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New Orleans readies smoking ban, but it won’t happen here

Caesars Entertainment Corp. can’t seem to catch a break. Next month, New Orleans will ban smoking in most public venues within Orleans Parish, including bars, hotels, sports stadiums and restaurants (where the activity has been curtailed since 2007).

Crumbled buildings, cannons symbolize current status of Macau

In Macau, there are spectacular images of the city’s downtown Peninsula skyline from the Ruins of St. Paul. Above the church site is Mount Fortress, built by Jesuits to protect the Portuguese colony. The crumbled buildings and cannons serve as a metaphor for the current state of the Chinese gaming enclave.

Once ignored, Multimedia Games now may see other suitors

Four years ago, Multimedia Games was all but kaput. Six months later, the company changed direction and last week, Las Vegas-based Global Cash Access agreed to pay $1.2 billion for Multimedia Games.

Strip land values react to deal for Frontier site

James Packer, CEO of Melbourne-based Crown Resorts Ltd., is forming a company with ex-Wynn Las Vegas President Andrew Pascal and investment firm Oaktree Capital Management to construct a hotel-casino on the 35-acre site where the New Frontier once was.

Several gaming companies expected to have a good year

With a new year comes new prognostications by Wall Street on which gaming companies will provide investors the best return in 2014.

Confidence in MGM Resorts future climbing

Clearly, MGM Resorts International’s planned $2.5 billion development on Macau’s Cotai Strip has Wall Street excited.

Professor was valued, respected in gaming industry

Bill Eadington never built a billion-dollar Strip resort. He never managed a riverboat casino or a gambling hall of any size. Eadington never created a new table game. He never developed an innovative slot machine.

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