Nevada News - Page 344

The work was just a small part of the ongoing renovation project, which also calls for stripping down and remodeling two of the property’s three hotel towers and demolishing a low-rise hotel building.

The $3.9 billion resort posted its best quarter in terms of casino revenue, generating $40.87 million, a 32.6 percent increase from $30.83 million in the first quarter of 2012.

Casinos statewide collected $914.8 million from customers during the month, an increase of 7.04 percent compared to the same month a year ago.

With Ultimate Poker -- licensed and regulated by Nevada -- now open for real-money business, Casino City's Aaron Todd surveys the landscape and identifies 10 states that should have online gaming.

Danielle Gomes is now shining the spotlight on her father’s career as a Nevada gaming agent in the 1970s.

Company officials said the launch of Ultimate Poker, the nation’s first legally regulated pay-to-play online gaming website, has exceeded expectations.

UNLV trustee Mark Yoseloff is concerned Las Vegas could be losing its well-deserved reputation as the center of innovation in the gaming industry.

Tropicana Entertainment Inc. announced Wednesday it sold the River Palms in Laughlin to Reno-based M1 Gaming for $7 million.

Further growth in the gaming industry is not going to occur in Nevada, but Nevada needs to make sure it has a healthy product that will bring visitors to the state, Wynn said.

Nevada is the first US state to go live with an online gambling site.

Downtown Las Vegas continues a major transformation as investors and developers pour hundreds of millions of dollars into redevelopment.

Ultimate Gaming, a majority-owned subsidiary of Station Casinos LLC, has launched real money online poker at UltimatePoker.com, making history as the first company in the United States to offer legal and secure online poker.

The site is expected to go live at 9 a.m. with limit and no-limit Texas hold ’em poker through single-table cash games, sit-and-go events and multi-table tournaments.

The land-based and online gaming worlds converged at the Global iGaming Summit & Expo (GiGse) last week to discuss the future of the online gaming industry in the U.S. Vin Narayanan offers 10 key storylines that emerged from the conference.

The regional casino giant said its overall revenues for the quarter that ended March 31 were $798.2 million, an increase of 8.4 percent compared with the first quarter of 2012.

The plaza will serve as a gateway into a 20,000-seat sports arena, which the company will build behind the two resorts with national arena developer AEG.

"Mobile Millions," a new casino game from Cantor Mobile Casino, now available to patrons of The Venetian and The Palazzo.

Rosemary from New York is the latest addition to the Caesars Entertainment circle of millionaires.

The record figures were the result of high-end baccarat play associated with the 10-day Chinese New Year holiday.

Full House Resorts has appointed Scott Ruhl as its Northern Nevada General Manager.