31st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Global Cash Access Signs
New Contracts With 16 Gaming Properties
31st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Park Place Reports Financial
Results for Third Quarter of 2001
31st
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Layoff
charges contribute to MGM MIRAGE loss
31st
October Gardena, California
Source: Daily Breeze
Matriarch
of Gardena casino dies
The 72 table Normandie card
casino was opened 61 years ago and remains a family owned business.
31st
October Las Vegas &
Atlantic City Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Alliance Gaming Secures
Agreement With Harrah's to Install SDS® Slot System at Showboat Atlantic
City
31st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Mikohn Reports 54 Percent
Improvement in Third Quarter Income Before Extraordinary Item
31st
October Louisiana
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Boyd Gaming Receives Louisiana
Gaming License For Delta Downs Racetrack and Casino
31st
October New York
Source: Boston.com
Casino case raises issues
of money, politics - Contributions coincide with favorable decisions
30th
October Las Vegas
Source: Northern Light/Canadian News Wire
Park
Place Names Global Gaming Veteran Peter George To Lead International Development
And Operations
30th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire & Motley Fool
MGM MIRAGE Reports Third
Quarter Results
MGM Mirage's Earnings Disappear
30th
October New York
Source: Oneida Daily Dispatch - Oct 26th
Gambling
law good news for track, casino
29th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Alliance Gaming Announces
Acquisition of Casino Marketplace Development Corporation; Two New Senior
Vice Presidents Named
29th
October New York
Source: TimesUnion.com
Casinos
bring wind of change
In the wake of potential
casino developments in the Catskill Mountains - property speculators are
already making their move.
28th
October Atlantic City
Source: New Jersey Record - Oct 25th
Threat of NY gambling expansion
chills Atlantic City casinos
27th
October New York
Source: Las Vegas Sun/AP
N.Y.
may be tip of iceberg for expansion of casinos
New
casinos likely to hurt Atlantic City
27th
October Atlantic City
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire & Reuters
Trump Hotels & Casino
Resorts Third Quarter Results
Trump Hotels profits up,
girds for Indian casinos
26th
October Arizona & Las
Vegas Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Atronic's Adventure at G2E:
A Success Story
26th
October New York
Source: Las vegas Review Journal
Supporters,
foes debate N.Y. gambling expansion - Opponents argue measure exploits
Sept. 11 attacks
Slot
machine companies might be winner with New York gaming bill's OK
26th
October Atlantic City
Source: PressPlus.com - Joe Weinert
Southern N.Y. ready to be
next player in casino game
26th
October New York
Source: Boston.com
New York's new gambling
initiatives sure to be challenged in court.
26th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Las Vegas Sands Inc. Reports
Third-Quarter Results
The parent company of the
Venetian Casino Resort reported total revenues for the quarter of $123.2
million compared with $136.5 in 2000.
25th
October New York
Source: CNN/AP & Las Vegas Sun
NY Senate approves gambling
expansion
Historic
expansion of gambling approved
25th
October Illinois
Source: Yahoo/AP
Crackdown on Cockfighting
Increasing
25th
October Albany, New York
Source: The Post-Star & Yahoo/New York Post/AP
Senate approves wide-ranging
gambling expansion
Tracks will be off to races
with video slots
N.Y. Senate Approves Gambling
Plan
25th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Mikohn's New Products Solid
Winners at Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas
25th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Casino
security now a top priority
24th
October New York
Source: New York Daily News & Yahoo/AP
Rudy:
Deal City In on Casinos
NY
Governor Eyes Gambling Expansion
24th
October Reno
Source: Yahoo/AP
Flamingo Reno hotel-casino
closes with worker protest
24th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Experts:
New wave of slot cheats emerging - Some familiar scams also resurface
24th
October Las Vegas
Source: LVRJ & Las Vegas Sun
The
Evolving Strip: Desert Inn down in the dust
Way
cleared for Wynn's Le Reve
23rd
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/AP
Desert
Inn Hotel Is Demolished - Photos
The list of Las Vegas implosions
being: Dunes (1993), Landmark (1995), Sands (1996), Hacienda (New Year's
Eve 1996), Aladdin (1998) & El Rancho (2000).
History
of the Desert Inn at www.lvstriphistory.com
23rd
October Reno
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Gaming Industry Sees First
Permanent Job Casualties Since Sept. 11 as Flamingo Reno Closes
23rd
October Connecticut
Source: Salt Lake Tribune/Washington Post
Casinos, Colleges Comfortable
Together
23rd
October Alberta, Canada
Source: Miami Herald & Yahoo/Canadian Press
Alberta maintains casino
moratorium, reduces gaming sites
Alberta opens door to electronic
bingo, plans to lift casino moratorium
The province will cap VLT's
at 6,000 and intends to reduce the number of outlets 10 to 15% from the
present 1,260.
