Blake Sartini, has given-up his position on the Station Casinos Inc. board of directors in order to spend more of his time to his other business interests. He owns a local pub in the area. The filing was made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Blake Sartini, who was also a Station Casinos executive. He is also the brother-in-law of both the chief executive, Frank Fertitta III, and President Lorenzo Fertitta. Sartini has served on the Station's board since May 1993. It is now being reported that Sartini left Station to create Golden Gaming Inc. Golden is a private company that bought the local PT's pub chain in back in 2002.

At press time, Sartini has not released any comment. Additionally, representatives from Station Casinos also have no comment. It is not speculated who might replace Sartini either.

Sartini's Golden Gaming is in the process of expanding its PT's pubs chain in the Las Vegas Valley. The company is also creating another pub chain in Northern Nevada. The new locations are said to include upscale pubs by the name of PT's Gold in Las Vegas and the name Sierra Gold in Northern Nevada.