Month: January 2024

Casino sales at the Dream Tower Casino Resort (file photo) in Jeju Island, which is a vacation destination, fell 20.0 percent month-on-month to about 14.33 billion won in September, according to data submitted Tuesday to the Korea Exchange. August sales fell 10.9 percent from July.

Nonetheless, revenue from the game business rose 336.1% in September, as judged from a year earlier. Casino sales at the property are reported after deducting rebates and fees.

Table game sales reached nearly 13.15 billion won in September, down 17.4% from August, but were up 358.3% from a year earlier, a period when island tourism was still affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Machine game sales last month were about 1.19 billion won, down 40.8 percent sequentially, but up 183.8 percent from a year ago.

Casino table “drops” in September, the amount customers paid to purchase chips for table games, came to about 103.76 billion won, up 67.7 percent from a year ago, but down 21.8 percent sequentially.

The Jeju Dream Tower recorded a total of 28,165 casino visitors in September, down only 1.9 percent from August.

According to financial data released on the resort operator Lotte Tour Development website, the number of casino visitors at the property in August was 28,718, breaking the monthly casino record since its opening in June 2021.

Hotel sales fell 24.9 percent sequentially to about 7.91 billion won in September, according to a Tuesday report. The figure also represents a 7.5 percent year-on-year decline.

The company has no comment on the reason for the change.

In the first nine months of this year, casino sales rose 186.5 percent year-on-year to nearly 103.6 billion won.

In the first nine months of Sept. 30, sales of machine games rose 182.7 percent to nearly 10.14 billion won, while sales of 90.22 billion won were up 187.0 percent year-on-year.

In the first nine months of this year, the cumulative drop in casino tables was 888.16 billion won, an increase of 180.0% year-on-year.

From January to September, hotel sales fell 23.2 percent year-on-year to about 69.27 billion won.

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Actual construction work to renovate the Grand Lisboa Casino Hotel in downtown Macau is likely to begin next year, President Daisy Hochupung said when asked by GGRAsia about Friday’s event.

The reform is currently in the planning stage, the executive said. She also confirmed that it will include the reconstruction of hotel rooms, the addition of restaurants, and plans for additional stores. She was speaking at a reception at the Grand Lisboa Palace Casino Resort in Kotai earlier this month to mark the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

After Grand Lisboa’s renovation, the “number of hotel rooms we will maintain” is the same, Ho said. According to information from the Macau government tourism agency, the property has 431 rooms and suites.

Grand Lisboa already has several restaurants, other food and beverage stores, jewelry stores, and gift shops, as well as several floors of casino games. The property also houses an additional outlet for Macau SLOT Co. Ltd., the city’s sports betting concession company.

The property has been one of Macau’s casino hotel complexes since February 2007 in phases.

Grand Lisboa posted total revenue of HK$2.4 billion ($306.5 million) in the first half of this year, including total casino gaming revenue (GGR) of HK$2.27 billion and non-gaming revenue of HK$137 million. This follows first-half earnings from SJM Holdings, which was announced in August.

In the six months to June 30, the hotel occupancy rate at the location was 87.8%, with per-room revenue of HK$901.

At Friday’s event, her group said it was ready to meet additional concession-related investments required by Macau’s government if Macau’s annual GGR reached more than 180 billion MOPs ($22.3 billion).

The six Macau concessionaries must increase their collective investment by up to 20% during the current 10-year concession period once the market-wide threshold of $180 billion is met.

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Until the second half of last season, LG’s foreign pitcher Casey Kelly (35) was destined to leave the KBO League. As he played for five years since 2019, his pitching power and stability declined significantly last year, and there were countless rumors of a substitution during the season.

It was during the Korean Series that LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, who had decided to replace both foreign pitchers, changed his mind. It was because of three folk balls that Kelly, who started in the first game, threw.

Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop, who recently called his first starting pitcher when he hired foreign pitcher Detrick N.S., also expects that he will win 15 games for Kelly, who will be the second starting pitcher at the same time. “One of the reasons I decided to renew Kelly’s contract is forkball. While adding one forkball, I created the conditions to play here for two to three more years,” Yeom said in a telephone interview. “With that forkball added, I think we can win 15 games.”

Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop asked him to add more folk balls throughout the season when he threw sliders and change-ups. He did so because he needed a pitching arsenal that could lower the ball speed and lose timing. However, fearing that he would strain his elbow, he did not throw one. Despite persuasion that the fact that throwing fork balls frequently cause injury to pitchers due to their ability to properly throw balls, Kelly threw fork balls in the first round of the Korean Series. “Don’t tell the manager in advance because it was a surprise event,” he said, revealing his folk balls that he had been quietly honing. Although he only threw three pitches, Kelly’s new pitching arduous to opposing KT batters, and LG is judging that he displayed potential.

Manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said, “It’s not because I threw the pitch type that I talked about. He showed how Kelly will change with the fork ball. I felt it myself, too. I decided to renew my contract because I thought I could go back to the old Kelly that the opponent had a hard time.”

Kelly has been LG’s ace player. There have been two seasons in which he has 15 wins in five years, namely in 2020 (15 wins) and in 2022 (16 wins). He was not the type that gave an overwhelming impression, and as time passed, the power was gradually diminishing as batters in the league adapted. Kelly has accepted the invitation for change, and is preparing to make full use of new weapons this year.

LG stressed that it is looking for a pitcher who can beat Kelly as the second starting pitcher while seeking a new foreign pitcher contract this year. While expecting 18 wins for the new pitcher N.S., Yeom Kyung-yeop also expects 15 wins from Kelly. 15 wins is an ace record for any team.

“Our team is equipped with good batting performance, defense, and a must-win team. If the starting pitcher himself manages to a certain extent, he can achieve 15 wins. Kelly, who failed last year, said, “I think this year is enough.” Manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, who has ordered changeups for new pitchers N.S. who mainly throws fastballs, is also certain that Kelly, who has decided to make changes by himself and is preparing for it, will revive.

Although LG won the title altogether last year, there was no pitcher with 15 wins. Lim Chan-kyu (14 wins) recorded the most wins in his team. Kelly won 10 games and Adam Plutko won 11 games, leaving a 30-win foreign duo often referred to as the conditions of the winning team. Since 1994, when there were Sanghoon Lee (18 wins), Kim Tae-won (16 wins), and Jeong Sam-heum (15 wins), it is only in 2022 when Kelly had 16 wins and Plutko had 15 wins. LG, which has won without a 30-win duo, is aiming for its second consecutive win, hoping for 30 wins by the new foreign duo that has added a new lineup. Kelly’s revival is essential.

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KBS N Sports Baseball commentator Park Yong-taek (45) attended the 2024 KBO Rookie Orientation held at the Daejeon Convention Center on the 9th as a lecturer. He has started training the team in front of 132 freshmen from 10 clubs, including rookie and nurturing players, who are at the starting line of the KBO League. He sincerely delivered his experiences and advice on the importance of managing his body, people, mental and money as a professional baseball player, in detail.

Park, who was invited to the rookie orientation for two consecutive years since last year, said, “To be honest, a professional baseball player does not have work-life balance until he is in the uniform or until he is on the field (as a leader) even after retirement. I have never seen a player who is a good match for work-life balance and has succeeded in baseball. Giving money to players in a club means sacrificing your life a little for the team,” adding that he shared an episode with manager Kim Sung-keun, who leads the Monsters in the entertainment program “The Greatest Baseball.”

“Even after retirement, I have continued to play baseball in the strongest baseball league. Of course, I was playing it seriously, but I never enjoyed my favorite baseball (in the professional league). I thought I would do it while enjoying 20 to 30 percent of the game, but manager Kim Seong-geun came and said, “I’m not getting paid for it.” “I’m not broadcasting to make you laugh. I’m giving you money to play baseball well.” He said, “Play baseball with the mindset that you are a professional baseball player, not a retired player,” and I felt like I got hit in the back of my head. As the manager said, I am still playing baseball after retirement, even after retirement. “Even now, I think that I am a professional baseball player,” he said. “You should basically have that mindset as well.” In fact, the strongest baseball advocates the real baseball and continues to be loved by fans with real matches between retired and amateur players.

