With Monte Carlo - Las Vegas, you can't tell the players without a scorecard ---

Monte Carlo was originally conceived as a joint venture between Mirage Resorts and Gold Strike LLP. (Wynn was CEO and major shareholder of Mirage, though it was a public company; Gold Strike was private company owned by a group of casino executives including Glen Schaffer, x-Circus Circus CFO). The idea was that Mirage would contribute the land (part of the old Dunes land) and Gold Strike would manage the property, because they knew more about managing mid-level casino-hotels. Joint venture was structured as 50/50 ownership. Before it was even built, Circus Circus Enterprises bought Gold Strike LLP, so when Monte Carlo opened, it was joint venture between Mirage and Circus Circus. Since then, Mirage has been bought by MGM (now called MGM Mirage), so Steve Wynn out of the picture; and Circus Circus Ent. has changed names to Mandalay Bay Ent. But still a 50/50 joint venture, and financially successful as a property.

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