Penn National Gaming, which is spinning off its casino holdings into a separate publicly traded company, said quarterly profits declined due to soft gaming results in several markets.
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Judy Patterson has resigned as senior vice president and executive director of the Washington-based American Gaming Association, the organization she helped found. She will remain as a consultant over the next year.
Bob Faiss is considered one of the world’s leading gaming attorneys. His 40-year career could serve as a documentary on the history of Nevada gaming law and the expansion of the casino industry.
Station Casinos Executive Vice President Kevin Kelley quietly resigned from his position with the gaming company on Sept. 30.
John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks has been sold to a private investment group, which will end more than 50 years of family ownership in the Northern Nevada hotel-casino.
If you’re looking for a Price is Right chair, statues of lounging Greek goddesses or tiki huts for your backyard, you just hit the jackpot. Caesars Entertainment is unloading more than 14,000 chairs, lamp shades, metal bed frames and countless other items online and at the Rio this weekend.
Maryland gaming regulators ruled Thursday that three casino companies, including MGM Resorts International and Penn National Gaming, were suitable applicants to compete for a single gaming license that could place a multimillion-dollar casino complex near the nation’s capital.
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.
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.