{"id":2396795,"date":"2026-04-30T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2396795"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:13:06","slug":"golden-entertainment-completes-transition-to-family-ownership-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/golden-entertainment-completes-transition-to-family-ownership-cdc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Entertainment completes transition to family ownership \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-136078 articleHeight\">\n<header class=\"article-header\" wp_automatic_readability=\"26.697575757576\">\n<p>\nThursday, April 30, 2026 6:02 PM<\/p>\n<div class=\"ahFull\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.4945337620579\">\n<div class=\"ahImage\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"align-right attribution\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>Photo:\u00a0<\/strong><span title=\"Golden Entertainment (courtesy)\">Golden Entertainment (courtesy)<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"text\" wp_automatic_readability=\"32.749574105622\">\n<div class=\"grid-x authorShare\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-4 grid-x align-middle share\" wp_automatic_readability=\"4.0697674418605\">\n<div class=\"ns-buttons ns-inline ns-no-print\" wp_automatic_readability=\"5.2325581395349\">\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"CDCart\" wp_automatic_readability=\"27\">\n<p>Golden Entertainment has successfully completed its conversion to a private family-owned compay following the close of its transaction Thursday with Chairman and CEO Blake Sartini and VICI Properties Inc. Golden Entertainment shareholders receiving a $2.75 cash dividend and 0.902 shares of VICI stock per share of Golden stock.<\/p>\n<p>In connection with the transaction, VICI Properties acquired the real estate assets associated with seven of Golden Entertainment\u2019s casino resorts and entered into a triple-net master lease with entities controlled by Sartini. Golden Entertainment will continue to operate its full casino and tavern portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReturning to private family ownership means we can focus on running our operations without the distractions of being publicly traded,\u201d Sartini said.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Entertainment operates a diversified entertainment platform of gaming and hospitality assets. The company operates eight casinos and 73 gaming taverns in Nevada featuring approximately 5,500 slots, 80 table games and 6,000 hotel rooms.<\/p>\n<p><input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"136078\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <!-- end article section --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"box-standout author-tagline\">\n<div class=\"grid-x\">\n<div class=\"cell shrink\">\n<div class=\"authorIm authorIm-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Buck-Wargo-Author-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Buck Wargo\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"cell auto\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.875\">\n<div class=\"author-tagline-text\" wp_automatic_readability=\"37\">\n<p><strong>Buck Wargo<\/strong> brings decades of business and gambling industry journalism experience to CDC Gaming from his home in Las Vegas. If it\u2019s happening in Nevada, he\u2019s got his finger on it. A former journalist with the <em data-start=\"319\" data-end=\"338\">Los Angeles Times<\/em> and <em data-start=\"343\" data-end=\"358\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Las Vegas Sun<\/em>, Buck covers gaming, development and real estate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<p> <!-- end article footer --><br \/>\n <!-- end article --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t <!-- end #main --><\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!-- end #inner-content --><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source cdcgaming.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 30, 2026 6:02 PM Photo:\u00a0Golden Entertainment (courtesy) Email, LinkedIn, and more Golden Entertainment has successfully completed its conversion to a private family-owned compay following the close of its transaction Thursday with Chairman and CEO Blake Sartini and VICI Properties Inc. Golden Entertainment shareholders receiving a $2.75 cash dividend and 0.902 shares of VICI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2396796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[314107],"class_list":["post-2396795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-golden-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Golden-Entertainment-completes-transition-to-family-ownership-\u2013-CDC-Gaming.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396797,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396795\/revisions\/2396797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}