How will the hotels and casinos of Las Vegas fight for customers in the waning days of the pandemic? And how will they set themselves apart from their competition when a vaccinated populace emerges from a year or two on lockdown? The answers to some of these questions may be found in the opening of…
Running a casino isn't easy, even if you fancy yourself to be one of the greatest businessmen in history. If you don't believe that, just ask former US President and failed casino boss, Donald Trump. His reign in Atlantic City came to a crashing conclusion this week when the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino was…
It's really hard to overstate what a calamitous year 2020 was for Nevada's casino gaming industry. From a 78-day closure, when no money was coming in, to a public that's still reluctant to travel, there was hardly any good news to be had from the birthplace of modern casino gambling in 2020. Not surprisingly, 2020…
A Canadian casino CEO and his wife are in hot water after executing a clever effort to jump massive coronavirus vaccine line in the Great White North. Unfortunately, most people take a pretty dim view of this kind of chicanery and the couple are facing some pretty serious legal issues as a result of their…
The gambling industries has long been one of those 80/20 kind of industries. Those are the businesses where 80 percent of the revenue comes from 20 percent of the customers. More specifically, gambling operators rely on a minuscule portion of the player pool who spend disproportionate amount of cash and, therefore, generate a disproportionate amount…
Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANRF), an advocacy group for (you guessed it) non-smokers, has visited America's casinos and they didn't like what they saw. Now they're lobbying the American Gaming Association (AGA) to call for casinos that allow smoking to forgo desperately needed COVID-19 relief funds. It's a long-shot bid that's not likely to get…
Former New York Governor David Patterson thinks that new casinos could be the Empire State's ticket out of COVID-related financial catastrophe. As such, he's promoting a plan that would see three new casinos in the state, but he's going to need some serious political help if the plan is going to come to fruition. Patterson,…
The glittering casinos of the Las Vegas Strip were once the standard bearers for the worldwide gambling industry. Those temples of gaming were, and are, the model for practically every large scale casino on the planet. But in the wake of the chaos caused by the corona virus revenue for Silver State casinos is way…
When it comes to funding public education in Nevada, some local teacher's unions are looking to casinos for relief. The Clark County Education Association (CCEA) is advocating for a significant increase in both casino taxes and sales taxes in an effort to pump more cash into the Clark County's revenue-famished public schools. According to a…
A VIP player is suing the Park Lane Casino in Mayfair over an alleged promise to refund a sizable share of his wagers. It's a promise the casino says it never made and it's now up to Judge Gavin Mansfield to sort the whole matter out. At the heart of the dispute is an allegation…
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