barking out orders to subordinates, and buddying up to other high rollers.
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The operators aim to dominate that market, while tapping into Asian gamblers and high rollers from the United States, England and Asia by emphasizing the kind of plush amenities found in Las Vegas.
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"It's a matter of tradition, and it is a social event that reminds people that horse racing has been the epitome of elegance and the place where the high rollers gather," Delloye said.
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Many casino operators in those places try to lure Chinese high rollers, or big-stakes gamblers, to their properties by enticing them with rides on private jets, haute cuisine and swift visa approvals.
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Wall Street analysts suggest the big drop maybe due to fewer high rollers from Asia and competition from the Macau market as the game of baccarat is considered especially popular with international gamblers.
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Therefore Beijing has the power to "turn that tap on and off and stop high rollers coming there, so Macao is fulfilling its function, and China is pretty happy with it," he said.
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HONG KONG(Reuters) - Revenue at the world's biggest casino hub of Macau rose 16.3 percent in April, as new resorts helped draw high rollers and casual gamblers to the country's only legal casino hub.
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While the low-tax financial hub is often called a playground for the rich, Singapore's wealthy tend to live a more conservative, low-key life than Hong Kong's showy socialites or Macau's high-rollers.
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At home, he turned on the TV and, to his surprise, saw Levin onscreen: "I was flipping through the channels, and there was Harvey on 'High Rollers' "—a game show hosted by Alex Trebek.
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Since Trump has been unable to endear himself to the normal stable of GOP high rollers, Clinton's main Super PAC Priorities USA Action has raised $109.9 million compared to Trump's $7.6 million through July.
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If, however, you can attract a few high rollers who are willing to book several hundred or even several thousand entries apiece, the path to the $503 million first prize becomes a lot more manageable.
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MACAU (Reuters) - Overseas visitors are an increasingly common sight in China's gambling territory of Macau which is trying to diversify an economic model that has depended on mainland high rollers for more than a decade.
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It also stopped marketing its Australian casinos to mainland Chinese high-rollers, effectively walking away from its most lucrative customers at a time when Chinese VIPs are fuelling a boom in casino revenue in Macau.
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Although two-tone is often associated with flashy sports agents and Las Vegas high rollers, it can, worn the right way, add a welcome hint of alpha male sex appeal to an otherwise understated outfit.
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Even now that Coghlan has matched the income of these high rollers, he continues to meet monthly with the group of successful entrepreneurs that helped him get started, and he recommended that others do the same.
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A mild recovery in Crown's interim earnings pointed to a return of Chinese high-rollers, many of whom had put off overseas gambling jaunts amid a Chinese government campaign against shows of wealth among public officials.
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The idea of an illegal casino usually calls to mind some shady warehouse filled with high rollers, cigar smoke, and ritzy cocktails, or maybe a tightly-patrolled, Michael Clayton-esque hovel tucked into some city alleyway.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Casino operator Genting Singapore posted its smallest annual profit in five years, hurt by poor performance in its business from high rollers as well as an increase in impairments and fair value losses.
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Lam, who used to bring high rollers to Macau's top casinos including Sands China and Wynn Macau, has faded from prominence over the past few years as Beijing's crackdown on corruption has crippled so-called junket operations.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau hit a five-month high in May, although softer demand from high rollers amid a slowdown in the world's No.2 economy and a Sino-U.
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Wong, who returned $4.63 million and 488.28 million pesos ($10.05 million) to Philippine authorities from millions of dollars he took from two Chinese high-rollers, has denied any role in one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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They are "crybabies" and high rollers, not people who needed money for rent or food, he told the jury, which is largely made up of working-class people, judging from the job descriptions given during jury selection.
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American Airlines dropped more than 235 percent in early trading, and Wynn Resorts, which operates casinos in Macau, a special administrative region of China and a gambling haven for Chinese high rollers, dropped more than 2000 percent.
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HONG KONG, April 15 (Reuters) - Captain Valerie Lyzhyn and his 45 crew are stranded in Hong Kong, big losers in a gambling slump triggered by a Chinese crackdown on corruption that has scared off the high-rollers.
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And however much some maintain that disparities in pay-cheques do not correspond to differences in human worth, such well-meaning pieties feel hollow when high-rollers earn hundreds or thousands of times what ordinary folk take home.
