Recent gains in slot play for Ocean Casino Atlantic City. In July, Ocean’s total revenue went up 23.1% year-over-year, despite operating at a limited capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions. Much of that growth came because of a 10.2% increase in slot revenue in the same comparison. Ocean was second in slot revenue that month among all Atlantic. From earlier in 2019 this summary. 2019, the latest monthly gross gaming revenue report available at the time of this writing, the overall payout return statistics for all slot machines at each of the nine casinos in Atlantic City are. Bally’s Atlantic City: 91.1%. Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa: 92.0%. Caesars Atlantic City: 91.4%. Golden Nugget Atlantic City: 90.8%.

Full Slot List

Check out the current slot machines Ocean Casino Resort has to offer in Atlantic City!
Slot list

All Aboard™

All Aboard™, Konami Gaming, Inc.’s new premium linked progressive series, features two base games, “Dynamite Dash” and “Piggy Pennies.” In these games, players ride the rails for a symbol-driven linked progressive jackpot plus a boxcar full of credit prizes with Stay & Spin credit-collect bonus action!

The Vault™

Open up The Vault™ at Ocean Casino Resort! Enjoy the Diamond Rush bonus feature that immediately grabs the attention of all players at the bank, prompting them for a new adrenaline-pumping rate play. Steal diamonds from other players at the bank with a chance to win big in the Diamond Heist.

Fortune Coin™ – Boost

Fortune Coin™ – Boost is played on a 3×5 reel interface with stacked symbols, 243 ways to win, and a 75-credit cost to cover. It also features all-new boost coins, which increase credit awards and can enhance the free games bonus by removing up to three of the lowest-paying major symbols, or enhance the Progressive Pick Bonus by increasing progressive amounts

Dancing Drums Explosion

The dazzling imagery of Asian game theme Dancing Drums®, is restored with a gold explosion! This new slot showcases the player-favorite Fu Babies Bonus®, that continues to award the thrilling Fu Babies® jackpots and a Free Spins Bonus with an anticipative re-trigger feature. Dancing Drums Explosion also introduces players to a new Fu Babies Gold Bonus, which awards larger jackpots and a Gold Free Spins Bonus with reel expansions!

Fu Nan Fu Nu

Fu Nan Fu Nu™ features traditional Chinese art and sounds that draw players into the game’s symbols of luck and fortune. Featuring “Fu Nan” (Lucky Boy) and “Fu Nu” (Lucky Girl) this game pays from left to right and uses the Power XStream® pay evaluation in a 3×5 reel configuration in the base game for 243 ways to win.

Ultra Hot Mega Link™

The success of red-hot Ultimate Fire Link® has ignited a new series - Ultra Hot Mega Link™, which stars a thrilling new element during the fiery, player-favorite lock and spin feature that is guaranteed to heat things up. If one or more Ultra Hot Fireball symbols land on the reels during the fired-up Ultra Hot Mega Link Feature, it will add credits, or even a Mini Jackpot, to up to five surrounding locked Fireballs, ultimately exploding the size of the feature win!

James Bond - Diamonds Are Forever

Search for diamonds on the reels for jackpots playing James Bond - Diamonds Are Forever! This action-packed stepper game features scenes from the iconic movie and a thrilling Wheel Bonus! The Wheel Bonus can award credit prizes, Diamond jackpots, the Q Bonus which grants players free spins with added Diamond symbols, or the Shaken, Not Stirred Bonus where a Martini shaker fills glasses, serving up a Diamond jackpot!

Game of Thrones

We’ve captured all the drama, spectacle and rich detail of the Emmy® award-winning Game of Thrones™ and transformed it into an unforgettable gaming experience. With terrifying dragons, epic battles, stirring music and characters both revered and reviled, players will be engrossed in the action of this four-level progressive game. It was awarded ‘Best Slot Product’ in the 15th Annual Gaming & Technology Awards in 2015 and continues to hold its position atop the throne of the slots world.

Monopoly Money

Take a trip around the Monopoly wheel with Mr. Monopoly like never before! The nostalgic board game brings the casino alive with iconic artwork and familiar themes. Get ready to pass Go! and collect on fun and excitement, give Monopoly Money a spin today!

Rakin' Bacon

Rakin’ Bacon is a fantasy Pig-themed game that features a Golden Pig in a Gold coin filled room.

River Dragons

Watch out for low-flying (and swimming) dragons! River Dragons is an elegant, bright, Asian dragon-themed game that features AGS’ new Reel Surge feature.

Temple of Fire

Wilds spread like fire across the reels. This game features a flaming Aztec theme with an innovative feature that can award many wilds at once, and three different free games options with various volatilities

The Lord of the Rings Rule Them All

Take an epic adventure through Middle-earth and join the ultimate battle between good and evil playing The Lord of the Rings™ – Rule Them All™! Based on the epic cinematic trilogy, this game includes riveting game features starring the iconic characters and is showcased on the new TwinStar J43™ with iReels cabinet. This engaging cabinet pairs a dramatic 43-inch, 4K UHD display with a reel mechanism featuring a transmissive LCD panel that allows video to be displayed over the reels for added dramatic effect. The Lord of the Rings – Rule Them All has two bet levels – the Ring Level and the Eye of Sauron Level.

