Wynn officials estimated that 5,000 people were still standing in line at noon, two hours after the resort opened. “I’m used to seeing half-empty casinos, so this is really great,” Satre said, referring to operations he has overseen in his lengthy industry career. It was the crowd, big and ready to play, that was “old-time.” There’s nothing old about the slot technology that dazzled players on opening day of the company’s entry into New England. “It’s an old-time gambling joint,” the chairman of Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s board of directors said of the scene on the casino floor, which is larger than those of Wynn and Encore in Las Vegas combined. Phil Satre was beaming Sunday afternoon as visitors jammed Encore Boston Harbor, because it reminded him of a different era. Bill and Cindy Pierce of Revere, Mass., have lunch on the South Lawn on opening day of the $2.6 billion Encore Boston Harbor in Everett, Mass.
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