He did not spare realistic advice. “It is never helpful to hold it in even though it hurts. If there were any regrets in professional life, it is about participation in overseas leagues or the national team. I had problems with throwing balls (in outdoor defense),” Park said. “My shoulder hurt a lot in my second or third year, but I ran stubbornly. I missed the surgery and rehabilitation period after a few years. I spent more than 15 years in such a bad condition on my shoulder. Many players develop such diseases but if they get sick, it will explode someday. I need to approach the coaches with an open mind and take good care of my body.”

“In order to remove uniforms without regret, we should continue to challenge ourselves without giving up,” said Park, who also stressed the importance of privacy and fan service outside the stadium. “The growth I expect is to keep going upward, but the actual growth does not come true. Sometimes it falls, and sometimes it goes up slightly and then falls deeper. Then, at one point, suddenly, it pops up. Too many players give up just before the start. You should not give up from the beginning. Even if you fail once, you have to go up again. The result comes out, not come out,” he stressed.

Finally, Park said, “You have to shake in the strong wind, soak in the strong rain, and withstand the hot sunlight to germinate, bloom, and bear fruit. In the future, you will be hit by so many rain and wind as professional baseball players, with hot sunlight and very cold winters. There will also be dark darkness where the front seems to be hard to see, and there will be times when the end goes into a tunnel somewhere. But many seniors went through all that time and climbed to the spot. I hope they will become passionate professional Korean baseball players who will never tire.”

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Franz Beckenbauer, honorary chairman of Bayern Munich, nicknamed “Kaiser” (Emperor), has died. He was 78.

“He died peacefully the day before,” Beckenbauer’s family told dpa news agency on Monday.

They did not disclose the cause of his death.

Born in Munich in 1945, Beckenbauer joined the prestigious Bayern Munich in 1958 at the age of 13.

He led Bayern Munich to the top of the Bundesliga all four times and to three consecutive European Cups, the predecessor to the UEFA Champions League.

With the national team, he captained the team to the 1974 World Cup victory over West Germany.

After his playing career, Beckenbauer coached the West German national team to the 1990 World Cup title.

Beckenbauer won the World Cup as a player and manager alongside Brazil’s Mario Jagaloo and France’s Didier Deschamps, who passed away today. 카지노사이트가이드

He became a football administrator in 1994 when he took over as chairman of Bayern Munich and served as president of the organizing committee that brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany.

In his later years, he was investigated by the German Football Association (DFB) and then by Swiss prosecutors over allegations that he paid off FIFA executive committee members during the 2006 World Cup bid.

He escaped punishment when the statute of limitations expired in 2020.

During his career, Beckenbauer redefined the role of the libero with his grace and lightness of touch, according to the dpa news agency.

Current German national team coach Julian Nagelsmann said: “Beckenbauer’s interpretation of the libero position changed soccer.

Perhaps it reflected the spirit of cultural liberalism and freedom that was spreading in Europe in the 1960s,” he lamented.

Veteran baseball infielder Kim Sun-bin (35) has signed a free agent (FA) contract with his team, KIA. “We signed Kim Sun-bin for a total of 3 billion won, including a down payment of 600 million won, an annual salary of 1.8 billion won, and an option of 600 million won, for a contract period of three years,” KIA said on Thursday.

Kim Sun-bin is a franchise star who joined KIA in 2008. In 1509 career KBO games, he batted .303 (1506 hits) with 564 RBIs, 32 home runs, and 149 stolen bases. In 2023, he continued his hot bat with a .320 batting average and 134 hits. This is his second free agent contract after signing a four-year, $4 billion contract with KIA in 2020.

Samsung recently parted ways with David Buchanan, 35, 온라인카지노who served as its ace with a 54-28 record and a 3.02 ERA over four seasons, and brought in new foreign pitcher Denny Reyes, 28. “The team signed Reyes to a contract totaling $800,000, including a $100,000 signing bonus, $500,000 in salary, and $200,000 in options,” Samsung announced. Reyes, a native of the Dominican Republic, went 2-2 with a 7.78 ERA for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 2023 season. He went 2-3 with a 5.79 ERA at Triple-A last year.

