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Gary M. Green
Gary Green newspaper
Born20th century
Hamlet, North Carolina, USA
Occupations
  • Television host
  • gaming consultant
  • writer
Known forThe Trump Organization, Casino Rescue TV show
Notable work"Osceola's Revenge", Marketing Donald Trump, Gambling Man

Gary M. Green (born 20th century) is a musician, author, television host, gaming consultant and entrepreneur.[1][2][3]

He was vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization[3][4] and appeared on the television reality game show The Apprentice.[5] He was also on the 2004 television special New Year's Eve with Carson Daly.[5] Green was executive vice president of Synergy Gaming, and the public face of the company.[4] He was the spokesman for four years, until 2017 for Ortiz Gaming.[6]

In 2016 it was announced that he would host a television series called "Casino Rescue". [7]

Career

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Music

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Gary Green Charlotte NC

Green recorded three folk-music albums from 1977 to 1982 with Folkways Records, which worked with other folk artists including Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.[3][8][9] Folkways was later acquired by the Smithsonian Institution as part of the "Smithsonian Folkways" exhibition.[8]

Green also composed music for the crime drama film Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981).[5] The film, starring Paul Newman and Ed Asner, is about life in New York City's South Bronx from the point of view of a police officer.

Media

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In the 1970s, Green was a journalist for The Gaston Gazette, a newspaper in Gastonia, North Carolina, which was later purchased by Halifax Media Group.[3][10] He earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing.[9]

In 2010, he wrote Marketing Donald Trump, a guide explaining how Green marketed Trump which can be applied to other marketing applications. In 2012, he wrote Gambling Man, which details Green's life as a modern-day casino boss through personal anecdotes.[3][4][11]

Other activities

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In the early 1990s, Green purchased part of a Russian circus. He established it as a Euro Circus attraction at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[12][13] After he sold the circus, he joined Smith-Gardner, a Florida catalog software company. At Smith-Gardner, Green aided in development of software to take orders online when the company changed their focus from telephone and mail orders.[12]

Casinos

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Gary Green and Donald Trump

By 1979, Green was working with casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[14][15][16] He patented a casino-management system based on customer relationships.[17]

He was vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization and the Trump 29 Casino near Palm Springs, California.[2][3][4]

Green was named president of Absentee Shawnee Gaming Enterprises in July 2004.[2][14] He was general manager of the Thunderbird Wild Wild West Casino in Norman, Oklahoma[16] and oversaw construction of another casino in Oklahoma City.[18]

In 2005, Green co-founded Las Vegas-based casino management and development company Southern Dutch Gaming with Frank Haas,[2][19] who he worked with at Trump 29.[18]

Green was general manager of Glacier Peaks Casino in Browning, Montana, in 2006,[15][20][21][22] and was hired by the Ottawa Tribe to oversee their new Four Winds Casino that same year[1] and consulted for an Ottawa casino in Miami, Florida.[16]

Synergy Gaming hired Green in 2009 as its executive vice president and official public face of the company.[4] He purchased the former Gold Mine Casino in 2011.[3] Green served for four years as spokesman[23][24] and senior consultant to the president for Ortiz Gaming.[6][25]

Discography

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  • Gary Green, Vol. 1: These Six Strings (1977)
  • Gary Green, Vol. 2: Allegory (1977)
  • Gary Green, Vol. 3: Still at Large (1982)

Bibliography

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  • Marketing Donald Trump (2010, Penny Arcades)
  • Gambling Man (2012, Penny Arcades)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Oklahoma Tribe Bets on Casino". Casino City Times. January 31, 2006.
  2. ^ a b c d Connor, Matt (September 2005). "Magic Man". Casino Journal. 18 (9).
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Former Trump Hotels Exec Acquires Black Hawk's Gold Mine Casino". Denver Business Journal. February 7, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Slot Machine Vendor Hires Casino Personality Gary Green". Indian Gaming. February 2009.
  5. ^ a b c "Gary Green". Internet Movie Database.
  6. ^ a b "Entertainment Guaranteed". Bingo Life Magazine. Spring 2015.
  7. ^ "New casino makeover show to be hosted by industry veteran Gary Green". September 22, 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Gary Green". Smithsonian Folkways. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  9. ^ a b "Robert De Niro Could be the Gambling Man". Bonus Republic. January 4, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  10. ^ Green, Gary (November 2, 1975). "Two Found Hacked to Death with an Ax". The Gaston Gazette.
  11. ^ Green, Gary (September 2012). Gambling Man. Penny Arcades. ISBN 978-0-615-26697-8.
  12. ^ a b Ogden, Karen (January 8, 2007). "Casino Manager Followed Colorful Path to Browning". Great Falls Tribune.
  13. ^ "Circus of Russians Will Return in 1996". The Sun News. September 16, 1995.
  14. ^ a b Conner, Matt (March 2005). "The Showman". Indian Gaming Business.
  15. ^ a b McNee, Jack (November 3, 2006). "Glacier Peaks Casino Is a Success in Rural Montana". Indian Country Today.
  16. ^ a b c Love, Chad (May 2006). "Games of Chance". Oklahoma Today.
  17. ^ "Technology Guru Patents Casino Management System". Yahoo! Finance.
  18. ^ a b "Casino Entrepreneur Rises in Ranks". Casino City Times. September 27, 2004.
  19. ^ Hodl, James J. (Winter 2006). "Change at the Table". Indian Gaming Business.
  20. ^ Snyder, Christine (December 2006). "Montana's First Vegas-Style Casino". Native American Casino.
  21. ^ Alberson, Kristi. "Taking a Gamble on Browning". Daily Inter Lake.
  22. ^ Taucer, Vic (November 2006). "Montana Casino Operations: A New Growth Area for Table Games". North American Casino.
  23. ^ Press release (October 20, 2014). "Ortiz Gaming Introduced Cabinet Innovations at G2E". Innovate Gaming. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  24. ^ "Amazing 'O'". Global Gaming Business Magazine. October 24, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  25. ^ Press release (March 25, 2015). "Ortiz Gaming to Raise Expectation at the National Indian Gaming Association Tradeshow and Conference in San Diego". Soloazar International. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
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