Las Vegas-based Boyd will acquire Aristocrat’s Oasis 360 system to track customer play and reward players through the casino company’s B Connected loyalty program.
Richard N. Velotta
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Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
With sports betting spreading to new markets this year, the American Gaming Association is expanding the breadth and reach of its code of conduct for responsible gaming, a representative said Tuesday.
Las Vegas-based gaming technology provider Everi Holdings reported its second straight profitable quarter Tuesday, exceeding analysts’ expectations for revenue and hitting the forecast for earnings.
Longtime gaming executive Phil Satre has been named vice chairman of the Wynn Resorts board of directors and will become chairman next year, a move lauded by top shareholder and co-founder Elaine Wynn.
There’s plenty of expertise in Nevada to lead the way toward fundamental sports-betting policy but there aren’t many roadmaps showing how to get where states want to be. That is, until Anthony Cabot’s new book hit the bookshelves in late May.
Boulder City residents are fairly confident the city that built Hoover Dam will not become a ghost town when the Interstate 11 bypass opens this week.
A tentative agreement was reached late Thursday between Culinary Local 226 and SLS Las Vegas, one of three Strip properties that had been unsigned.
Reno-based regional casino operator Eldorado Resorts Inc. saw revenue improve by nearly 22 percent in its second quarter with record cash flow, the company reported Thursday.
A tentative agreement has been reached on a new five-year contract between the Culinary union and the Downtown Grand, representatives of Culinary Local 226said Thursday.
MGM Resorts International on Thursday reported a 41 percent decline in earnings for its second quarter a day after its stock price neared its 52-week low.
Las Vegas-based Scientific Games’ four core business divisions gained ground in the company’s second quarter, shrinking losses after the company’s 11th straight quarter of year-over-year revenue and adjusted cash flow growth.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. shares were among the pack of casino companies that fell Wednesday, even though revenue and earnings improved in the company’s secondquarter.
Red Rock Resorts rode the white-hot Las Vegas economy to healthy second-quarter results despite a major presence of construction workers in and around Palace Station and Palms.
Nevada gaming win continued its upward trend with a 4.2 percent increase to $933 million in June, the state Gaming Control Board reported Tuesday.
East Coast casino openings and increases from growing sports betting opportunities boosted London-based IGT in the second quarter, company officials reported Tuesday.