Atlantic City is known for its gambling, but the city’s casino industry has seen its fair share of failures.

The list of failed casinos is extensive and includes Trump Plaza, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Marina, Showboat, Atlantic Club, Sands, Claridge and the original Golden Nugget.

But when it comes to botched casinos, one is in a class of its own: Ocean Casino Resort (nee Ocean Resort Casino, nee TEN, nee Revel).

Opened in 2012, the casino was the most recent addition to the AC casino market. However, that hasn’t helped.

Ocean Casino Resort already had been through two bankruptcies, one closure, a state bailout, and five owners since it was first conceived roughly 10 years ago.

According to a recent AP report, the casino’s latest owners, Luxor Capital Group, believe it is ready to turn the property’s fortunes around. That would mean doing something no one else has been able to do: Make Revel/TEN/Ocean Resort Casino/Casino Resort profitable.

Luxor’s interim CEO Eric Matejevich told the AP that $50 million of the $70 million Luxor invested in the property during the takeover was used to pay down debt.

Matejevich believes that a greatly improved balance sheet is the secret sauce that will guide the casino to profitability this month.

From there, Luxor plans to begin reinvesting in the property.

What’s Luxor planning?

Ocean Casino has plans to add 500 hotel rooms and 200 slot machines.

That sounds good, but slot machine and hotel room inventory don’t appear to be a problem.

Ocean had an occupancy rate of 86.8% in the third quarter of 2018 (AC’s busy season). The industry average was 88.2%. Occupancy fell to 67% in the fourth quarter of 2018, which was, once again, below the industry average of 72%.

The casino also boasts nearly 2,000 slot machines on its gaming floor. That’s on par with the bigger casinos in the market such as Harrah’s, Hard Rock and Caesars. Yet, Ocean ranks near the bottom when it comes to gambling revenue.

That almost certainly equates to a lot of unoccupied machines.

According to the AP, Luxor also plans to upgrade the property’s dining and entertainment options.

The property still lacks AC casino staples such as a buffet or the opening of a long-planned, but yet-to-materialize Starbucks in the lobby.

These changes would go a long way in addressing some of the problems that have plagued the property’s prior business models. Namely that the $2.4 billion high-end property is the wrong type of casino for the AC market.

What else should Luxor do?

Unfortunately, none of Luxor’s plans address the underlying problem with Ocean Casino: brand recognition.

The biggest hurdle Ocean needs to overcome is its reputation and history. The calamity that was Revel (and the confusing Glenn Straub era) is still fresh in everyone’s mind.

Until Ocean Casino sheds the moniker of “the former Revel,” people are going to have negative memories and feelings toward the property. And for all the investment that’s been done, Ocean still looks and feels like Revel.

On top of that, Ocean Casino Resort is a mammoth property with a lot of overhead.

It doesn’t have time to build its brand over a period of five years. Without a strong, trusted brand, or the extensive database of its competitors, Ocean can open a buffet, and add rooms and slot machines until it’s blue in the face, but it won’t be the quick fix it’s hoping for.

Until Ocean reduces its brand deficit, it’s going to have issues gaining market share in Atlantic City.

To accomplish that, Ocean will need to get creative (beyond upping the number of emails it sends to former customers) and start pinpointing and leveraging areas where its competitors are weak.

Missed opportunity

The property already squandered a golden opportunity to leverage its best-in-market retail sportsbook.

“No one is going to have anything like it on the East Coast or in Atlantic City for a while,” Division of Gaming Enforcement Director David Rebucktold Play NJ in August.

“They have an opportunity there. They will have the best sports betting facility (for a short period of time). So, take advantage of it and get people in your property.”

Not doing enough online

The only casinos Ocean is competitive with (in terms of land-based revenue) are Resorts and Golden Nugget. Both are much smaller in scale than Ocean Casino, and both possess something Ocean doesn’t: A strong NJ online casino presence.

In fact, it’s the online portion of their businesses that keeps these properties afloat. As Play NJ opined earlier this year, “Golden Nugget generates roughly one-third of all revenue from online gambling. It’s no stretch to say that Golden Nugget AC might not exist without Golden Nugget online casino.”

Ocean’s online gambling offerings have failed to gain any traction. And like its land-based casino, its online struggles stem from branding.

Soon after it opened its doors in June 2018, Ocean launched an eponymously branded online casino site. That site failed to make a splash in a sea of big names.

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The good news is there’s a possibility of a new online gaming partnership with Wynn Resorts. Adding a second, well-known brand to its online offerings would be a step in the right direction.