Gaming regulators gave Station Casinos and United Coin Machine preliminary approval to operate a one-day temporary casino at the 26-acre site of the since-imploded Showboat/Castaways property on the edge of downtown near the Boulder Highway.
Casinos & Gaming
Randy Black, the face of Mesquite’s casino industry since the 1990s, is no longer associated with the casino company that he founded.
Las Vegas casinos — some of the most closely-watched spaces in the world — don’t have video cameras in guest room hallways, an absence that hotel workers, patrons and prosecutors say can act as a green light for crime.
Penn National Gaming will begin the spinoff its real estate holdings into a separate public company this month, the casino operator and owner of M Resort told investors last week.
Although most might think the gaming business is confined to the borders of Nevada and New Jersey, the commercial casino industry consists of 513 casinos in 23 states, with 34 percent of the total U.S. population visiting a casino last year.
NEWave Inc., which launched in the early 1990s as New Wave Automation, found success filling a niche in the gaming business. That niche is developing software that automates documents allowing casinos to archive them electronically.
Gaming analysts were turned into film critics during last month’s Global Gaming Expo.
Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings has quietly carved out an extra-large share of the neophyte U.S. online gaming market.
The thriller “Runner Runner” starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck hasn’t even opened yet, but it’s already in the center of the fight over online gambling regulation.”
Caesars Entertainment Corp. told shareholders they have until Oct. 17 to participate in a stock sale that will raise $1.18 billion and place ownership of Planet Hollywood, the company’s interactive division and a new Baltimore casino into a new holding company.
ATLANTIC CITY — Residents and visitors will be able to start gambling online on Nov. 26 in New Jersey, after a five-day trial period to make sure the systems operated by Atlantic City’s 12 casinos work properly.
The downtown Las Vegas resort property once known as the Lady Luck will reopen next month as the Downtown Grand, the property’s chief executive said Friday.
BOSTON— Three companies have formally applied to operate a slots parlor, the first type of expanded gambling facility expected to open in Massachusetts, state gambling regulators said Friday.
While viewing the $185 million transformation of the Barbary Coast/Bill’s Gamblin’s Hall into the Gansevoort Las Vegas, hotel developer Michael Achenbaum said he was seeking “an interesting and unique” opportunity to plant his boutique lifestyle hotel on the Strip.
Cantor Fitzgerald LP denied a published report Thursday that federal prosecutors are investigating its gaming unit’s chief executive for participating in his company accepting illegal sports bet.
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