Gaming

Old Lady Luck slated to reopen next year as Downtown Grand

A view of the Lady Luck hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.

The 650-room Lady Luck hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas is completely gutted now but with renovations, it should be ready to open in April 2013. It will be renamed the Downtown Grand.

8 February 2012
By Cy Ryan

Gaming Control Board OKs sale including 2 Pahrump casinos

Veteran Las Vegas gaming figure Blake Sartini has gained preliminary state approval to become the biggest slot machine route operator in Nevada.

8 February 2012
By Cy Ryan

Hooters Las Vegas, creditor fight over $100 million 'deficiency'

Hooters hotel-casino just off the Las Vegas Strip.

A bankruptcy judge is weighing whether Nevada’s new law on “deficiency judgments” will apply to the auction of the Hooters hotel-casino in Las Vegas. The Legislature last summer passed Assembly Bill 273 in what was billed as an effort to help homeowners losing their homes to foreclosure. With so many homeowners underwater in their mortgages, the Legislature limited deficiency judgments to help them.

7 February 2012
By Steve Green

Super Bowl generates $93.8 million in bets to Nevada sports books

David Dang, right, of Anchorage roots for the New York Giants as he watches the Super Bowl at the Las Vegas Hotel's Superbook Sunday, February 5, 2012.

Gamblers bet $93.8 million on the Super Bowl, the second highest amount in the last ten years.

7 February 2012
By Cy Ryan

Fertittas putting another $73 million into Station Casinos

Brothers Lorenzo, left, and Frank Fertitta shown in this 2008 file photo.

Station Casinos LLC executives Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta plan to invest another $73 million in the Las Vegas company by buying out another shareholder. In another indication of the Fertitta brothers’ support for the company and their belief in the struggling locals gaming market, Station disclosed Monday that a company affiliated with the Fertittas plans to buy certain ownership units held by JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.

7 February 2012
By Steve Green

Flush with money, visitors flooding Las Vegas for Super Bowl weekend

Illuminated by the lights of the game board, NFL fans kick back and relax while watching games at the Mirage Race & Sports Book on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011.

With the Super Bowl kicking off in less than 72 hours, hundreds of thousands of visitors and the millions of dollars they bring with them are pouring into Las Vegas.

3 February 2012
By Conor Shine

Wynn reports revenue increases, hints at Encore redesign

An exterior view of the Wynn and Encore Tuesday, November 15, 2011.

Executives at Wynn Resorts on Thursday reported earnings higher than analysts expected, announced breaking a four-year-old casino win record and hinted about redesigning the traffic flow at the company’s Encore property.

2 February 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Slot-maker Bally reports record revenue for fourth straight quarter

Las Vegas-based slot machine manufacturer Bally Technologies reported record gaming operations revenue for the fourth straight quarter, propelling the company to earnings that outpaced analysts’ expectations.

1 February 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas Sands revenue, profits surged in late 2011, report says

Las Vegas Sands Corp. on Wednesday issued the first financial statistics from the Las Vegas Strip for the fourth quarter of 2011, and they confirmed tourism is rebounding in the city.

1 February 2012
By Steve Green

77-year-old wins house in Station Casinos' football contest

Ernie and Fran Carey at their current home near Sunrise Mountain in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012.

For 77-year-old Ernie Carey, who won a house in the Station Casinos’ $2 million Great Giveaway Football Contest, it took a little experience and a little luck to come up a winner.

31 January 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Guest who stayed at Luxor dies of Legionnaires’ disease

hree guests at the Luxor have contracted Legionnaires’ disease since last spring, including one who recently died as a result, the Southern Nevada Health District announced today.

30 January 2012
By Jackie Valley

Boyd Gaming to fight tax ruling on comped meals

Attorney John Bartlett says he wasn’t surprised by the decision of the Nevada Tax Commission to reject the request for a $21 million refund from his client Boyd Gaming, owner of 12 casinos in Clark County.

24 January 2012
By Cy Ryan

Ruling rebuffs casinos seeking refund of taxes paid on comped meals

The French Market Buffet inside Boyd Gaming's Orleans resort. The Nevada Tax Commission ruled Monday that casinos must pay sales tax on comped meals given to gamblers.

In a decision with far-reaching impact on the state budget and casino balance sheets, the Nevada Tax Commission ruled Monday that casinos must pay sales tax on comped meals given to players and their employees.

24 January 2012
By Cy Ryan

Former Nevada tourism official reflects on his stint at N. Korea casino

For all the mystery engulfing North Korea, Robert E. Goodman knows what that isolated country and tourist-laden Las Vegas have in common. They both lust for Chinese gamblers.

14 January 2012
By David McGrath Schwartz

Lawmakers pushing for federal Internet poker law under pressure to act

Las Vegas-based casino companies such as MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment are pushing for federal legislative regulating online poker.

The gambling lobby has a message for Congress as states line up to cash in on a White House ruling that in-state online lotteries and poker won’t violate a federal Internet betting ban: Deal now or get stuck with a bad hand. A Justice Department opinion issued before Christmas has created a now-or-never dynamic on the Hill for lawmakers and lobbyists pushing for a federal Internet poker law as state and regional officials move ahead with online gambling plans.

13 January 2012
David Saleh Rauf, POLITICO
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