Saipan’s casino industry will succeed or fail on the outcome of Best Sunshine International’s Macau-style junket operations, it has been forecast.
The gaming programme on the island in the Northern Marianas will be the first of its kind on US soil. It is expected to present challenges for regulators tasked with investigating junket operators from Asia.
Best Sunshine CEO Mark Brown said the Macau-style junket operations “will be our next step,” as they complete the construction and prepare for the full opening of the Grand Mariana Casino Resort in April 2017.
The discussion for junket operations then, he said, will be on a “profit share basis.” Slots at the temporary casino in T-Galleria do very well, he said, at $200 to $300 a day, as well as the gaming tables that collect a few thousand a day. “But,” he added, “VIP is where you make the millions.”
