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This is the most-jinxed casino

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This is the most-jinxed casino

In Atlantic City, NJ, an American capital of urban blight and unluckily busted-out casinos, the Revel stands as the waterfront town’s most jinxed gambling den. It usually takes decades for casinos there to go out of business. Revel managed the feat in just two years. According to the Real Deal, it opened in 2012, went into bankruptcy twice, and permanently shut its doors in 2014.

Revel’s misfortune appeared to have created a sweet deal for South Florida real estate investor Glenn Straub. Things were going so badly in Atlantic City that he was able to pay just $82 million for a property that cost $2.4 billion to build.

But now he’s enduring what appears to be the Revel curse. “This state stinks,” he told the Star-Ledger last week, complaining about the slowness of New Jersey regulators and the difficulty of obtaining the necessary licenses that will allow him to get cards in the air and dice on the felt. “It just stinks . . . I worked in five states. This is 10 times worse than what it would be anyplace else.”

Star-crossed from the outset, construction on the short-lived hotel-casino began in 2005. That was when accountant-turned-law-enforcer-turned-casino-executive Kevin DeSanctis was given the opportunity to have his own gaming enterprise with Morgan Stanley as the backer.

Then, in for some $800 million, as the financial markets cratered in 2006, the Wall Street firm cooled on the casino. Morgan Stanley “was fighting for its life and this happened to be a pretty big cash drain,” DeSanctis told me back in 2012.

Rather than being stuck with a partially finished casino — which would have probably been torn down if left for dead — Morgan sunk in another $400 million, finished building the structure and enclosed it to protect against the elements.

DeSanctis wound up raising enough money — from 60 or so sources — to buy the property from Morgan Stanley. He opened a sleek spot with beautiful rooms, gorgeous ocean views and superior amenities. But the gambling floor was difficult to find, smoking was forbidden (not smart for a casino, where the best customers tend to be people with bad habits and limited self control), and there was no high-limit room — a sequestered area that most casinos focus on since it’s where their most money-blowing suckers tend to gamble.

In 2012, DeSanctis told me, “Maybe I’m weird or maybe I don’t get something that everybody else understands. But I never understood the appeal of a high-limit room. I always thought that part of the fun of gambling was doing it around other people. If I were to bet $50,000 on a hand of blackjack, I’d want people to know I am doing it.”

His thinking may have been off on that point, and it may have contributed to the pair of bankruptcies that allowed Straub to score the casino at its bargain-basement price. But now Straub seems to be wondering if the doomed property is financially worthwhile at any valuation.

When a reporter from the Star-Ledger asked about his plans to reopen the shut-down Revel — ironically, the name means “celebration” in French — Straub seemed to be running out of patience. “To hell with that,” he said. “I’ve got other things to do. I don’t have time to be screwing around with this stuff.”

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