But why would such blue-chip outfits want to risk life and limb in Macau?
The other two winners were Steve Wynn and Stanley Ho, a longtime casino boss in Macau.
He has recently been living in Macau, but this year popped back for his father's birthday.
Las Vegas Sands generated 81% of its revenue in Macau and Singapore in Q3.
All four center on Adelson's exceedingly valuable concession, one of six casino concessions and subconcessions in Macau.
Behind Las Vegas Sands in Macau are U.S.-based competitors Wynn Resorts and, more distantly, MGM Resorts International.
Later in the movie, at a casino in Macau, 007 asks Severine (Berenice Marlohe) about her tattoo.
Boursicot, whose family traces its roots in Macau to 1710, has produced a series of paintings detailing the city's history.
Security has been beefed up in Macau in the run-up to the Portuguese enclave's handover back to China at midnight Sunday.
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You'll find Gaming Partners chips everywhere from the new Hooters Casino Hotel in Vegas to Steve Wynn's new gambling palace in Macau.
Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman, recently opened the Sands Cotai Central, making it the 35th casino in Macau.
In 2010, high rollers in Macau wagered about six hundred billion dollars, roughly the amount of cash withdrawn from all the A.T.
In February, Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino mogul, was awarded one of three new licenses to open a casino in Macau.
Wynn Resorts, which operates luxury casino and resorts, is seeing increasing turnover from VIP table games at its affiliated resorts in Macau.
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Galaxy is one of six license holders allowed to operate casinos in Macau, the only place in China where gambling is legal.
For Adelson and his peers, doing business in Macau is turning out to be opaque and intricate in ways outside their control.
Gary Loveman, the chairman of Caesars Entertainment, was one of the few casino bosses who passed up a chance to build in Macau.
Neither of the two big American casino operators in Macau, Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, have shown an appetite for projects in the Philippines.
In Macau Adelson seems to have next to no risk, yet has cleverly positioned himself to enjoy the upside if the project succeeds.
Even as the federal investigations continue, few people in Macau have both the interest and the capacity to impose greater control over the system.
"We had a tech guy in Macau who was able to set the stone, which to this day has never left China, " Hughes said.
Wynn Resorts denies wrongdoing in Macau and said Mr. Okada's challenges to the board process were an attempt to distract from his own alleged misdeeds.
For instance, investors are wary of recent rumblings out of Chinese government officials calling for a cap on the number of table games in Macau.
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The United States government has come to believe that the cash changing hands on the tables in Macau is only a small part of the picture.
Gross revenue for non-casino revenues increased by 50% in Macau and 10% in Las Vegas, with jumps in revenue per available room rates (RevPAR) in both locations.
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Las Vegas Sands makes the bulk of its earnings in Macau, the world's biggest gambling market and the only Chinese territory where casinos are allowed, and Singapore.
MGM, on the other hand, is well positioned to absorb recovering VIP growth in Macau, but will be held back by limited upside potential in Las Vegas.
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The Chinese in Macau celebrate the same religious festivals as their counterparts in Hong Kong, but there are also parties for Catholic festivals and Portuguese national holidays.
Management has lowered the debt load over the past year from 63% of assets, but we would not be surprised to see further growth initiatives particularly in Macau.
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