Gaming

Ocean Resort Casino bringing Topgolf Swing Suite to Atlantic City

This June 15, 2016 photo shows the exterior of the shuttered Revel casino in Atlantic City N.J. The new owners of the property, due to reopen under a new brand this summer, said Monday, April 23, 2018, it will offer the world's largest Top Golf Swing Suite.

Atlantic City's Ocean Resort Casino is starting to get into the swing of things. The former Revel property, due to reopen under a new brand this summer, is bringing ...

Suspect in casino picnic shooting fled in car he planted 3 days earlier, arrested at Texas rest stop

Las Vegas police Capt. Robert Plummer speaks during a news conference on the arrest of Anthony Wrobel, Thursday, April 19, 2018, in Las Vegas. Wrobel, a suspect in the fatal shooting of a casino executive and the wounding of another, was arrested Thursday in Texas.

Authorities in the Texas Panhandle this morning arrested a "disgruntled" dealer suspected of shooting two Strip hotel-casino executives. Anthony Wrobel, 42, was taken into custody without further incident in ...

Atlantic City's Hard Rock casino to open June 28

This April 18, 2018, photo shows Jim Allen, CEO of Hard Rock International, at a news conference in New York at which he announced the company's new casino in Atlantic City N.J. would open on June 28.

Hard Rock will open its Atlantic City casino resort on June 28. Jim Allen, the global entertainment and hospitality company's CEO, made the announcement today at Hard Rock's Times Square restaurant. The former Trump Taj Mahal casino is being rebranded as ...

Fix the TV in my Las Vegas hotel room? There's an app for that

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

When a guest at the Plaza in downtown has a request for maintenance, say for example to fix a television in their room, the hotel’s response is now quicker because of technology the ...

Caesars to manage 2 luxury hotels in Dubai

Dubai's Meraas Holding has tied up with the U.S.-based Caesars Entertainment to manage two luxury hotels, a conference centre and a beach club on Bluewaters in Dubai, adding another ...

Icahn's company strikes approximately $1.85B Tropicana deal

This Jan. 31, 2018, photo shows part of the casino floor at the Tropicana in Atlantic City N.J. On Monday April 16, Carl Icahn sold the real estate assets of Tropicana Entertainment to Gaming and Leisure Properties, and its casino operations to Eldorado Resorts in a $1.85 billion deal. Tropicana's casino in Aruba is not part of the deal.

Carl Icahn's company has struck an approximately $1.85 billion deal that would fuse the gaming and hotel operations of Tropicana Entertainment to ...

Slot player wins $620K at The Orleans in Las Vegas

An exterior view of the Orleans, 4500 W Tropicana Ave., in Las Vegas Wednesday, May 13, 2015.

The lucky woman was playing the Aristocrat's Buffalo Grand machine about 2:30 a.m. when she won ...

This Las Vegas casino is turning waste into profit through recycling

Glass bottles separated from the garbage at the Silver Sevens casino are stored in a bin for recycling. The Las Vegas property is expected to net a savings of about $25,000 a year.

Silver Sevens, looking to limit its environmental footprint, instituted a conservation and sustainability program last year. The first six months of the effort led to the recycling of ...

Atlantic City casino earnings up 22.5 percent in 2017

This Jan. 31, 2018, photo shows a gambler playing a slot machine at the Tropicana Casino and resort in Atlantic City N.J.

Less competition has led to higher profits for Atlantic City's casinos in 2017 — but will it last with two more casinos soon to join the mix? The seven casinos saw their gross operating profits increase by ...

Australians are the world's biggest gambling losers, and some seek action

Players at electronic gaming machines in Australia, March 26, 2018. Legalized gambling, including from electronic gaming machines known as pokies, is an important source of tax revenues for Australian states and territories.

The average Australian adult loses around $900 to gambling each year — more than double the rate of Americans — and electronic gaming machines are getting the blame ...

New venue at Aria to feature poker, esports productions

A rendering of the PokerGo Studio at the Aria, which will feature poker and esports productions.

ESP Gaming and Poker Central are partnering to open a television studio on the Strip at Aria ...

2017 Atlantic City visitors lowest in 30 years, report says

This July 11, 2014, aerial photo shows the Atlantic City, N.J., beachfront with many of its Boardwalk casinos.

Tourist visits to the city last year were the lowest since the early 1980s, according to a recent report from the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism at Stockton University, but officials believe ...

Station Casinos forces Reno's Feast restaurant to change name

The feast will go on — but not as Feast. The Midtown Reno restaurant must change its name following a deal with Station Casinos Inc., the holder of two ...

MGM Growth Properties buying Ohio casino

MGM Growth Properties of Las Vegas said Thursday morning it plans to buy the Hard Rock Rocksino in Northfield for about $1.06 billion. MGM said in a news release that it plans to fund the purchase with ...

Former Atlantic City casino moving toward reopening

The Revel casino is seen Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Atlantic City.

Atlantic City's former Revel casino is moving toward its reincarnation as the Ocean Resort Casino. The Boardwalk property said Monday it's affiliating with the Hyatt hotel chain. The announcement came on the sixth anniversary of the ...