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Macau Casinos Win $37.5B in 2018, Visitation Increase Cited for 14 Percent Gaming Revenue Gain
Macau casinos won 302,846 MOP ($37.54 billion) in 2018, a 14 percent premium on 2017 and the enclave's highest mark since 2014. An increase in mass market visitation has been credited for the gaming rebound,...
2018 Sports Betting Recap: Wild Wagers, Big Wins, and Massive Losses
The gaming industry will remember 2018 as the year the federal sports betting ban was repealed. The Supreme Court's decision in May paved the way for states to join Nevada in offering full-fledged sports betting, and...
Las Vegas Strip Revenues Impacted by Bumped Up Resort and Parking Fees in 2018
Las Vegas Strip revenues took a hit from casino resort and parking fees that kept on climbing in 2018. And at a time when gaming operators might have pushed a more welcoming structure on visitors...
Las Vegas Legend Steve Wynn, Once Revered, Goes from Gaming Kingpin to Industry Exile in 2018
Steve Wynn had been associated with the Las Vegas Strip and the integrated casino resort concept for decades, but in 2018, the man who changed Sin City forever with The Mirage's then-fresh volcano concept saw...
Biggest Gaming Industry Legal Conflicts, Battles, and Outright Wars of 2018
The gaming industry kept its legal teams busy in 2018, as an onslaught of critical issues hit litigation -- or threatened to -- between casinos, ancillary businesses, federal, state, and tribal governments, and just plain...
Macau Expected to Post Record Visitation Tally in 2018
Macau casinos have reduced their focus on the high roller VIP, and their transition to the mass market is leading to record visitation traffic in the Chinese Special Administrative Region (SAR). The Macau Government Tourist...
Craziest, Wildest, Most Bizarre Casino Gaming News of 2018: A Look Back
For casino gaming news, 2018 was the year that kept on giving. Between scandals and politics and a good number of just plain nuts, we were often simultaneously entertained and horrified as each day seemed...
Steve Wynn Lawsuit Scheduled for January 4 Hearing, Longtime Board Member Departs Company
The lawsuit filed by Steve Wynn against his former company and Massachusetts state gaming regulators will have its day in a Nevada court early next year. Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez has scheduled...
Nevada Black Book Adds 35th Member After Gaming Commission Rejects Plea
The so-called Nevada "black book" has a new inductee after the state Gaming Commission refused an exclusion plea from Jeffrey Martin for his role in a craps theft that took place at the Bellagio between...
MGM Real Estate Investment Trust Paying for Monte Carlo Renovation, Increases Annual Lease by $50M
MGM Growth Properties (MGP), the casino operator's real estate investment trust (REIT), announced this week that it's paying for the Monte Carlo transformation to split the Strip resort into Park MGM and NoMad Las Vegas....