Noh Si-hwan (24-Hanhwa), who won the KBO’s home run title last year (31), made a meaningful donation to his alma mater.

At the end of the year, Noh donated a total of $20 million worth of baseball equipment to his alma mater, Suyeong Elementary School, Gyeongnam Middle School, and Gyeongnam High School.

He personally visited his alma mater to encourage his juniors who were training in cold weather, and presented winter clothing and baseball equipment to Suyeong Elementary, 안전놀이터 and baseball equipment and a bat with his initials on it to Gyeongnam Middle and Gyeongnam High.

“This is the place that made me who I am today. received a lot of help from my seniors when I was younger, and now I’m happy to be in a position to give back. I look forward to seeing the juniors grow up and play professionally together.”

“I will make up for what I lacked last year and do better, and most importantly, I will help the team reach the fall baseball season,” said Noh.

Noh, who joined Hanwha with the third overall pick in the 2019 second round, exploded with potential last year in his fifth year. In 131 games, he batted .298 (153-for-514) with 31 home runs, 101 RBIs, a .388 on-base percentage, a .541 slugging percentage and a .929 OPS, leading the league in both home runs and RBIs.

South Korean Sungjae Lim is tied for second place after the first day of The Sentry, the opening event of the 2024 season on the U.S. Professional Golf (PGA) Tour ($20 million purse).

Sungjae Lim carded nine birdies and one bogey for an 8-under 65 in the first round of the season-opening The Sentry at the par-73 Plantation Course in Kapalua, Hawaii on Friday (Sept. 5).

That puts him in a tie for second place at 9-under par, one shot behind leader Sahith Sigala (USA).

Colin Morikawa (USA), Jason Day (AUS) and Camilo Viejas (COL) rounded out the top five.

The tournament carries a $3.6 million first prize. The 59-man field will play four rounds with no cuts.

After dropping two strokes with three birdies and a bogey on the front nine, Lim moved up the leaderboard with four straight birdies on Nos. 11-14.

He also made a two-foot birdie putt on the 17th (par-4) and added a birdie on the final 18th (par-5).

“It feels great to shoot 8-under par for the first round of the new year,” said Lim after his first round. “I always shoot well when I come to this course, so I think I played confidently from the first shot today,” he added.

“I made nine birdies today, but this course has wide fairways, so as long as you have good second shot distance and accuracy, you can make a lot of birdie chances,” he said. “I got a new putter this week, and it feels good to play well with the new putter.”

Lim will be looking for his third career victory, two years and three months after his first since the ShrinersChildren Open in October 2021.

“It looks like it’s going to be windy this week, but this course has a lot of birdie opportunities, so if I can stay in good shape on the day and play patiently, I’ll be able to play well all the way through,” he said.

Leader Sigala 카지노사이트 will be looking to make it two wins in a row after claiming his first tour victory at the Fortinet Championship last September.

World No. 1 Scott Schauffler (USA) is tied for seventh (7-under 66) with Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay (USA).

Kim Joo-hyung and Ahn Byung-hoon are tied for 19th after shooting a 5-under 68 on the day.

Playing with new caddie Daniel Parrett for the first time this season, Kim had one eagle, four birdies and one bogey. Byung-hoon Ahn had seven birdies and two bogeys.

Siu Kim finished the first day in a tie for 37th place (3-under 70).

Hyundai Capital has won four straight games. The team is unbeaten in four games under acting head coach Jin Soon-ki.

Hyundai Capital defeated KB Insurance 3-0 (25-21, 26-24, 27-25) in straight sets in the fourth round of the Dodram 2023-2024 V-League Men’s Division at Uijeongbu Gymnasium on Thursday.

Heo Soo-bong and Ahmed combined for a team-high 21 points. In both the second and third sets, the duo came up with the final points in deuce battles. Jeon Kwang-in supported with 11 points.

Hyundai Capital, 바카라사이트 which switched to acting head coach Jin Soon-ki after the resignation of former coach Choi Tae-woong, has won four straight games, starting with a victory over the KEPCO on March 24.

All four games were three-point games and the team quickly accumulated points.