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The ruling is a major step towards closing a case that has forced Melbourne-based Crown to abandon its strategy of luring Chinese high rollers to the casino hub of Macau and instead shift its focus back home.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese court jailed 16 employees of Crown Resorts Ltd, including three Australians, in a quick-fire trial on Monday that caps a lengthy probe into how the firm lured Chinese high-rollers to its casinos.
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The lawyer said that all of the people who placed their money with Shkreli's funds were sophisticated investors, or had top-notch financial advisors, and were "high rollers" who wanted to exploit Shkreli's genius to make big returns.
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Last weekend at U Bistro, a lounge with a buzzing bar filled with local high rollers, the price of the dollar was "all people are talking about," said Dina Alhassani, an education consultant at one of the tables.
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Majordomo, which opened in Los Angeles last year, is at least half Korean, but the menu is loaded up with other stuff, a lot of which is big and showy and seemingly designed to dazzle the high rollers.
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And which of the men in her life — Eric (Frederick Weller), her con-man boyfriend; Joel (Garrett Hedlund), the striving artist living in her barn; or one of the scheming high-rollers on her mountaintop — did the deed?
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Wong, who returned $4.63 million and 488.28 million pesos ($10.05 million) to Philippine authorities from the millions of dollars he took from two Chinese high-rollers, has denied any role in one of the world's biggest cyber heists.
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HONG KONG, June 1 (Reuters) - Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau hit a five-month high in May, although softer demand from high rollers amid a slowdown in the world's No.2 economy and a Sino-U.
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"We reiterate our view that gaming revenue in Macau is likely to decline 0-10 percent in 2016, given policy headwinds and the structural shift to mass market customers from high rollers," said Standard & Poor's credit analyst Sophie Lin.
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The company is facing acute challenges with visits from high rollers plunging after the typhoon in October and some $1.2 billion in outstanding receivables, of which $730 million was over a year old, according to its 2018 annual report.
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In my tracksuit bottoms and cheap t-shirt I'm studiously ignored by the team in the high rollers room, or as ignored as anyone can be in a casino in a city that's as surveillance heavy as Las Vegas.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Swiss Alpine town of Davos is used to celebrities and high-rollers, but even it is relishing the new challenge posed by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to attend the World Economic Forum this month.
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An escalator rises to the poker room, and high rollers can take a private elevator up to a "garden suite" on the third floor, where there will be two-story villas with interior pools, all with their own butlers.
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HONG KONG, April 1(Reuters) - A near two-year tumble in gambling revenue in China's Macau, the world's largest casino hub, continued in March with a 16.3 percent fall as visits by big-spending high-rollers became even more infrequent.
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But the opening of new resorts in the world's biggest casino hub over the past few months has helped revive revenue by attracting casual gamblers as well as high-rollers, prompting analysts to call a bottom to Macau's gaming industry slump.
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D.F.S. high rollers similarly come with demands, and because there's no powerful regulatory body involved, DraftKings and FanDuel have been mostly free to set the parameters of play, which, as it turns out, is near anarchy, especially for the D.F.S. elite.
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In some ways, this ambitious service is a throwback to the premise Uber launched with a decade ago: offer a sleek and convenient transportation option so customers with too much disposable income can feel like high rollers — or "ballers" — while traveling.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau fell 8.3 percent in April, the biggest year-on-year drop since June 2016, due to tempered demand from high rollers amid a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy.
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Since the weekend, media have said Crown hired travel agents with ties to drug traffickers to bring in the gamblers, knowingly allowed the gamblers to launder money at its casinos and pressured immigration officials to fast-track visas for high rollers.
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"Thirty years ago I might have been dealing with people at a small casino who had a falling out and one of them is leaving to go to a competitive organization and they steal the high-rollers list," said Brill.
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Wong, who has denied involvement in the heist, has also said that he is willing to return almost $85033 million given to him as debt repayment by two Chinese high rollers who allegedly transferred the stolen money to the Philippines.
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He wagered up to a million dollars a night, but wandered around glitzy Las Vegas casinos in sweatpants and flip-flops, and carried his own drink into the high rollers' area because he didn't want to tip the waitresses too much.
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The Philippines' gross gaming revenue from casinos and electronic gaming sites rose 12 percent to 88 billion pesos ($1.7 billion) in the first half versus a year ago, Pagcor data showed, driven by high-rollers from China and South Korea.