23rd
October Detroit, Michigan
Source: Nola.com/AP - Oct 21st
Background
checks result in one in five being dismissed
23rd
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
PDS Gaming Corporation Reports
Strong Third Quarter Earnings
22nd
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Tower
at DI to go quietly
Wynn
wrapping up design of Le Reve
22nd
October Ontario, Canada
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Niagara hits the jackpot
as construction of new casino under way
22nd
October California
Source: The Desert Sun
California
to reconsider corporate ownership of card clubs
21st
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Competing
gaming shows leave top executive unimpressed
Global Gaming Expo and World
Gaming Congress and Expo are now over. Which show will survive?. It will
perhaps depend very much upon how the AGA members who attended both shows
this year decide to book for 2002.
21st
October Las Vegas
Source: Press Plus, LVRJ & RGJ
Wynn plans ‘dream’ resort
for Las Vegas
Wynn
can't mask his zeal - Developer shares his vision for planned Le Reve resort
Casino
developer Steve Wynn talks about latest Vegas project
21st
October New York State
Source: Yahoo/New York Times
In
Albany, Getting Serious About Casinos
20th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
15th Annual World Gaming
Congress and Expo a Huge Success
19th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Remote
casino gambling technology is advancing
Station Casinos subsidiary
GameCast Live LLC has developed a system that may possibly allow the playing
of live table games & slots from a customers hotel room.
19th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Wynn:
Resort will be Le Reve
The historic Desert Inn
that was bought and then closed by Steve Wynn will provide the site for
"Le Reve" - French for "the dream".
19th
October Kansas City, Missouri
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
National Center for Responsible
Gaming Appoints New Board Members
18th
October Ontario, Canada
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Ontario Lottery and Gaming
Corporation
The OLGC is holding a news
conference on the 22nd to mark the start of construction of the new Niagara
Casino Complex.
18th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
AGA Awards Dinner Raises
More Than $175,000 for Problem Gambling Research: Funds to Benefit National
Center for Responsible Gaming
18th
October Nevada
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Nevada
regulators endorse Fitzgeralds casino deal
18th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Alliance Gaming Announces
Nevada Gaming Commission Gives Final Theme Approval for Popeye® Game
17th
October Nevada
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Official:
No states allow Web gaming - Old state laws may stymie Nevada companies'
plans for Internet wagering
17th
October Connecticut
Source: TheDay.com & The Citizen Online
Despite
difficult times, local casinos are booming
Casinos
increase income in September, despite attacks
The worlds two largest casinos
Foxwoods and the expanded Mohegan Sun's slots won $68 million and $54 million
respectively in September. Total slot handle was a remarkable $1.48 Billion.
Table game revenues are not made public.
17th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
Reports Third-Quarter Results
The 60 year old company
posted third-quarter revenues of $1.05 billion, up 10.7 percent. Harvey's
Casino resorts revenues being included following the takeover concluded
on July 31st.
16th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Alliance Gaming, Playboy
Enterprises International Announce Licensing Agreement for Series of Playboy
Slots
16th
October Louisiana
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Pinnacle Entertainment Is
Selected to Receive Final License By Louisiana Gaming Control Board for
Lake Charles Project
15th
October Online Advertising
Source: Direct Marketing News
Harrah's
Bets on Increased Online Marketing
15th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Boyd Gaming Reports Third
Quarter Results
15th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Shuffle Master Named One
of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies in America
14th
October Mississippi
Source: Biloxi Sun Herald
Operators bank on goofy
slots
A look at the new themed
slots that debuted at G2E. In the US alone some 100,000 slots will be replaced
this year.
14th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
New Gaming Technology and
the Future of Slots Focus of Two Seminar Series Tuesday
14th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Strip
resorts rehiring some workers on part-time basis
13th
October Reno
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Principal
in purchase of Flamingo Reno had license problem
13th
October Las Vegas
Source: Northern Light/Business Wire
Paul-Son
Gaming Reports First Quarter Results
12th
October Nevada
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Aristocrat Launches New
Progressive CASH EXPRESS Platform
12th
October Southern US
Source: Miami Herald
'Skill' beats odds in gambling
laws
Story that reveals what
happened to around 36,000 video poker machines after they were declared
illegal in South Carolina.
12th
October Atlantic City
Source: PressPlus.com/Joe Wienert
Affirmative action rules
for casinos tossed out
Preserving payouts for players
- Rule change would forbid casinos from ‘removing’ jackpots
Two interesting stories,
the second on how casinos in AC have been allowed to remove or decrease
progressive jackpots since 1992.
