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Gallagher resigned as chief executive and from the Park Place board under pressure amid concerns about the company’s slumping stock and disappointing earnings. He will be replaced by Wallace Barr, Park Place’s chief operating officer, effective immediately.

Gallagher also is expected to resign his position as chairman of the Nevada Resort Association, the casino industry’s top lobbying group in Nevada. A replacement for Barr is under consideration, Park Place spokesman Robert Stewart said.

Stewart declined to comment further. A call to Gallagher was referred to Stewart, who said Gallagher was not available. Barr also was unavailable for comment.

The company’s board of directors made the decision at a meeting in Atlantic City Tuesday.

Analysts said the move doesn’t appear to signal a change in direction. Some said it marks a positive step for a company that has suffered from the lack of a clear, long-term strategy.

Barr has more than 20 years of experience in the Togel Hongkong gaming industry and has served most of those years at Park Place. He is expected to continue the execution of several plans initiated by Gallagher, including a goal of cutting $100 million in operating costs next year. Barr is also expected to add to Park Place’s entertainment offerings as well as its food and beverage lineup, analysts said.

“(T)he board felt that having someone with more operations experience in the CEO role would get more buy-in from the company’s 28 properties for existing initiatives such as cost-cutting, marketing programs, (Park Place’s) player card program, etc.,” UBS Warburg analyst Robin Farley wrote in a research note Tuesday.

“Mr. Barr’s operating background and reputation in the industry should enable him to leverage this strong portfolio of brands,” noted CIBC World Markets analyst William Schmitt in a separate note to investors Tuesday.

New leadership may not be enough by itself to improve returns at the company, which is suffering from lackluster profits at its Caesars Palace casino on the Las Vegas Strip as well as a challenging environment in the recovering Las Vegas market, analysts said.

The company also faces new competition on the East Coast. The $1 billion luxury Borgata casino — a project of MGM MIRAGE and Boyd Gaming Corp. — in addition to the expansion of gaming across the northeast presents a significant challenge for Park Place, which derives a big chunk of its cash flow from its three Atlantic City casinos, analysts said.

Park Place stock has slid more than 40 percent since Gallagher’s swift appointment to CEO upon the sudden death of Arthur Goldberg in October 2000.

By comparison, the shares of other major Las Vegas casino companies have appreciated significantly or remained fairly flat. The Standard & Poor’s 500 has fallen about 35 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen about 16 percent during the same period.

Last month, shares of Park Place tumbled after the company warned investors that weak results at its Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas — as well as the effect of an energy contract loss and recent storm damage in the South — would result in lower third quarter earnings.

Besides financial troubles, Park Place — known as the world’s largest gaming company in terms of revenues — is struggling under its own weight, observers said.

“There’s a real difficulty in merging similarly sized companies … that have quite different corporate cultures,” said Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno.

By contrast, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. has effectively absorbed much smaller companies that have more easily adopted the Harrah’s brand, he said.

Goldberg presided over the recent genesis of Park Place from its origin as four public companies. In 1998, Hilton Hotels Corp. spun off its gaming unit, which had previously acquired Bally Entertainment. The spinoff was rechristened as Park Place and simultaneously acquired Grand Casinos Inc. The company acquired Caesars World Inc. in 1999, including its flagship Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, arguably the most recognized casino brand in the world.

In response to shareholder concerns, Gallagher has repeatedly argued that the company’s relatively low share price is in part a result of the dilutive effect of the combined companies’ outstanding shares.

Investors have remained unimpressed. Even the Colosseum, a replica of the famed Roman landmark that will debut next year in front of Caesars Palace with a show by celebrated artist Celine Dion, has been called a big gamble by some company watchers.

Analysts have generally applauded the project as an upgrade that could boost the fortunes of Caesars Palace, which has lost some of its status and high-roller business to newer megaresorts in recent years. Still, construction of the theater has already disrupted traffic into the casino, significantly hurting profits.

The company also lost a hard-driving leader in Goldberg, whose gruff personality was offset by an aura of confidence and direction, Eadington said.

That direction appeared to falter as the company lost premium gamblers from Caesars Palace and then shelved plans to build a hotel tower at the property after Sept. 11 last year, he said. The company has also failed to market the Las Vegas Hilton as a premium brand, he added.

Gallagher, Hilton’s former executive vice president and general counsel, was considered somewhat of an unusual choice given his lack of operations experience. Yet he has a long track record in the gaming industry, serving as president of Merv Griffin’s hotel, casino and media conglomerate before jumping to Hilton in 1997.

Stephen Bollenbach, chairman of Park Place and chief executive of Hilton Hotels, has had a hand in the appointment of his former colleague as well as his sudden departure. Some saw Gallagher’s appointment as a power play by Hilton Hotels to exert more influence over Park Place. In addition to Bollenbach, Hilton Chairman Barron Hilton and Hilton board member A. Steven Crown also serve on Park Place’s board.

Hilton, which exited the gaming business when it spun off Park Place, isn’t trying to influence the casino empire, Bollenbach has said. There’s little crossover between the gaming and hotel industries, he has said.

Bollenbach gave Gallagher kudos for stabilizing the company during a difficult period.

“As a result of Tom’s stewardship, Park Place is financially strong and well-positioned to compete going forward,” Bollenbach said in a statement Tuesday. “We thank Tom for his dedication.”

Casino stocks were mixed this morning amid thin gains across broader market indexes. Park Place stock fell slightly in afternoon trading today, to about $7.70. The company was worth nearly $13 per share the day of Gallagher’s appointment.

By comparison, Harrah’s stock has climbed by more than 50 percent during the period and shares of Mandalay Resort Group have increased more than 20 percent. Shares of MGM MIRAGE have remained fairly flat.

