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Derek Rose

Chips are down as Star posts huge loss, cashes in jobs

Star Entertainment wrote down the value of The Star Sydney by $337 million. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Hundreds of head office jobs will be culled at Star Entertainment as it tries to weather a significant short-term cash crunch after posting a loss of almost $2 billion.

Star posted a $1.7 billion loss after writing down the value of its three casinos by a total of $1.44 billion and has tapped its corporate lenders for another $200 million.

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