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Yakuza 03 gives us a glimpse of what Japan's bubble era economy flush with money and success looks like, from its biggest high-rollers to the people living in the shadows of polite society—primarily, those tied to organized crime.
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When he walked past the two giant stone lions and through the glass doors into the lobby, greeters would probably have ushered him the roughly 50 steps to the wooden doors with frosted glass where high rollers check into the hotel.
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It was the heyday of the corporate raid, when high rollers like Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens were buying up companies, firing the managers, turning everything upside down and reveling in the shareholder value they claimed to have created.
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On any given night you might stumble into a club that feels wholly the preserve of French expats, or others playing Mando-pop where the only foreign faces are the Russian "models" paid 300 RMB to dance on the tables with high rollers.
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His video comes a week after the actor was spotted out in public for the first time since the incident, as he and pal rapper JAY-Z joined other high-rollers for a three-hour poker game at Beverly Hills hotspot Avra.
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Today, the area is known for its bankers and high-rollers, but the name Wall Street, from the original Dutch "de Waal Straat," derives from a 3.5-meter fence built to keep hogs from causing damage to the streets and residents' gardens.
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The arena box office currently has premium "ringside" seats listed for as much as $98,500, but it's unknown what price those tickets will eventually sell for, if anything, because casinos will often give them away to high rollers and high-profile attendees.
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MONTE CARLO — Under a painted ceiling, opulent chandeliers, and within a historic building 156 years old, 803 international boxers will fight in extraordinary circumstances, competing in front of an exclusive audience of high-rollers, European royalty, and the British boxing promoter Eddie Hearn.
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But the properties - featuring thousands of hotel rooms, an aerial gondola and a scale version of the Eiffel - are opening as Macau gambling revenues languish at 5-year lows and a corruption crackdown forces Chinese high-rollers to play in rival Asian destinations.
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SHANGHAI, June 26 (Reuters) - Three Australians went on trial in China on Monday along with a dozen other Crown Resorts Ltd employees and former employees accused of gambling crimes, following a lengthy probe into how the firm lured Chinese high-rollers to its casinos.
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New users chomping at the bit to start swapping for digital currencies or current high-rollers looking to push the daily limits should note that completing Coinbase's identity verification, which requires uploading a driver's license for U.S. users, is a prerequisite for either new perk.
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He carried his own drink into the high rollers' area because he didn't want to tip the waitresses much, according to a deposition obtained exclusively by CNN that was part of a 2013 civil lawsuit Paddock brought against the Cosmopolitan Hotel over a fall.
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The firm allegedly opened covert shell companies and offshore accounts to protect the fortunes of high rollers worldwide -- associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, leaders from FIFA and men whom the United States has indicted for corruption have all been traced back to the papers.
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The demise of the stadium, which saw massive crowds at its peak in the 1960s, comes as China seeks to cut Macau&aposs dependence on the high-rollers who helped propel the city&aposs transformation from a seedy backwater into a global gambling powerhouse.
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These expenses - together with slowing gambling revenues as a boom in new regional casinos lure Macau's high rollers to places such as Vietnam, Cambodia and Russia's Vladivostok - mean it will be tough for operators with poor efficiencies like SJM Holdings to promise high returns, analysts said.
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Located on a remote coastline 75 miles outside Ho Chi Minh City, the complex includes a gleaming Vegas-style tower, a golf course designed by the legendary Greg Norman, and a casino with 90 tables and a private area for high rollers dubbed the Pearl Room.
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The weigh-in in front of nearly 7,000 raucous fight fans at T-Mobile Arena kicked off the party ahead of Saturday's fight as high rollers, sport and entertainment celebrities flood into 'Sin City' for what is being billed as the richest fight of all-time.
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Since Crown disclosed that 18 of its staff were being held in China for unspecified "gambling offences", the company - 48 percent owned by billionaire James Packer - has torn up its strategy of luring Chinese high rollers to the casino hub of Macau, shifting its focus back home.
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The case also comes at a difficult time for gambling revenues in the former Portuguese colony, which have slumped to five-year lows, as China's anti-corruption campaign has deterred conspicuous consumption by high rollers and as economic growth in the world's second-largest economy slows.
