Gambling mogul Steve Wynn spent the last week traipsing around his soon-to-open $4.2bn casino in Macau with his wife Angela and two German Shepherd dogs, inspecting everything from the fancy rooms to the expensive artworks and the restaurants named for him and his spouse.
The American billionaire jokes there are “30,000 things” that keep him up at night before the Wynn Palace opens on Monday at the auspicious time of 8pm, but says that “it takes the public in the building to get it really shaped up”.
By building the most expensive casino in Macau, Mr Wynn is betting he can ride out a downturn that has seen revenue slump in the only part of China where such gambling is legal.