Nevada News - Page 630

Slot Expert John Robison answers your slot and video poker questions.

Advantage gambler James Grosjean beat the odds by winning a $400,000 judgment against a Strip casino that a jury agreed violated his rights four years ago.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board is leery of a portable wireless device that could someday help casino customers get cash quickly by debit or credit card.

Caesars Palace and Mandalay Bay will be able to continue running private gaming salons but were chastised by gaming regulators for not bringing in enough high rollers.

Boomtown Casino and Hotel Reno has promoted Peggy Dougherty to Director of Information Technology.

News Brief: GameTech International, the Reno-based supplier of electronic bingo equipment, has laid off 12 workers, about half of them engineers.

The two airlines with the most flights at McCarran International Airport will add more operations early next year.

News Brief: Jackpot's Cactus Petes Resort Casino and The Horseshoe Hotel & Casino, owned by Ameristar Casinos Inc., brought in operating income of $3.5 million in the third quarter and saw operating income margins rise by 5.7 percentage points.

If nothing else, Las Vegas' ratio of stuffed game animals to residents is about to increase exponentially.

The success of Wynn Las Vegas's online recruiting program is palpable in the lack of people gathered outside its employment center.

With showgirls, Elvis and a British beefeater in the crowd, Sunday's arrival of Great Britain's second-largest airline at McCarran International Airport might have been mistaken for just another costume party on Halloween.

GSN, the network for games, is now expanding into the poker business with Poker Royale: The WPPA Championship, an exclusive six-episode series.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

Wynn Las Vegas goes operational Monday with the opening of its employment center and what is thought to be the largest Internet recruiting program ever, anywhere.

With design work done, financing complete and shell construction wrapping up, the $2.5 billion project becomes operational Monday when it starts hiring an expected 9,000 line employees, developer Steve Wynn said.

Be it spooky ghouls and goblins or the prospect of four years under whichever polarizing presidential candidate has most drawn your ire, there's plenty to be afraid of over the next few days.

In the poker room of The Palms Casino where he plays regularly, he is known as Lucky Mickey and Michael Glass earned the moniker this afternoon when he won $13.6 million on Nevada Megabucks.

News Brief: According to the study, published last month in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the air in bars and casinos can have up to 50 times more cancer-causing particles than the air on rush-hour highways.

With 10,000 casino workers going into the fifth week of their walkout in Atlantic City, union officials escalated hostilities Thursday by filing about 200 unfair labor practices complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.

News Brief: An owner of the Golden Nugget says that his hotel's parking garage was structurally sound despite two cars plunging from the building in less than a year.