Those are some provoking questions addressed in the new edition of the “Nevada Gaming Law Practice and Procedure Manual,” unveiled last month in a reception during a gaming law conference at UNLV.
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“Accounting for the Gaming Industry,” “Sociology of Gambling” and “Casino Marketing” are courses offered through programs coordinated by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ International Gaming Institute.
Anyone who has studied the numbers regularly knows that the gaming win statistics for Southern Nevada’s geographic regions are extremely volatile. One month, an area may be up by double-digit percentages. The next, it could be down by double-digit percentages. Then, maybe the next month, it levels off, only to climb high, then drop low, just like the Desperado coaster at Primm, a personal favorite.
We’ll have to endure the summer heat twice before we get to see the puck drop at T-Mobile Arena for the Las Vegas Whatever-We’re-Going-to-Call-Them hockey team competing in the National Hockey League’s 2017-18 season.
With several presentations vying for attention at the same time at last week’s 16th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, it wasn’t too surprising that it was a small and mostly local crowd that showed up to hear four panelists talk about opening day at The Mirage more than 25 years ago.
When my journalism career landed me in Las Vegas in 1991, The Mirage and the Excalibur had recently opened. At that time, I could only imagine the explosive growth on the horizon for the Strip and how the gaming industry was going to forever change.
In an interview in 1990, I learned a lesson or two about finance. But I also learned about the competition, rivalries and personalities that make up the casino industry.
Lawmakers in more than two dozen states are considering daily fantasy sports proposals that would either legalize and regulate the activity, ban it outright, or do nothing.
Mike Rumbolz never expected to be a CEO at this stage of his gaming career. But casino equipment provider Everi Holdings needed to make a drastic change.
Steve Wynn was calm and complimentary toward the Macau government 12 days ago during the company’s fourth-quarter conference call.
A new Nevada gaming regulation will change the manner in which casinos owned by private investment groups report their quarterly financial results.
It’s high time to ignore the Culinary Union. Once again, union officials duped us over another stunt stemming from the labor organization’s fixation on locals gaming giant Station Casinos.
The marriage between Penn National Gaming and Gaming and Leisure Properties is unbreakable despite a two-year separation. Some marriages might be rocky, but this is a gaming industry Valentine’s Day story.
Steve Wynn has talked in glowing terms about his company’s plans to build a resort complex along the Mystic River in the Boston-area town of Everett.
The Carolina Panthers didn’t exist and Peyton Manning was in high school when Congress halted expansion of legal sports wagering in the U.S. in 1992.