Gaming

Internet poker company looks to Nevada for entry into U.S.

The world’s largest online poker site, facing big obstacles in winning congressional approval of Internet poker, has set its sights on a smaller target: getting Nevada lawmakers to approve online poker for state residents.

21 March 2011
By Liz Benston

Shareholder lawsuits against gaming companies heat up

Action is heating up in lawsuits filed since 2009 by disgruntled shareholders against MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and International Game Technology.

21 March 2011
By Steve Green

‘Chip Monk’ redeems gambling spoils left in collection plates

Chips in the collection plate? Not a problem for Arthur Nelson.

“Do you want to see one?” Arthur Nelson said with a raised eyebrow. We were sitting in an office inside the glorious Guardian Angel Cathedral, that peculiarly located church immediately north of Encore Las Vegas on the Strip.

19 March 2011
Steve Friess

Fired Las Vegas Sands executive hits Sheldon Adelson with defamation claim

Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson talks during a press conference in Macau in this May 18, 2004 file photo.

Steven Jacobs, Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s fired Macau executive, amended his lawsuit against the company Wednesday to include a defamation count against Las Vegas Sands and personally against Sands CEO and Chairman Sheldon Adelson.

17 March 2011
By Steve Green

Bally Technologies executive named Shuffle Master CEO

Bally Technologies Inc. executive Gavin Isaacs in Las Vegas today was named CEO at another Las Vegas casino supplier, Shuffle Master Inc.

17 March 2011
By Steve Green

Choosing a sports book is a matter of who you are, not where

Brian Semmerling of Las Vegas checks the screens at the Sports and Race Book at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Tuesday, March 15, 2011.

Momentous decisions must be made by the tens of thousands of out-of-towners descending on Las Vegas for the beginning of March Madness — the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

17 March 2011
By Liz Benston

Judge: Fired exec's lawsuit against Las Vegas Sands can move forward

A state judge in Las Vegas today refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed against Las Vegas Sands Corp. by its fired Macau CEO Steven Jacobs.

15 March 2011
By Steve Green

Reality show 'Undercover Boss' will feature MGM Grand executive

MGM Grand President and Chief Operating Officer Scott Sibella is going undercover as a frontline employee at his property for a CBS reality show.

15 March 2011
By Amanda Finnegan

Baccarat, penny slots overtake blackjack as games of choice on Strip

Two extreme ends of the gambling spectrum — baccarat and penny slots — are helping Nevada survive the Great Recession. For the first time last year, baccarat generated more revenue statewide than blackjack, a game that is losing ground.

15 March 2011
By Liz Benston

Tropicana Entertainment writes down asset values in fourth quarter

The Tropicana Laughlin.

Tropicana Entertainment Inc., investor Carl Icahn's gaming company, on Monday said it took $20.7 million in noncash accounting charges to write down the value of certain intangible assets in the fourth quarter.

14 March 2011
By Steve Green

Strip room prices no drag on Cosmopolitan's rates

The Chandelier Bar at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.

In the price war still plaguing hotels on the Strip, the Cosmopolitan seems a bit like the new kid who’s too cool to play with the others.

14 March 2011
By Liz Benston

Sahara guests, workers fondly remember ‘the last of the oldies’

The Sahara hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Friday, March 11, 2011, the same day the property made the announcement it would be closing.

Helmut Hartleb first visited Las Vegas in 1958, six years after the Sahara opened. He remembers the lights and the excitement on the north end of the Strip. And for the past 30 or more years, he and his wife, Joan, have made a yearly trip to Las Vegas.

12 March 2011
By Dylan Scott

Las Vegas company to buy Carson City casino

CARSON CITY – A Las Vegas slot machine company is buying the Carson Station hotel-casino owned by Clark Russell, son of the late Gov. Charles Russell.

11 March 2011
By Cy Ryan

Sahara's closure could hurt monorail, but station will stay open

A monorail train pulls out of the Sahara Station in this 2006 file photo.

The closure of the Sahara hotel-casino is likely to harm the bankrupt Las Vegas Monorail, which has a station at the Sahara that is the transportation system’s northern terminus and a connecting point to the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s bus transit system.

11 March 2011
By Richard N. Velotta

Sahara's closure on May 16 will mark 'the end of an era'

The Sahara hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Friday, March 11, 2011, the same day the property made the announcement it would be closing.

The owner of the Sahara hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip on Friday announced plans to close the property on May 16. "The continued operation of the aging Sahara was no longer economically viable," said a statement from Sam Nazarian, CEO of SBE Entertainment Group.

11 March 2011
By Steve Green
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