Officials with high-flying Las Vegas Sands Corp. raved about last year's financial results and were giddy about potential expansion in Asia during an annual shareholder meeting. Sands is on track to ...
4 June 2014
By Michelle Rindels, Associated Press
New Jersey is bolstering its legal arguments as it tries to get the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its effort to overturn a ban on legalized sports betting in all but four states. In a filing submitted Tuesday, the state says the federal law restricting sports betting to...
3 June 2014
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
The dice are no longer rolling and the slots aren’t spinning at Harrah’s Casino in Tunica. The casino lights went out for good a little after midnight Sunday, meaning...
2 June 2014
WREG-TV
“The market is huge,” says Christopher LaPorte, owner of Insert Coins, a video arcade in downtown Las Vegas. This would be a new way to invigorate the gaming industry. A legislative study committee recommended …
2 June 2014
By Cy Ryan
Gov. Brian Sandoval isn’t sold on allowing Nevada to become the first state to permit betting on the presidential and other federal elections. “As I think through it, unless...
30 May 2014
By Cy Ryan
A Florida company bought the former Atlantic Club Casino Hotel on Thursday, and plans to operate it as a nongambling facility. It is the second acquisition this year of ...
29 May 2014
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
A recently released report on the nation’s gaming industry from accounting and business consulting firm Rubin Brown shows commercial and tribal casinos generated a record $66.3 billion in revenues in 2013, up 1.6 percent from the...
29 May 2014
Casino Journal
For those looking to try their luck at the tables just like their favorite poker professionals, there is Bravo Poker. The app helps users track and find …
29 May 2014
By Brian Nordli
A statistical snapshot of Las Vegas visitors finds a younger crowd with fewer gamblers spending more money on food and drink than five years ago. A visitor profile for 2013 found that almost four of five visitors were ...
28 May 2014
Associated Press
Nevada casinos won $852 million in April, essentially flat from the same month a year ago Overall, gaming revenue statewide was down...
28 May 2014
By Cy Ryan
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27519748
27 May 2014
BBC
A city of Las Vegas committee will consider a new booze rule allowing people to drink only from plastic cups in a 32-block area around Fremont Street downtown. The proposed amendment to city ordinances is meant to ...
27 May 2014
By Joe Schoenmann
http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/gambling-snitch-daniel-tzvetkoff-likely-to-avoid-jail/story-fnii5v6w-1226933793429
27 May 2014
news.com.au
A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Michigan can't block the opening of an American Indian casino because the state's legal challenge is barred by tribal sovereign immunity. In a 5-4 decision, the high court said the state could not...
27 May 2014
Associated Press
Tired of negative stereotypes and high taxes, one of gaming’s most prominent trade associations is going on the offensive. The American Gaming Association is launching...
27 May 2014
By Amber Phillips
