Участник:DICJ reviewing Win Palace table allocation request
While details of the number of new market game tables requested by Win Palace have yet to be revealed, previous reports indicated the $4.1 billion Kotai venture was set up for at least 500 tables. Local media reported today that Paulo Martins Chan, director of DICJ, a Macau game regulator, told reporters on the sidelines of Monday's event that Win had officially submitted a request for table allocation and was currently under consideration.
Wynn Palace will open, and what keeps struggling to predict the allotment is that Chan seems to keep referring to the 3% annual compound table cap. Restrictions on new market tables are bound to please operators of some or all of the upcoming casinos less.
If the calculation is accurate based on 5,485 game tables and 5,957 game tables at the end (5,994 game tables allowed), neither Win Palace nor Macao in Paris, which is scheduled to open in September, will be able to meet its target. And it doesn't look much better when MGM Kotai opens.
Indeed, there are also hotels with casinos scheduled to open between now and horse, and a total of six luxury hotels offering nearly 10,000 new rooms. Observers should expect to see a creative strategic move to place existing tables in some of the new locations.
A fifth hotel tower is expected to open along with Melco Crown's dream city Grand Lisboa Palace and MGM Kotai. Melco received only 250 tables in two allotments to the multi-billion dollar Studio City Macau, which opened last October. Grand Lisboa Palace was originally planned for about 700 tables. Thirteen hotels scheduled to open in the fourth quarter at a cost of US$7 million per room no longer mention the game on their websites, fact sheets or stock exchanges.
The number allowed under the game regulator's restrictions is simply not enough to serve the four known casinos opening in the SAR before the end of the day