Patricia Becker holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve on the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Casinos & Gaming
The Macau casino market ended 11 straight months of double-digit gaming revenue increases in January and recorded its lowest single month growth rate since October 2012.
The $415 million SLS Las Vegas will open Labor Day Weekend, almost three years and three months after the hotel-casino, formerly known as the Sahara, was closed.
A Canadian real estate businessman was indicted by a grand jury on charges he failed to pay back $12.9 million in gambling debts to two Las Vegas casinos, Clark County prosecutors Wednesday.
A new Washington, D.C.-based coalition, backed by MGM Resorts International and the American Gaming Association, on Wednesday launched an effort to halt any congressional move to ban online wagering.
Their race and sports books may still say Cantor Gaming over the entrance. But the recently renamed CG Technology said Tuesday its eight sports books generated 16 percent of Nevada’s total handle and captured an 11.8 percent win on Sunday’s Super Bowl.
We all know Las Vegas isn’t only for the tourists. Here’s a look at the Top 10 casinos for locals, based on the Best of Las Vegas rankings as of Tuesday.
New Jersey gaming regulators have given Wynn Resorts Ltd. approval to offer an Internet wagering website within the state’s boundaries, but a spokesman for the Las Vegas-based casino operator said the company’s online gambling efforts are on hold.
Bally Technologies announced a systems agreement Monday with Boyd Gaming Corp. to operate the casino company’s slot machine in 18 casinos across seven states.
After six weeks of back-and-forth rhetoric, a new 10-year agreement was announced Jan. 24 to keep the NFR in Las Vegas — its home for 29 years — through 2024.
Nevada’s casino industry experienced its fourth consecutive annual increase in 2013, cracking the $11 billion barrier for the first time since 2008.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. Friday announced a third name in less than a year for the Strip casino that originally was opened as the Barbary Coast.
Wynn Resorts Ltd., the casino company that expects to open its Wynn Palace resort on Macau’s Cotai Strip during the first half of 2016, reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that easily beat analyst expectations. And the company’s revenues from its two Macau casinos increased by double-digits.
Buoyed by a 28 percent increase in revenue from its Macau subsidiary during the fourth quarter, Las Vegas Sands Corp. grew profits by 32.8 percent companywide for the three-month period ended Dec. 31.
An expanding market helped slot machine provider Multimedia Games increase profits in revenues in the company’s first quarter.
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