Members of the Nevada Gaming Commission explain why they’re not weighing in on the Culinary Union’s frustration over its labor disputes with Station Casinos.
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The Tropicana will stay Tropicana for now but could adopt a Bally’s brand, and the existing Bally’s property will officially take on the Horseshoe Las Vegas name on Thursday.
Meetings planners, resorts, developers, government leaders and regulators need to have a unified strategy to keep gaming revenue growing.
When Robert Saucier faced the Gaming Commission last month, he was battling a unanimous recommendation from the Gaming Control Board that would ban him from gaming.
Resorts wish they could have more visitors like Cincinnati resident Tony Iori, who hopes Las Vegas will be like it has been so that he can travel here as often as he has.
The Oakland A’s — the new parent team of the Las Vegas Aviators — will play two games in Tokyo and wear a special patch on the sleeves of their uniforms that says, “MGM Resorts Japan.”
The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement recently sponsored a panel on whether the criminal element could infiltrate the gamingindustry’s new toy: nationwide sports wagering.
It wasn’t until April that Southern Nevada visitors finally ended a 10-month streak in which total visitation volume was less than it was a year earlier.
With all the spectacular resorts and hotels Southern Nevada has to offer, it’s easy for visitors to forget that Las Vegas lies in the middle of some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
Anyone who has studied the numbers regularly knows that the gaming win statistics for Southern Nevada’s geographic regions are extremely volatile. One month, an area may be up by double-digit percentages. The next, it could be down by double-digit percentages. Then, maybe the next month, it levels off, only to climb high, then drop low, just like the Desperado coaster at Primm, a personal favorite.
Steve Wynn has talked in glowing terms about his company’s plans to build a resort complex along the Mystic River in the Boston-area town of Everett.
Count the analysts at Fitch Ratings Service as predicting 2016 to be a stable environment for most U.S. gaming operators.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson remains Macau’s most optimistic and vocal cheerleader.
CNBC host and financial gossip monger Jim Cramer set the gaming investment community abuzz last week. Cramer told his “Mad Money” audience there was “speculation” that Wynn Resorts Ltd. “might merge” with MGM Resorts International. But the notion of a MGM-Wynn merger is ludicrous.
California’s latest effort to legalize online poker would sideline PokerStars, shut out the racetrack industry, and offer a twist that makes traditional casinos and card rooms part of the game.
