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MGM to match employee donations to civil rights groups
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 01:48:00 -
MGM Resorts International, the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas Strip, said Friday that it would match employee donations made to the ... |
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Trio accused of swindling Baton Rouge casino; 1 in custody
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:59:00 -
Three men are accused of cheating a Baton Rouge casino out of $56,000 by allegedly manipulating dice in a craps game. Louisiana State Police tell The Advocate authorities arrested ... |
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Woman hits $1.6 million jackpot at Las Vegas airport
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:40:00 -
There's nothing worse than waiting in the airport, unless you're waiting to be paid a $1.6 million jackpot like a California woman was Tuesday at McCarran International Airport. A woman from ... |
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Expansion at Emerald Island in downtown Henderson nearing completion
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -
The casino's administrative offices are in a former drugstore. The gaming floor is in what used to be a post office. The food preparation and storage areas used to be a Moose Lodge. It seems only fitting that the latest upgrades for Emerald Island in downtown Henderson include expanding by 10,000 square feet into ... |
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Las Vegas sportsbooks pause betting on Cowboys over Ezekiel Elliott suspension
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:31:00 -
ESPN reports that Las Vegas sportsbooks scrambled to take down various odds on the Dallas Cowboys today after news broke that the NFL had ... |
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$11.8 million Megabucks jackpot hit at Fremont
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:11:00 -
A visitor from Southern California hit an $11.8 million Nevada Megabucks jackpot Tuesday night at the Fremont Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Rodolfo T. hit the jackpot on the ... |
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Student's new Las Vegas table game similar to blackjack
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -
Matthew Stream dealt hand after hand of blackjack at a Northern California casino and seemed to run into a similar problem for players. In the quickness of ... |
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Cosmopolitan launching $100 million-plus room refresh
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:49:00 -
The Cosmopolitan has announced a major makeover of most of its hotel rooms, the latest in a series of upgrades at the resort that have included the addition of ... |
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Caesars taking payments in Las Vegas via popular Chinese app
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 18:31:00 -
Caesars Entertainment has started taking payments at multiple locations in Las Vegas from WeChat, a smartphone messaging app that's hugely popular in China.
Starting on Tuesday, the company began ... |
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Fertitta: Palms will reflect 'everything we've learned over last 30 years'
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:07:00 -
Chairman and CEO Frank J. Fertitta III said building and operating hybrid resorts (appealing to both tourists and locals) "is what we do." "We're going to take everything ... |
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Free self-parking at Wynn, Encore comes to an end
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:56:00 -
Wynn Resorts' properties have joined the list of casino-resorts on the Las Vegas Strip that no longer offer free self-parking. Wynn Las Vegas and Encore began charging customers to ... |
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Casinos embrace esports even as they work to understand it
Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -
Casinos are slowly embracing competitive video game tournaments as a way to help their bottom lines, but the money is coming from renting hotel rooms to the young players and selling them food and drinks, not from turning them into gamblers. Like most other ways gambling halls have ... |
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Next owner may expand Stratosphere with convention space
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 19:54:00 -
In a conference call with gaming analysts today, Golden Entertainment CEO Blake Sartini spoke about where the company saw its strongest results in the ... |
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Gaming trade group updates how it addresses problem gambling
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -
One of the gaming industry's largest trade groups announced an updated approach to problem gambling during a roundtable discussion on the issue at UNLV's international Gaming Institute on Thursday.
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Caesars, noting uptick in revenue, trumpets room renovations, esports push
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 01:45:00 -
Room renovations have been a priority for Caesars because it's a low-risk, high-reward investment that has driven revenue for the company. In a presentation accompanying the call, the company stated it plans to renovate just over 6,000 rooms by the end of next year ... |
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Flamingo completes $6.5 million renovation of meeting center
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 09:00:00 -
Caesars Entertainment announced Wednesday it has completed a renovation of its meeting center at the Flamingo Las Vegas, a first step in a refresh of the venerable ... |
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Boyd, noting a 'solid quarter,' talks steady success of locals market
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:00:00 -
Boyd Gaming, owner of such Las Vegas area casinos as the California, Orleans and Sam's Town, reported its second-quarter earnings today ... |
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MGM Resorts reports increased second-quarter earnings
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:00:00 -
Executives of MGM International were all superlatives during a conference call and webcast Thursday to discuss the company's second-quarter earnings. "We are quite ... |
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Nevada casinos end fiscal year with winnings up 2.9 percent
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:26:00 -
Nevada's gaming revenue was up last month and for fiscal 2017, according to numbers released today by the ... |
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Asian properties drive strong second quarter for Sands
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:45:00 -
The second quarter was a good one for Las Vegas Sands, Corp., based largely on results from its properties outside of Las Vegas, |
