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Casinos statewide saw their September take from customers decline almost 6 percent to $863.9 million, the second straight monthly revenue drop. On the Strip, casinos saw gaming revenues fall almost 5.7 percent to $490.9 million in September. The revenue declines in September and August followed three straight months of gaming revenue increases.
The decision to televise — in nearly real time — every hand played at the final table of the World Series of Poker’s Main Event changes the way the viewing audience will follow the action. The move also ups the stakes for the nine players who seek the $8.71 million payday that goes with the gold championship bracelet.
Las Vegas’ oldest continuously operating casino is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Mobster Bugsy Siegel owned it for a year before handing it back to original owner J.K. Houssels in 1946 to build the Flamingo.
With technology changing and moving at an “accelerating” pace, Gov. Brian Sandoval said Friday he would reconstitute the long-dormant Gaming Policy Committee to advise state casino leaders and lawmakers on a variety of issues, including Internet poker.
Nov. 29 looms as another showdown date in the duel to control the off-Strip Hooters hotel.
Once the epicenter of Las Vegas glitz and glam, the Sahara was forced to close six months ago, but a remodeling plan approved Wednesday could breathe life into a hotel-casino that served celebrities and common folk alike for almost 60 years.
The founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video empire has upped the ante in a legal dispute over a $2 million casino debt with Strip casino developer Steve Wynn and the Wynn Las Vegas casino.
