Casinos & Gaming
Ohio is ready to do battle with the con artists expected to arrive with the opening of the state’s first casinos next month.
The LVH-Las Vegas Hotel & Casino management expects operating deficits through the end of this year as it works to fill the hole in its customer base created by the loss of the Hilton franchise.
Boyd Gaming is enticing Farmville fans to abandon their virtual crops in favor of real-life prizes. The Las Vegas-based gaming company, which owns 17 casinos in Nevada, Mississippi, New Jersey, Louisiana, Indiana and Illinois, is going social with the Monday launch of its upgraded “B Connected” website.
For the past decade, the Rampart Casino and JW Marriott Resort and Spa in Summerlin have operated as two distinct entities.
Gaming stocks posted modest gains Wednesday as the Las Vegas Sands Corp. celebrated the opening of its $4.4 billion Sands Cotai Central casino resort in Macau. Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts all operate casino resort properties in the Chinese territory.
A district judge in Carson City threw out a petition that would have allowed the state to increase the gaming tax on casinos to 9 percent as early as 2015.