Gaming

Bitcoin poker site operator gets probation

Professional poker player Bryan Micon.

The Las Vegas man who pleaded guilty to running an illegal online gambling website that used Bitcoin was sentenced today to a maximum of two years’ probation. Bryan Micon agreed in District Court to also ...

3 November 2015
By J.D. Morris

Have $40M? Station Casinos has some land it would like to sell to you

A view of vacant land is shown south of the South Point and a time-share complex in Henderson Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. About 56 acres of the land is being offered for sale by Station Casinos.

Station Casinos wants to sell a large chunk of empty land it owns on Las Vegas Boulevard in the far south end of the valley, according to a document marketing the site to ...

3 November 2015
By J.D. Morris

UNLV students invent games that might one day hit casinos

UNLV Harrah Hotel College Center for Gaming Innovation student Taylor Ross, center, and UNLV Center for Gaming Innovation Director Mark Yoseloff play 40 Times Double Down blackjack, a game invented by Ross.

At UNLV’s Center for Gaming Innovation, students double as inventors — and their creations can end up on local casino floors. The center offers a class on subjects such as the history of gaming innovation, the mathematics of gambling and intellectual property law. Its main focus, however, is the projects students create: casino games that often work their way through the patent process and may eventually appear before gamblers. Not every game created in the class is patented, but the ones that are receive ...

1 November 2015
By J.D. Morris

Harry Reid says daily fantasy sports can’t police itself

FanDuel employees are shown in the fantasy sports company's offices Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, in New York.

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid is calling daily fantasy sports sites "unregulated, illegal gambling" and says in a statement that self-regulation the industry desires won't be enough. Reid was responding Friday to an open letter released a day earlier from FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles, who, in a letter addressed to ...

30 October 2015
By Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press

Nevada gaming revenue up 1.5 percent in September

In this 2010 photo, a baccarat game is shown in the high-limit room at Hard Rock Hotel.

Led by a strong month in the state’s major casino markets, Nevada gaming revenue rose 1.5 percent in September, the state reported today. The Gaming Control Board said ...

29 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

Offshore game of online betting: How bookmaking site hides in plain sight

The Holiday Beach Resort and Casino, where the bookmaking site Pinnacle Sports first established its headquarters in Willemstad, on the Caribbean island nation of Curacao, Aug. 18, 2015. Pinnacle Sports is a case study in how bookmaking sites, illegal in the United States, manage to operate on American soil.

In a vintage industrial building with a Romanesque arch, lights flash on powerful computers in row after row of metal cabinets and cages. This is one small corner of the Internet, unremarkable except for the confluence of two facts: Sports betting is largely illegal in the United States. And this ...

28 October 2015
By James Glanz, Agustín Armendariz and Walt Bogdanich, New York Times News Service

Plaza to display, sell sports memorabilia from the closed Las Vegas Club

An exterior view of Las Vegas Club during the casino's final night Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in downtown Las Vegas. The casino closed its doors at midnight.

The Plaza plans to open a special gallery next week filled with various sports-related items that previously decorated the shuttered Las Vegas Club. The gallery will make its public debut Tuesday night and will include hundreds of items available for purchase, the Plaza announced today. A spokeswoman for the Plaza said the gallery will be located ...

27 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

DraftKings logo removed from World Series of Poker set

Len Don Diego, marketing manager for content at DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, works Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at his station at the company's offices in Boston.

World Series of Poker watchers won't be seeing the logo for daily fantasy sports site DraftKings when the tournament returns to Las Vegas starting Nov. 8. A spokesman for the annual poker contest ...

27 October 2015
Associated Press

Macau opens Hollywood-themed casino resort amid slowdown

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese attend a launch ceremony for the Studio City project Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, in Macau.

China's world-beating gambling hub is getting a taste of Hollywood glamor as its newest casino resort makes its debut on Tuesday with a glitzy grand opening that masks turmoil behind ...

27 October 2015
By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press

Sandoval appoints retired judge to fill Mulroy’s seat on Gaming Commission

U.S. District Judge Philip Pro moderates his Law and Crime class Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, during the Sun Youth Forum at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Gov. Brian Sandoval has named a retired federal judge to fill a recently vacated seat on the Nevada Gaming Commission. Sandoval’s office said he has appointed Philip Pro, a former U.S. District Court judge, to the post that ...

26 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

Wynn’s tune has changed on Macau

In this Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, photo, Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn delivers the keynote address at Colliers International Annual Seminar at the Boston Convention Center in Boston.

While discussing his company’s business in Macau this month, Steve Wynn used words such as “preposterous,” “outrageous” and “ridiculous” to describe his feelings about the Chinese gambling city, and more specifically, his uncertainty about the number of table games the government would permit in his new casino. It was a far cry from ...

26 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

Penn National reports 14.5 percent revenue growth, will restate financials

A view of the M Resort in Henderson.

Penn National Gaming, the casino company that runs the Tropicana and the M Resort in Henderson, reported ...

23 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

Boyd revenue up 3.3 percent; CEO indicates no interest in fantasy sports

An exterior view of the Fremont casino in downtown Las Vegas, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013.

Boyd Gaming, the casino company whose Las Vegas-area properties include Sam’s Town, the Orleans and the California, reported ...

23 October 2015
By J.D. Morris

Caesars Palace getting $75 million update despite bankruptcy

A rendering by KNA Design of a king guest room in the renovated Julius Tower at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip is getting a $75 million upgrade for its 50th birthday despite facing a complicated bankruptcy reorganization and millions of dollars in fines. Parent company Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced Friday that it's overhauling the hotel's original Roman Tower ...

23 October 2015
By Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press

Man who brought fake chips to poker tournament gets prison

In this June 26, 2013, photo, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is seen in Atlantic City, N.J., with the nearby Water Club reflected in its gold glass facade.

A poker player is going to prison for bringing millions of dollars in counterfeit chips to a tournament and then breaking the plumbing when he flushed them down a toilet to hide the evidence. A judge on Thursday sentenced Christian Lusardi to five years in prison. Lusardi also must pay ...

22 October 2015
Associated Press
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