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Adelson Funded iGaming Study Comes Out Swinging, To No One’s Surprise
The thing about studies is, you can generally get them to support just about any viewpoint on just about anything, depending on who's involved and how you interpret the data. And when it's mega-billionaire Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson funding the...
Caesars Gets A Little Less Stocky with 11 Percent Price Drop
In what's proven to be its biggest stock plummet in nearly a year, Caesars Entertainment Corp's offerings dropped by 11 percent on Tuesday, largely due to the trades failing to have rights to partake in its impending Internet divisions' IPO, it seems....
Borgata Awarded First New Jersey Internet Gambling Permit
There’s still about six weeks to go before New Jersey’s online gambling sites will go live for the general public, but the first casino has already been approved to provide games when that times comes. The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa was...
Hengqin To Vie for Chinese Tourism with New Chimelong Amusement Park
While the Chinese government is in no rush to legalize gambling in the country outside of Macau (the most lucrative gambling destination in the world), that doesn’t mean they aren’t interested in the currency burning a hole in the pockets of Macau's...
Lax (Not the Airport) Las Vegas Casino Security for Hotel Guests
If you head into any casino in the world, you know there will be plenty of eyes watching you. Nowhere is this more true than in Las Vegas, where cameras - known as "eye-in-the-sky" - appear to be everywhere in black demi-globes...
Chinese Deadbeat Gambler Tossed From Eleventh Story Window Survives
Rather than hitting the roof after racking up a £6,000 ($9,600) debt, one man from China was basically thrown from one instead. During a recent trip to the big city, Guo Xu, aged 35, visited the card room at his hotel to...
Las Vegas Nightclubs Could Become City’s Biggest Revenue Source
When you think of Las Vegas, you think of gambling – it’s as simple as that. Except that it really isn’t that cut and dried at all. Ever since Las Vegas emerged as a center for gambling in the United States, it...
Runner Runner Hits Hot Buttons on Both Sides of Gambling Fence
Stars of films nowadays usually know ahead of time that all kinds of merchandising and interviews are part of the job. They know that entertainment reporters will ask them all kinds of nosey questions about their latest paramour, a scandalous outfit, or...
Cantor Gaming CEO Under Possible Investigation by Feds
Not a day goes by in the gaming universe without someone in a position of power somewhere being scrutinized by the feds anymore, it seems. Now Cantor Gaming CEO Lee Amaitis is under the spotlight, according to the The Wall Street Journal, on...
Slot Machines as Creative Design Find New Respect as Objets D’art
In every age of man, new forms of art emerge, whether cave drawings back in the Neolithic Age or painting in gold leaf on parchment during the Middle Ages. Now you can add Las Vegas slot machines to the list of "art"...