With a record of 8W13L and 28 points, Hyundai Capital moved up to fifth place, pushing OK Financial Group down to sixth. They are now just one point behind fourth-place KEPCO (10W-10L-29) and seven points behind third-place Korean Air (11W-9L-35), raising hopes for spring volleyball.

KB Insurance, on the other hand, was led by Bijena’s 27 points, but the rest of the domestic players were underwhelming. The seventh and bottom-ranked KB Insurance, which is in a six-game losing streak, remained tied for 14 points with a 3-18 record.

Meanwhile, in the women’s match at the Hwaseong Indoor Stadium, Heungkuk Saengsim defeated IBK Sangsung Bank in a close match with a set score of 3-2 (25-13, 12-25, 25-22, 20-25, 17-15). Yelena led the way with 29 points, followed by Kim Yeon-kyung with 18. Kim also chipped in with 10 points, including four blocks.

The match was tied at one set apiece until the last five deuces.

Facing match point at 14-15, Heungkuk Life made a deuce with a staggered attack from Kim Yeon-kyung and then turned it around with an open attack from Kim. Yelena’s dig followed by Kim’s final point ended the two-hour, five-minute battle.

With 16 wins, 5 losses and 44 points, second-ranked Heungkuk Life pulled back to within three points of first-ranked Hyundai E&C (15 wins, 5 losses and 47 points). IBK, 토토사이트 추천 which saw its winning streak snapped, remained in fourth place with 11 wins and 10 losses to increase its lead to 32 points.

Hyundai Capital has won four straight games in a row after changing its coach.

It was a bloodbath with two consecutive deuce sets, but all that remained was a ‘shutout’ result. KB Insurance’s breakthrough became even more elusive.

Hyundai Capital completed a shutout victory over KB Insurance in the fourth round of the Dodram 2023-2024 V League Men’s Division at Uijeongbu Gymnasium on Thursday with a set score of 3-0 (25-21, 26-24, 27-25).

With the victory, Hyundai Capital extended its winning streak to four games

Beating KB Insurance after defeating KEPCO and Woori Card in a two-game series following the firing of former coach Choi Tae-woong. With a record of 8 wins and 13 losses and 28 points, the team moved up to fifth place, overtaking OK Financial Group (27 points). Fourth-ranked KEPCO (29 points) is also within reach.

With 6-foot-5 setter Kim Myung-kwan firmly entrenched as a starter, the ball flow has changed. 토토사이트 Heo Soo-bong (21 points) has become an ace presence, while veteran Jeon Kwang-in (11 points) has picked up his game. Behind them, foreign player Ahmed (21 points) also stepped up.

On the other hand, KB Insurance hasn’t been able to take the pressure off Bijena (27 points), who has been responsible for more than half of the team’s offense all season long. Unlike the “monster” Keita (2m6), who led KB Insurance to the championship, Bijena stands at 1m94, which is relatively small for a foreign player. This makes her quick and skilled, but it’s hard to keep up when the pressure is on.

Hyundai Capital took a comfortable lead in the first set.

At 6-6, Heo Soo-bong took the lead with a late attack and back-to-back blocks. Ahmed and Jeon Kwang-in combined to take the lead at 20-16, and Ahmed’s service ace clinched the first set. There was a moment when Heo Soo-bong and libero Park Kyung-min tangled while chasing the ball, but fortunately there were no injuries.

They took the second set in a hard-fought battle. A back-and-forth match turned into a tie at 15-16 with Lee’s service ace.

Ahmed and Bijena went toe-to-toe to reach 24-24 deuce. Here, Ahmed’s decisive backhand attack came through, and a scarecrow closed out the set.

After taking a 7-3 lead in the third set, Hyundai Capital allowed KB Insurance to tie the score at 10-10 with Bijena leading the charge. The team regained the lead at 15-11 with a kill from Heo Su-bong amidst Ahmed’s supporting fire, 사설 토토사이트 but three consecutive errors gave them the lead at 17-13. KB Insurance centered on Bijena to produce the second deuce of the day, 24-24.

In the end, it was Heo Su-bong who decided the match. A service error by KB Insurance’s Kim Hong-jeong made it 26-25, and Husubong’s spike landed on the court to end the match.