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OBJECT: The best five card unique casino hand, out of seven cards, wins the pot.

1.Players must place an ante into the pot.

2.Each player is dealt two cards face-down (hole cards) and one card face-up (door card)

3.1st betting round

4.Each player is dealt one card face-up (4th street)

5.2nd betting round

6.Each player is dealt another card face-up (5th street)

7.3rd betting round

8.Each player is dealt another card face-up (6th street)

9.4th betting round

10.Each player is dealt a last card face-down (river)

11.Last betting round

12.Showdown (Every remaining player shows hand with bettor showing first)

Players may use any 5 of their 7 cards to make their best hand.

RULES OF SEVEN-CARD STUD

1. The first round of betting starts with a forced bet by the lowest upcard by suit. On subsequent betting rounds, the high hand on board initiates the action (a tie is broken by position, with the player who received cards first acting first).

2. The player with the forced bet has the option of opening for a full bet.

3. Increasing the amount wagered by the opening forced bet up to a full bet does not count as a raise, but merely as a completion of the bet. For example: In $15-$30 stud, the lowcard opens for $5. If the next player increases the bet to $15 (completes the bet), up to three raises are then allowed when using a three-raise limit.

4. In all fixed-limit Togel Hongkong games, when an open pair is showing on fourth street (second upcard), any player has the option of betting either the lower or the upper limit. For example: In a $5-$10 game, if you have a pair showing and are the high hand, you may bet either $5 or $10. If you bet $5, any player then has the option to call $5, raise $5, or raise $10. If a $10 raise is made, then all other raises must be in increments of $10. If the player high with the open pair on fourth street checks, then subsequent players have the same options that were given to the player who was high.

5. If your first or second holecard is accidentally turned up by the dealer, then your third card will be dealt down. If both holecards are dealt up, you have a dead hand and receive your ante back. If the first card dealt faceup would have been the lowcard, action starts with the first hand to that player’s left. That player may fold, open for the forced bet, or open for a full bet. (In tournament play, if a downcard is dealt faceup, a misdeal is called.)

6. If you are not present at the table when it is your turn to act on your hand, you forfeit your ante and your forced bet, if any. If you have not returned to the table in time to act, the hand will be killed when the betting reaches your seat.

7. If a hand is folded when there is no wager, that seat will continue to receive cards until the hand is killed as a result of a bet.

8. If you are all in for the ante and have the lowcard, the player to your left acts first. That player may fold, open for the forced bet, or open for a full bet.

9. If the wrong person is designated as low and that person bets, the action will be corrected to the true lowcard if the next player has not yet acted. The incorrect lowcard takes back the wager and the true lowcard must bet. If the next hand has acted after the incorrect lowcard wager, the wager stands, action continues from there, and the true lowcard has no obligations.

10. If you pick up your upcards without calling when facing a wager, this is a fold and your hand is dead. This act has no significance at the showdown because betting is over; the hand is live until discarded.

11. A card dealt off the table must play and it is treated as an exposed card.

12. In all games, the dealer announces the lowcard, the high hand, all raises, and all pairs. Dealers do not announce possible straights or flushes (except for specified low-stakes games).

13. If the dealer burns two cards for one round or fails to burn a card, the cards will be corrected, if at all possible, to their proper positions. If this should happen on a final downcard, and either a card intermingles with a player’s other holecards or a player looks at the card, the player must accept that card.

14. If the dealer burns and deals one or more cards before a round of betting has been completed, the card(s) must be eliminated from play. After the betting for that round is completed, an additional card for each remaining player still active in the hand is also eliminated from play (to later deal the same cards to the players who would have received them without the error). After that round of betting has concluded, the dealer burns a card and play resumes. The removed cards are held off to the side in the event the dealer runs out of cards. If the prematurely dealt card is the final downcard and has been looked at or intermingled with the player’s other holecards, the player must keep the card, and on sixth street betting may not bet or raise (because the player now has all seven cards).

15. If there are not enough cards left in the deck for all players, all the cards are dealt except the last card, which is mixed with the burncards (and any cards removed from the deck, as in the previous rule). The dealer then scrambles and cuts these cards, burns again, and delivers the remaining downcards, using the last card if necessary. If there are not as many cards as players remaining without a card, the dealer does not burn, so that each player can receive a fresh card. If the dealer determines that there will not be enough fresh cards for all of the remaining players, then the dealer announces to the table that a common card will be used. The dealer will burn a card and turn one card faceup in the center of the table as a common card that plays in everyone’s hand. The player who is now high using the common card initiates the action for the last round.

16. An all-in player should receive holecards dealt facedown, but if the final holecard to such a player is dealt faceup, the card must be kept, and the other players receive their normal card.

17. If the dealer turns the last card faceup to any player, the hand now high on the board using all the upcards will start the action. The following rules apply to the dealing of cards:

(a) If there are more than two players, all remaining players receive their last card facedown. A player whose last card is faceup has the option of declaring all-in (before betting action starts).

(b) If there are only two players remaining and the first player’s final downcard is dealt faceup, the second player’s final downcard will also be dealt faceup, and the betting proceeds as normal. In the event the first player’s final card is dealt facedown and the opponent’s final card is dealt faceup, the player with the faceup final card has the option of declaring all-in (before betting action starts).

18. A hand with more than seven cards is dead.A hand with less than seven cards at the showdown is dead, except any player missing a seventh card may have the hand ruled live. [See – Explanations,” discussion #4, for more information on this rule.]

19. A player who calls a bet even though beaten by an opponent’s upcards is not entitled to a refund. (The player is receiving information about an opponent’s hand that is not available for free.)

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