{"id":219647,"date":"2016-01-28T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=219647"},"modified":"2016-01-28T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:00:21","slug":"first-application-in-for-junket-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/first-application-in-for-junket-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"First application in for junket ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Casino Commission has received its first application for junket operations for the Saipan casino, according to executive director Edward C Deleon Guerrero.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero said the application came \u201cfrom a local company.\u201d \u201cWe anticipate to receive more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two more separate applicants have expressed interest but have not paid the necessary fees yet.<\/p>\n<p>The commission is expecting to receive applications from mainland China and working to translate their applications to Chinese, according to Guerrero.<\/p>\n<p>These junket operators are expected to bring high rollers to gamble at the Saipan casino. <\/p>\n<p>Applications for junket license have been finalized and released to Best Sunshine International, Ltd., the owners of the Saipan casino, and other parties, sometime last December.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier interview, Guerrero said unlike in Macau gaming\u2014where junket operators \u201ctake over\u201d casino VIP rooms\u2014junket operators on island would be barred from doing that. \u201cThe junket operator cannot take over a VIP room,\u201d he said, \u201cIt would have to be Best Sunshine and Best Sunshine\u2019s approved and licensed dealers and pit boss that are operating the casino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not allow any outside entity to run the casino, or the VIP room, other than the licensee,\u201d added Guerrero. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Casino Commission has received its first application for junket operations for the Saipan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1707,256,529,4139],"class_list":["post-219647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-best-sunshine-international","tag-casino","tag-macau","tag-vip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}