Despite what he describes as a “soft” market, Soo Kim is unapologetically bullish about casino gaming. So much so, in fact, that the founder and managing partner of New York-based hedge fund Standard General LP pushed for — and finally got — a multibillion-dollar buyout of Bally’s Corp., the publicly traded casino and resort operator where Kim serves as chairman of the board.

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“We’ve been nothing but positive and optimistic and forward leaning about the prospects for Bally’s…We’ve been nothing but straight with the markets telling them what we think is gonna happen, and yet there was doubt about every step,” Kim said Friday during an exclusive interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.