Gaming

Venetian's new poker room offers more space, new deals

Amid players nervously clicking their chips and hoping for the cards to fall their way, the Venetian is distinguishing its new poker space as the one with the most elbow room.

30 September 2012
By Ron Sylvester

This week’s stock performers: The best and the worst locally

The Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2012.

Even as the broader stock market fell this week, most big Las Vegas casino and gaming supply company stocks rose. The biggest gainer locally was Bally Technologies Inc.

28 September 2012
By Steve Green

Bankruptcy judge says Lynyrd Skynyrd restaurant to stay closed

The Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ & Beer grand opening in the Excalibur on Dec. 8, 2011.

The Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ and Beer and American Burger Works restaurants at the Excalibur hotel-casino in Las Vegas will remain closed after a court hearing Friday.

28 September 2012
By Steve Green

The suspense may kill her: Fan waits hours for Goretorium

Mikayla Clease, 18, wanted to be first in line for the opening of Eli Roth's Goretoroum in Las Vegas. She began waiting at 1:30 p.m. for the 11 p.m. opening.

Mikayla Clease stood outside Eli Roth's Goretorium Thursday afternoon made up with fake blood running down her face and arms. Crowds passing by naturally assumed she worked there and kept asking her questions. But she was just waiting.

27 September 2012
By Ron Sylvester

MGM Grand unveils $160 million room renovation in Las Vegas

This is a bedroom in one of the MGM Grand's remodeled suites Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012.

After eight years of planning and a year of construction, the MGM Grand neared completion of a $160 million renovation with the unveiling of its Skyline Terrace Suites this afternoon. The two-story suites go for $725 a night and include 780-square-foot patios overlooking the Las Vegas Strip. Designers said glass staircases open up the suite for skyline views throughout the rooms, which also include large windows.

27 September 2012
By Ron Sylvester

New York challenging Las Vegas in race for tallest Ferris wheel

This image released by the New York Mayor's Office on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, shows an artist's rendering of a proposed 625-foot Ferris wheel, billed as the world's largest, planned as part of a retail and hotel complex along the Staten Island waterfront in New York.

Everybody knows that big wheels roll in New York City. And New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is out to prove it. The mayor was scheduled today to announce construction of a 650-foot Ferris wheel — and they’re calling it that, not an observation wheel — on Staten Island’s north waterfront, just north of the Richmond County Bank Ballpark in St. George.

27 September 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Sandoval says no rush to name new Gaming Control chairman

Gov. Brian Sandoval says he’s not going to rush to naming a new chairman of the state Gaming Control Board to succeed Mark Lipparelli, who is stepping down tomorrow.

27 September 2012
By Cy Ryan

Campaign bickering over online poker aimed at donors, not voters

Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Shelley Berkley applaud during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City Monday, May 30, 2011.

The public spat between Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller over legalizing online poker appears to be aimed more at big casino campaign contributors, not voters.

27 September 2012
By Karoun Demirjian

D Las Vegas casino refunding losing Packers bets

Frustrated football bettors who took the Green Bay Packers on Monday night and lost on a controversial game-ending call can get a refund if they placed their bet downtown at the D Las Vegas, the casino’s owner said today.

26 September 2012
By Ron Sylvester

Deal for 4,000 gaming devices boosts Bally profit forecast

Analysts hiked their profit forecasts Tuesday for Bally Technologies Inc. of Las Vegas after the company said it signed contracts to sell or lease more than 4,000 video gaming terminals in Illinois over the next two years.

25 September 2012
By Steve Green

Controversial call results in $15 million swing at Nevada sports books

Green Bay Packers Seattle Seahawks in the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, in Seattle.

With three decades in the sports handicapping industry, Jimmy Vaccaro, one of Nevada’s top bookmakers, has never seen anything like this. The controversial ending to the Monday Night Football game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers not only made Seattle the winners on the field, it gave them the victory at Las Vegas sports books, thanks to an apparent blown call by officials.

25 September 2012
By Ray Brewer

Bally to provide online poker system for Stratosphere, sister casinos

Las Vegas-based casino supplier Bally Technologies Inc. today said it signed a deal to provide its online gaming platform to the Stratosphere and its sister properties in Southern Nevada.

24 September 2012
By Steve Green

Months of emails between Harry Reid, Dean Heller reveal how poker efforts deteriorated

The online poker bill-making process has never been pretty. But a collection of emails released by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s chief of staff Friday reveals an especially brambled picture of what has kept legislation crucial for Nevada’s biggest industry on ice for so long.

22 September 2012
By Karoun Demirjian

Judge dismisses Dotty's slot parlor lawsuit against Clark County

Cindy Clark plays a slot machine at Dotty's near Eastern and Serene in Henderson on Thursday, March 24, 2011.

A federal judge on Friday threw out the Dotty’s tavern and slot parlor chain lawsuit against Clark County, ruling county commissioners have broad powers to regulate such locals’ gaming establishments.

21 September 2012
By Steve Green

Wynn Resorts disputes regulatory claim of dissident board member

Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn, right, talks with Kazuo Okada during a Gaming Commission hearing Thursday, June 17, 2004, in Carson City, where Okada received approval for a license for his Japanese Aruze Corporation to manufacture and sell slot machines in Nevada.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. is disputing a key argument by dissident Wynn board member Kazuo Okada as Okada presses to be reinstated as the company’s largest shareholder. As he heads toward an October court showdown with Wynn Resorts, Okada has challenged the company’s move in February to redeem his shares and replace them at a 30 percent discount with a $1.9 billion note.

21 September 2012
By Steve Green
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