12th
October Nevada
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Gamblers
losing more to nickel slot machines
Of the $825 million win
during August for Nevada casinos, $126 million came from 5 cent denominated
machines. Up 25% on 2000.
12th
October Education &
Management training Source: Las Vegas Sun
Critics:
Casino courses lag behind occupational growth
11th
October Ontario, Canada
Source: The National Post
Casino
Windsor cuts workforce by 12% - 600 part-time employees to be laid off
on Oct 13th
11th
October Nevada
Source: Yahoo UK Finance/Reuters
Nevada casino win up in
August, plunge seen in Sept.
Casino win throughout Nevada
was up 1.2% to $825 million in August. The Las Vegas Strip won $411 million
and Downtown $56.6 million.
11th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun & Las Vegas review Journal
Researcher
says Vegas' mob past has been overblown
Author:
Hughes' memos show he knew risks of radioactive movie site
11th
October Arizona
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Tucson's Casino Del Sol
Opens to the Public
The 70,000 square feet property
owned by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe has 500 ticket-in/ticket-out slot machines
and 12 poker tables.
11th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Alliance Gaming Reports
First Quarter Earnings of $0.32 Per Share
11th
October Las Vegas
Source: TheDeal.com
Tables
turned on Aladdin Gaming
11th
October Louisiana
Source: NJ.com/AP
Concerns
raised about all three casino applicants
The Louisiana Gaming Control
Board is interviewing applicants for the 15th and final Riverboat license
in the state.
10th
October British Columbia,
Canada Source: Northern Light/Market News Publishing
Great
Canadian Corp - Opening of New Flagship Property
10th
October Ontario, Canada
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Casino Windsor - Difficult
times, difficult decisions
Windsor now competes for
custom with the three Detroit casinos. Following the increased security
implemented at the US - Canadian border the property has seen a severe
drop off in business.
10th
October Sports Betting
Source: Northern Light/Ascribe News
Book
by University of Nevada History Professor Takes Exhaustive Look at Sports
Betting in America
10th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
'Strictly Slots' Awards
216 Honors To Harrah's Entertainment Casinos
10th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
IGT to Provide SAS™ Protocol
as Gaming Association Standard
10th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/AP
Vegas
Resort Hotels Nearly Full
10th
October Sacramento, California
Source: Sacremento Bee
Betting on 16th street:
Couple spend $3.5 million to open cardroom
9th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Riviera
poker room folds hand - Poor financial performance leads to closure
9th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Panelist
urges women in gaming to be aggressive
9th
October Problem gambling
Source: HealthSurfing.com - Oct 5th.
Gambling Blocker: Brain
drug may help curb urge to gamble
If it works, doctors in
the US could well be dealing out Naltrexone tablets to gamblers.
9th
October Reno
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Tarnished
river pictured as Reno-Sparks jewel
8th
& 9th October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Indian Gaming Featured at
Upcoming 15th Annual World Gaming Congress and Expo; Several Thousand Tribal
Attendees Expected October 17-19
World Gaming Congress and
Expo to Present Free Seminar for Laid-Off Casino Industry Workers
Website: www.worldgamingcongress.com
9th
October Torrance, California
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Seiko Instruments Introduces
"Seiko Secure" Program Designed Exclusively for Casino Industry
9th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Opens in Las Vegas with the Exhibition ''Masterpieces and Master Collectors''
8th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/BW Sportswire
Caesars Palace Sports Book
Offers Michael Jordan Wagering Propositions
8th
October Mexico
Source: Biloxi Sun Herald
Mexico
sees new push to legalize casinos
8th
October Atlantic City
Source: Pressplus.com
A.C. not envying Las Vegas
these days
7th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Panel
of experts rates best, worst of Las Vegas casinos
- MGM Mirage, Coast Resorts draw praise for customer service.
7th
October Mississippi
Source: Biloxi Sun Herald
Casino
revenue helps offset taxpayers' expense
7th
October Ontario
Source: Toronto Star Online
Do
kids gamble? Do you wanna bet?
Are hand held Blackjack
& Poker games in the Sears catalogue that are advertised as suitable
children as young as 8 educating the gamblers of tomorrow?.
7th
October Louisiana
Source: Daytona Beach News Journal
Program
lets students discover the long odds of gambling
80 million to 1 - winning
the Poweball lottery. 2 million to 1 - being killed by a lighting strike.
6th
October British Columbia
Source: Northern Light/CCN Newswire
Great
Canadian Casinos Inc.: Casino Opens in Coquitlam
The 35,000 sq ft property
will be GCC's sixth community casino in British Columbia.
