ACES Train could be snake eye for Atlantic City.

Atlantic City will drive you nuts if you stare at it long enough. Let me first say that an express train between New York City and Atlantic City can be a core strategy for the long term plausabiliy of the market.


This is sounds like pure hatorade but it all stems from excitement. I wanted to book passage on the great new ACES train. 2 first class round trip tickets are $320. Throw in the $750 it will cost you to stay at Borgata for 2 nights and you are now over a g. If you are more than 2 people you are better getting a limo. Drinks are free and you leave on your schedule.

Aces takes near 3 hours and that is if things as scheduled.

If you could put this idea in a time machine and go back two or three years it might work.

The only people this makes sense for is the person who wants to get hammered all night and get back on the train in morning instead of paying the high rates for AC hotel rooms on the weekend.

This is the key to the viability of Atlantic City. Either more hotel rooms or FASTER ways to get people to town. With a casino a stones throw from all but the 5 boroughs the town is fucked.

A for effort. F for timing.

AJ OUT

Happy New Year - Fuck 2008

I want to wish you a happy new year.

Lets agree last year blew. Reale Estate, Stock Market, Casino Industry took a shit on your chest. Lets hope Obama has got some tricks up his sleeve to fix this mess.

My predictions for 2009:

Sports Betting and Medicinal Marijuana Legalized in New Jersey

Harrahs Sells One AC Casino

Margaritaville Deal Collapses

Trump Goes Bankrupt

Boyd buys out MGM from Borgata

The Pier Closes or Shuts down most stores

An Indian Tribe Buys an AC Casino


Those are some of my best guesses. I want to wish Larry Mullin well in his new gig down under. His mind will be missed in AC. He and Sid Vicunta made the best 1-2 marketing punch AC had seen in 15 years. They are now both out of town. Will someone get Sid on the phone and get him back in NJ.

Till then eat shit and die.

AJ