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Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson voiced his belief that online gambling causes cooties on Thursday...LOL.
The irascible casino mogul called into Bloomberg TV to confirm that Wednesday’s rabid anti-gambling op-ed in Forbes wasn’t a temporary bout of paranoia
resulting from having misread a pharmaceutical label, but did in fact represent his belief that online gambling is a “train wreck,” “really toxicity” and “a cancer waiting to happen.”
To dismiss suggestions that his opposition to online gambling was intended to protect his considerable brick-and-mortar casino biz, Adelson humble-bragged his #15 ranking on Forbes’
rich list and pointed out that the vast majority of his casino profits come from Asia, and thus have nothing to fear from US online gambling.
Adelson brought some of his US competitors into the mix by declaring he’d “just had lunch with Steve Wynn” and that the Wynn Resorts chairman was “not totally against what I am saying.
” As for online poker hopeful Caesars Entertainment, which lacks the Asian presence enjoyed by Sands and Wynn, Adelson suggested Caesars “have their own challenges. I do not have challenges.”
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The irascible casino mogul called into Bloomberg TV to confirm that Wednesday’s rabid anti-gambling op-ed in Forbes wasn’t a temporary bout of paranoia
resulting from having misread a pharmaceutical label, but did in fact represent his belief that online gambling is a “train wreck,” “really toxicity” and “a cancer waiting to happen.”
To dismiss suggestions that his opposition to online gambling was intended to protect his considerable brick-and-mortar casino biz, Adelson humble-bragged his #15 ranking on Forbes’
rich list and pointed out that the vast majority of his casino profits come from Asia, and thus have nothing to fear from US online gambling.
Adelson brought some of his US competitors into the mix by declaring he’d “just had lunch with Steve Wynn” and that the Wynn Resorts chairman was “not totally against what I am saying.
” As for online poker hopeful Caesars Entertainment, which lacks the Asian presence enjoyed by Sands and Wynn, Adelson suggested Caesars “have their own challenges. I do not have challenges.”
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