Excalibur Hotel and Casino News - Page 5

Poker players at Excalibur heading into the casino's poker room will find a fully automated poker room.

The Excalibur in Las Vegas shut down its poker room Sunday night and will re-open it this Friday, but there will be no live dealers or real poker chips. Instead, 12 PokerPro tables will be in place, giving Las Vegas its first electronic poker room.

Casino City digs into its in-depth data to come up with a Top-10 list of casino hotels by the number of rooms available. While Malaysia's Casino de Genting leads the list with more than 6,000 rooms, the other nine properties all reside in Las Vegas.

This week: reflections on nightclubs, vodka, Las Vegas, and casino chips embedded with radio frequency identification tags.

A strike by maintenance workers planned for Monday at three Strip resorts was averted when employees voted to accept a new five-year agreement negotiated with a federal mediator.

Union-backed maintenance workers at three Mandalay Resort Group properties could walk off their jobs as soon as Wednesday after the latest contract offer was overwhelmingly rejected in voting that ended Friday.

A third meeting between a federal mediator and representatives of the Mandalay Resort Group and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501 is expected to take place after Thanksgiving in an effort to resolve a months-long contract dispute.

VirtGame Corp. reports that the Excalibur Hotel and Casino, a property of the Mandalay Resort Group, has contracted to be included in VirtGame's Sports Bet Express.