Diamonds in the Ruffin

Others may be more creative, more ambitious and more flamboyant,
but nobody nobody on the modern scene today is as brilliant – or
as fortunate – at making deals as Phil Ruffin. The 72-year-old
Kansas billionaire sold the New Frontier land in 2007 for a
record $35 million an acre before the real estate crash, and now
he’s used a mere $775 million of that profit to pick up the
Treasure Island. For the first time this hour, Ruffin discloses
some new plans for the property, explains why he’s unlikely to
ever buy a Harrah’s property and reveals the reason he’ll never
build anything in Vegas. Plus, he dishes about Wynn, Trump, his
young wife and the billionaires’ poker game he wins year after
year.


In banter: Obama’s Vegas stage moment, Folies, Menopause and
Scintas closing, Rita will go on and on, MGM Mirage’s reservation
system woes, the F’Bleau will be finished, does anyone care about
Joaquin Phoenix’s music career?


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