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Casinos & Gaming

John Ascuaga’s Nugget sold to private investment group

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.

Fill your palace with Caesars decor

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.

MGM Resorts, Penn National win suitability ruling from Maryland regulators

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.

One-day temporary casino known as Trailer Station to make return

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.

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Randy Black out as COO of Mesquite Gaming

Randy Black, the face of Mesquite’s casino industry since the 1990s, is no longer associated with the casino company that he founded.

In Vegas, security cameras guard money, not guests

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 to begin spinoff of real estate holdings

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.

Global Gaming Expo shows growth as industry deals with many issues

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.

Document conversion important to casinos

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.

 
Online poker thriller ‘Runner’ quickly politicized

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.”

Terms of Caesars restructuring, spinoff company set

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.

New Jersey to start Internet gambling

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.

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