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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will host a special meeting to consider expenses related to the bid. Las Vegas is already scheduled to host both Democratic and Republican primary debates later this year.

Casino City's Dan Podheiser has played poker in 16 different casinos in eight different states and two different countries. In this column, he details his 10 favorites.

Casino City's Dan Podheiser has played in his fair share of poker rooms. In this column, he lays out the top 10 qualities a perfect poker room should strive to have.

Net revenues were down compared to the second quarter of 2014, largely as a result of the ongoing revenue decline in the Macau market.

The conference will take place on July 17 and 18 at the Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.

The Poker Players Alliance brought the Republican Congressman from Texas to the World Series of Poker to recognize him for his work on behalf of legalizing online poker in the U.S.

The hotel-casino project is planned for the former New Frontier site.

Wynn Resorts stock on Monday closed below $100 per share for the first time since December 2010 after Macau reported its 12th straight monthly dip.

MGM becomes the latest Las Vegas operator to leave Nevada Power and purchase its own electricity on the wholesale market, joining Wynn Resorts and Las Vegas Sands.

With backing from megastar George Clooney, Las Ramblas was supposed to be an 11-tower set with gambling, condominium and hotel space on a 25-acre stage. But it turned out to be a complete flop.

Sweet Mary on a motorbike, just sitting through the trailers — with scenes of Kevin James’ Segway-riding security guard fighting an exotic bird, punching an elderly maid and crashing a performance of “Le Reve” — was soul crushing enough.

Both Wynn Resorts and Elaine Wynn, the ex-wife of company chairman and CEO Steve Wynn, are seeking shareholder support for the make-up of the company’s board.

Elaine Wynn has challenged the company’s selection process. She is asking shareholders to return her to the board over one of its chosen candidates.

Wynn Resorts sent a letter to shareholders Tuesday, asking them to support the company’s two board nominees and ignore Elaine Wynn, who launched a proxy fight to regain her seat.

Less than a week after being removed from consideration for another term as a member Wynn Resorts board, Elaine Wynn announced she was undertaking a costly and potentially nasty proxy fight to retain her seat.

In a proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wynn Resorts said it was reducing its Class I board members from three to two and said the board decided not to renominate Wynn to serve as a director.

In a proxy filing with the U.S. SEC Friday, Wynn Resorts said it will reduce its Class I board members from three to two.

The past 10 years covering gaming nationally and internationally have been nothing short of a theme park thrill ride that Disney’s greatest designers couldn’t conjure.

Wynn said its net income for the quarter that ended Sept. 30 was $191.4 million, or $1.88 per share. A year ago, the company reported net income of $182 million, or $1.79 per share.

Steve Wynn doesn't see the profit in Internet gaming in the U.S. currently and worries that a public relations crisis surrounding the activity would “invite additional regulation or oversight for land-based gambling.”