The Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) is responsible for approving gaming machines and tables. The agency caps the number of available terminals and tables each year.<\/p>\n
The $1.6 billion ultra-luxury resort known as The 13 opened this fall but without a casino. DICJ officials said all the permits for slot machines and table games were exhausted, and no new concessions would be issued until 2019.<\/p>\n
SJM Holdings said it operated 1,408 mass market tables and 291 VIP tables in the third quarter of 2018. It hopes to receive DICJ approval to greatly expand on those numbers with hundreds of new permits for Grand Lisboa.<\/p>\n
The last major casino resort to open in Cotai was MGM Resorts’ $3.4 billion property. The gaming floor opened with 177 mass market tables, but no VIP tables.<\/p>\n
\nMGM CEO Jim Murren said he wasn’t concerned with the lack of VIP tables. “I believe we have created a resort that exactly targets the market that’s the fastest growing today \u2013 the upper-end mass market,” the executive explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Casinos in Macau have been catering to more of the general public than the high roller in recent years. The recent opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, which cuts auto travel time from Hong Kong to Macau from four hours to 40 minutes, is expected to further grow mass market play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Grand Lisboa Palace is asking Macau gaming regulators for authorization of between 300 and 500 new-to-market table games for its Cotai Strip resort. SJM Holdings, the parent company to the $4.6 billion property, says it hopes to have the resort completed in the first half of 2019. CEO Ambrose So Shu Fai explained that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":94352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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