When it came time to help redesign the run-down Hacienda near Boulder City, Oregon-native Ally Estey decided to bring the feel of the northwest to the hotel-casino.
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ATLANTIC CITY — After 19 years working as a cook at Atlantic City’s Showboat Casino, Dave Rose is counting the weeks until he and about 2,000 fellow workers lose their jobs when the casino is shuttered at the end of the summer.
Ultimate Gaming, which operates Ultimate Poker.com, and the El Cortez have entered into a marketing partnership that makes Ultimate Poker the online poker room for the downtown casino.
To Michael Pergolini, there isn’t much difference between serving as the executive chef in a stylish Southern California restaurant or operating a venerable downtown Las Vegas hotel-casino. Both jobs revolve around how you treat the customer.
Isle of Capri Casinos may have answered questions of whether or not the regional casino operator was for sale.
ATLANTIC CITY — Atlantic City’s crumbling casino market disintegrated even further Saturday as the owners of the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City said they expect to shut down in mid-September.
HONG KONG — A former Macau business partner of Las Vegas Sands Corp. accused the casino operator of misappropriating trade secrets and is suing the company for at least $5 billion in profits that it says are owed via their joint ownership of copyright related to a casino license bid.
Nevada Gaming Control Board for the first time has punished a gaming licensee for also having an interest in a medical marijuana business.
State gaming regulators tentatively approved a planned interactive gaming system that could house online poker websites for multiple casinos, potentially increasing the player pool in Nevada.
Macau is facing threats to its growth from China’s slowing economy and greater foreign competition, escalating the need for the world’s largest gambling hub to diversify from its casino gaming roots.
New Jersey lawmakers say a venture capitalist wants to build a $4.6 billion casino in Jersey City, but the state would first need to allow casinos outside of Atlantic City.
International Game Technology is the most prominent gaming company with a “For Sale” sign planted in the front yard.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Applicants for the four upstate New York casino licenses being granted this year are promising more jobs and tax revenue if they are allowed to develop resorts.
The parent company of Atlantic City’s Showboat says that it would consider selling the property to another casino operator if it made a reasonable offer and could be licensed.
Dotty’s operator Nevada Restaurant Services, Inc. announced last week it was paying $6.75 million to acquire the River Palms in Laughlin from Atlantic City-based Tropicana Entertainment.