Gaming

Nevada resort revenue hits record levels in 2017

A view of the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017.

Nongaming spending on the Strip drove resort revenue in Nevada to record levels in 2017, according to numbers released today by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Each January, the board release its Nevada Gaming Abstract, a review of the ...

12 January 2018
By Thomas Moore

Atlantic City casino revenue rose in 2017 for second year

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

Atlantic City's casinos saw their gambling revenue increase in 2017 for the second year in a row. Figures released Friday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement show the seven casinos won $2.66 billion in 2017. That's an ...

12 January 2018
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press

State Sen. Becky Harris to chair Gaming Control Board

State Sen. Becky Harris, R-Las Vegas, listens to testimony during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Carson City on Friday, June 2, 2017.

Gov. Brian Sandoval has chosen Republican state Sen. Becky Harris as the new chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Harris replaces ...

12 January 2018
By Thomas Moore

Downtown's Golden Gate to celebrate 112th birthday

A view of the Golden Gate in downtown Las Vegas Friday, Jan. 24, 2015.

One of the oldest structures in Southern Nevada, the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino will celebrate its 112th birthday on Saturday. The hotel was founded in 1906, a year after much of the land that would become downtown Las Vegas was parceled out and sold in an auction next to the rail line. Room rates, according to the company, were a $1 a day. The hotel has undergone ...

12 January 2018
By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Police investigating theft of gaming chips from Strip casino

Metro Police say they are looking for three people who stole chips from a Las Vegas Strip casino Wednesday night. Detectives are investigating the incident, which happened just before 10 p.m. at ...

11 January 2018
By Jesse Granger

Luxor esports arena to open in March

Exterior of Luxor on Las Vegas Blvd on September 30, 2015.

Esports Arena Las Vegas, the new gaming venue where the LAX nightclub used to be located at the Luxor, will open March 22, according to a statement released today by ...

11 January 2018
By Thomas Moore

Konami's old-school horse racing game rides new technology in test run

This image from the Fortune Cup horse racing game appears on a 65-inch LCD display that is surrounded by 10 betting stations.

The basic action of the Fortune Cup game is a series of tiny horse figurines “racing” around a track roughly the size of a foosball table. Konami describes it as a multistation mechanical horse racing game with ...

11 January 2018
By Thomas Moore

Four buildings in Las Vegas among the world’s most expensive

The Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip as seen on Sept. 30, 2015.

Apple Park in Cupertino, Apple’s new “spaceship” campus, tops the list of the most expensive buildings in the United States. With an estimated price of ...

10 January 2018
The Mercury News

Police looking for man who robbed Strip casino

Police are looking for a man who robbed a Las Vegas Strip casino-hotel. Metro Police Lt. David Gordon says a man armed with a handgun on Tuesday night demanded ...

10 January 2018
Associated Press

Penn National sues over Pennsylvania’s casino expansion

Pennsylvania-based casino owner Penn National Gaming sued Tuesday in a challenge to a central element of the state’s aggressive new law expanding casino gambling that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf signed as part of ...

10 January 2018
By Marc Levy, Associated Press

Stan Fulton, casino owner, video slot machine pioneer, dies in Las Vegas

Stan Fulton, owner of Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino and a pioneer in the world of video slot machines, has died. The casino said Fulton died Thursday in Las Vegas, Nevada, where ...

9 January 2018
Associated Press

Report: 18 states may introduce sports betting bills in 2018

A new report predicts 18 states will introduce bills to regulate sports betting this year, with 11 having a good chance of passing legislation. Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, which tracks gambling legislation nationwide, says that's just the minimum; the firm predicts more than ...

9 January 2018
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press

Failed Atlantic City casino is sold, could reopen in months

The Revel resort, right, is shown next to the closed Showboat on Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, in Atlantic City.

Atlantic City's most spectacular casino flop is getting another chance under new ownership and a new name. Colorado developer Bruce Deifik said Monday he had purchased Atlantic City's former Revel casino hotel from Florida developer Glenn Straub for $200 million. He plans to ...

8 January 2018
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press

Slain Vegas casino security guard remembered for her kindness, leadership

Former coworker Cristian Torres makes a final farewell during a remembrance service for LaTosha Juane White at the Unity Baptist Church, she one of two security officers recently killed by a gunman at Arizona Charlie's on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018.

The slain security guard’s family members, many wearing Mardi Gras beads and colorful hats, followed her silver casket outside an east valley church Saturday while dancing along to “As the Saints Go Marching in.” Outside ...

7 January 2018
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

South Dakota casino employee accused of staging robberies

A Rapid City casino employee has been arrested after police say he staged two robberies at the business. Carlos Guerrero, 28, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit grand theft and ...

5 January 2018
Rapid City Journal
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