These mergers are horrible for advantage players. You get barred in one casino your barred in the entire country. I remember the old days when you had multiple casino operators.
100% on point. An MGM/Caesars merger would be bad news for consumers, employees and industry as a whole. Have to believe Adelson and Wynn ceo would be using their influence in DC to have it squashed.
Frissora was forced out by board due to lagging stock price and some corporate theft. Wait for the reports to leak on David Honeymeyer, the former big exec for them who was just fired for embezzlement that stretched into 7 figures. Honeymeyer promoted to big title under Frissora's watch.
Boyd is no longer in for buying Rio. They just spent a lot of cash on hand on out of state regional casinos and don't want to overextend at this time with Wall St not high on gaming sector. Unless someone swoops in I could see them flipping Rio into the vici REIT and making some cap improvements.