6th
October Michigan
Source: Philadelphia Daily News
New Jersey cheat craps out
in Mich.
6th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Casino
security comforting uneasy visitors
6th
October Reno
Source: Washington Post
Park
Place Selling Flamingo Reno
6th
October New Jersey
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
An Announcement from The
Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey: Compulsive Gamblers Income
Grows, Along With Their Debt
5th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/AP
Guggenheim
to Open 2 Vegas Museums
5th
October Mexico
Source: Houston Chronicle - Oct 3rd
Mexican
tourism may look to casinos
Casino gambling has been
illegal in Mexico since 1939. Betting is allowed at horse and dog tracks,
Cockfights and Jai Alai.
5th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Alliance Gaming Signs Contract
With Mystic Lake to Provide Bally's SDS® Slot Management System
Alliance Gaming Announces
Nevada Gaming Control Board Unanimously Recommends Theme Approval of Popeye®
Game
4th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Reuters
Mood at Vegas convention
subdued but upbeat
4th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Park
Place interested in bankrupt property
4th
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Study:
Casino workers at risk of gambling - Employees' addictive behavior chronicled
4th
October US
Source: Scientific American
Casinos
More Often Lead to Losses than to Economic Development
The study was published
in a special edition of Managerial and Decision Economics - January to
May 2001. PDF versions of all the papers may be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/issuetoc?ID=84504218
4th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/AP
Struggling Las Vegas Resort
Is Sued
4th
October New Jersey
Source: PressPlus.com
Sept. win dips at A.C. casinos
The city's 12 casinos won
$354.2 million in September a decline of 6.3% from 2000. Slot win was $264
million and Table games $94 million a percentage split of 74/26.
4th
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Reuters
Slot machines take on new
looks, sounds, smells
A look at the new slots
making their debut at G2E with celebrity theming taking center stage.
3rd
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Opening Day at Global Gaming
Expo a Grand Success!
Link to Exhibition opening
day photos: http://www.einzig.com/g2e
3rd
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun/AP
Celebrity
slots gaining popularity
3rd
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
New
gaming convention looks like success despite attack aftermath
3rd
October Las Vegas &
Sydney Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Harrah's Commits to Aristocrat's
CASH EXPRESS Jackpot Systems
3rd
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
Las Vegas Convention Business
Still Strong At Sands Expo & Convention Center
2nd
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Reuters
US Casino jets working to
bring back high rollers
2nd
October Atlantic City
Source: PressPlus.com
Casino gambling failing
to reclaim public favor
A look at the AGA's annual
survey that details revenues and employment statistics from 735 commercial
and tribal casinos in 30 US states.
Attacks hit casino workers
in the wallet
2nd
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Casino
security remains visible - Vehicle, ID checks make tourists feel safe
Casino
industry health touted - Lobbyist for national group says image of gambling
has improved - American Gaming Association President
Frank Fahrenkopf speaking at the Global Gaming Exhibition.
2nd
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Reuters
Whoopi
Goldberg humours Las Vegas convention crowd
2nd
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Reuters
IGT sees limited long-term
effects from attacks
MGM
Mirage Cuts 6,000 Jobs Since Sept 11
Harrah's weathers downturn
with diversity
2nd
October Las Vegas
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Aladdin
future up in the air after filing
2nd
October Nevada
Source: Las Vegas Sun & Las Vegas Review Journal
Gaming
chairman selected
Guinn
picks panel chief
The new chairman of the
5 member Nevada Gaming Commission is Peter Bernhard. He was chosen by Govenor
Kenny Guinn and replaces Brian Sandoval who resigned in August.
1st
October Las Vegas
Source: CBS Marketwatch
Las
Vegas reels from terror attacks - Gaming industry convention however is
oversubscribed
1st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
The Mystery of the Sphinx
Returns to Atronic
1st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/Business Wire
WMS Gaming Premieres New
Branded Participation Games
1st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
IGT to Provide SAS™ Protocol
as Gaming Association Standard
The SAS™ protocol provides
a method for gaming machines to securely communicate data to a central
monitoring system.
1st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
Players Network Announces
Launch of Multimedia Website And Webcast of Gaming Industry Events
1st
October Las Vegas
Source: Yahoo/PRNewswire
MGM MIRAGE Expects Significantly
Lower Third Quarter Results
Station Casinos Comments
On Third Quarter Business Trends
1st
October Atlantic City
Source: The Washington Post
Tourists
gamble closer to home - Business is brisk at casinos not dependent on air
travel
In Atlantic City just 3%
of visitors arrive by air. In Las Vegas the total is over 50%.
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