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Analysts at China-specialist firm JL Warren told Dow Jones that it was common practice for casino executives to visit China to market non-Chinese casinos and to chase high-rollers for outstanding payments, adding that 14 Korean casino staff were detained in China in similar circumstances last year.
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And Finn (John Boyega) and his sidekick Rose (Kelly Marie Tran) try to evade their fascist pursuers by rubbing shoulders with the galaxy's high-rollers, just as Han Solo and Princess Leia once did, only the shoulder-rubbing takes place in a casino rather than in Cloud City.
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Then they searched across and they tried to find the high-rollers database because that's what was of value to them, and they were able to find some of that try to pull it back across the network and steal the data and move it up to a cloud.
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Let's give a hand for strippers raking in almost $100k during BET Awards weekend in L.A. We broke the story, 2 elite strip clubs -- Ace of Diamonds and Crazy Girls -- flew in 50 of the nation's hottest strippers to meet demand from high rollers in town for the award show.
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Yet proxy betting is growing at such a pace in the Philippines that Suncity, the top junket operator bringing in high rollers from China, told Reuters in April that 80 percent of its business comes from proxy gambling and 20 percent from customers traveling to casinos for live table games.
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You'll have to shell out for the LTE version, even if you don't want to pay the carrier fee to make it work without your phone, just to get an Apple Watch with a stainless steel case or, for the high rollers, the Hermès version or the luxury $1,299 Apple Watch Edition.
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The Buffalo Bills cheerleaders, before the squad disbanded in the face of a wage lawsuit, said they were told to do jumping jacks in tryouts to see if their flesh jiggled, and had to attend a golf tournament for sponsors where high rollers paid cash to watch bikini-clad cheerleaders do back flips.
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Being a member of the rarefied tribe got Ms. Atencio unusual access to high-rollers who don't necessarily give interviews easily, including Eli Broad of the Broad Foundation in Los Angeles; the Miami museum patrons Norman and Irma Braman; the Greek Cypriot industrialist Dakis Joannou, and British jeweler and diamond dealer Laurence Graff.
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Philippine authorities said they had shut down two properties owned by Lam, who is a Chinese citizen and head of Hong Kong-listed Jimei International Lam, who used to bring high rollers to Macau's top casinos including Sands China and Wynn Macau, has faded from prominence over the past few years as a Chinese crackdown on corruption has crippled so-called junket operations.
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With the exception of the lead (Cherise Boothe), the other seven actors in the company (MaYaa Boateng, Marcus Callender, J. Bernard Calloway, Dashiell Eaves, Ian Lassiter, Nikiya Mathis, and Heather Alicia Simms) pitch in gamely to play many different characters (family, drug addicts, high rollers, prisoners, and rappers), and Kaye Voyce's costumes admirably help the imagination with these fast transitions in situation and persona.
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The National Park Service had to redirect almost $2.5 million normally intended for the upkeep of community parks and green spaces for the celebration, while the Trump International Hotel -- at the center of an ongoing conflict-of-interest scandal of the Trump presidency -- will likely rake in profits from the many GOP high-rollers who choose to stay there as a means of currying favor with the President.
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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The Swiss Alpine town of Davos is used to celebrities and high-rollers, but even it is relishing new attention being heaped on it with U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to attend the World Economic Forum this month Trump's visit to Davos for the annual meet-up of global political and business leaders will be the first for a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton came in 2000.
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Themes fall under a wide range of cultural pastiche: bootleg interpretations of movies (this year, in addition to a skit called "You Bet Jurrasic's Good," there was also "The CODfather: the SEAquel"), the historical (pirates, Ancient Rome, 1920s high rollers), the "exotic," to them (Aztecs, Voodoo priests, Hawaiian Islanders), and the just plain weird (a group dressed as fat Italian waiters, several performances devoted to the Pope's choice in cheesesteaks, a hundred guys all costumed as members of glam rock band KISS, holding tiny umbrellas).
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" He continued: "While the whole country is in an uproar about Turing Pharmaceuticals, a one-drug start-up pharma company attempting to raise prices on a single AIDS drug, the real issue is a $211 billion monster only Wall Street could love — an extremely leveraged company that set the standard for this type of abuse, while being cheered on by a cadre of Wall Street high-rollers too wealthy to fret over their own personal health care costs, and its posse of hedge-fund operators.
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