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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.

More than $500,000 was raised for charity as a result of the 2013 Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational hosted by ARIA Resort & Casino.

The hotel-casino spent millions of dollars in just more than eight months, renovating 428 rooms in its original Palms Tower, renamed the Ivory Tower, and demolishing old bars, restaurants and clubs and replacing them with new experiences.

The closed Flamingo Road casino, which caught fire Thursday, opened in 1973 as the Ambassador. In the 1980s, it was renamed the La Mirage Casino.

The Strip hotel-casino on Friday reported that it posted a net loss of $106.5 million for 2012, up from the $96.9 million net loss posted in 2011.

The son of casino building pioneer Tony Marnell II, the younger Marnell found success off the baseball diamond in business.

Casino City's Vin Narayanan and Aaron Todd discuss the odd debate surrounding sports betting kiosks in Nevada, the demise of budget hotels on the Las Vegas Strip and Revel's decision to allow smoking in their resort. They also recap their NCAA tournament brackets and make some more NCAA picks in the best bets segment.

The vote – conducted and monitored by the National Labor Relations Board on Friday – was 57 against the union and 34 in favor.

Oddsmakers and gaming industry analysts in Las Vegas said that if successful, a Nevada state senator’s efforts to legalize betting on politics will produce more notoriety than revenue.

Business is brisk for March Madness in Las Vegas casinos.

Higher energy costs can hurt the gaming industry. Consumers would spend less on leisure activities, airlines would reduce capacity and the costs to operate large casinos would increase.

Many of us long for the days when hotel-casino names on the Strip were Stardust, Sahara, Frontier, International, Barbary Coast, Aladdin, Dunes and Imperial Palace. OK, maybe not so much Imperial Palace.

Hundreds of security officers at Las Vegas hotel-casinos and convention facilities roam sprawling parking lots and garages looking for the bad guys while also offering a helpful greeting to visitors.

In a memorandum from Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett and Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie, resort leaders were told they are responsible for any criminal conduct in their venues, even if operated by a third-party vendor.