Comedian Lewis Black Performs at The Mirage May 23-24
Lewis Black, best known for his regular segment ‘Back in Black’ on Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,’ will perform his hilarious stand-up routine for the first time inside the Terry Fator Theatre at The Mirage May 23 at 10 p.m. and May 24 at 9 p.m.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Gaming Stocks Hit Lowest Level Since 2003
Gaming stocks sunk to levels during February that have not been visited since President Bush declared "mission accomplished" and Arnold Schwarzenegger was making movies rather than governing California. The average daily share prices of nine of the 10 casino operators and slot machine manufacturers charted by Las Vegas-based financial consultant Applied Analysis slipped in value during the month. Six of the companies, led by MGM Mirage's nearly 52 percent decline compared to January, recorded double-digit drops.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Melco Crown VIP Gambling Rises in Macau
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd., a casino venture between Australia's richest man and gambling billionaire Stanley Ho's son, rose the most in almost four months in Nasdaq trading after posting a narrower loss and saying China may ease limits on travel to Macau.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Vdara at MGM Mirage CityCityCenter Now Accepting Reservations
This October, MGM MIRAGE will introduce its newest luxury boutique hotel on the world-famous Strip: Vdara Hotel. Vdara is now accepting reservations for Oct. 1, 2009 and beyond.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
M Resort Set to Stand out From the Rest of the Pack
With live cooking shows, personalized service and an 'old Las Vegas' mentality, M Resort plans to stand out from the rest of the Vegas casinos.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
M Resort Spa Casino in Las Vegas Ready to Open Doors Sunday
M Resort Spa Casino will open to the public at 10 p.m., Sunday, March 1. Situated 400 feet higher in elevation than other resort-casinos, the M Resort has various amenities that will draw locals and tourists to experience the new property.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Pennsylvania Casinos Want Table Games Legalized
Yes to table games at state casinos, but no to video poker machines in thousands of bars and clubs statewide. That was the view today of Timothy Wilmott, president of Penn National Gaming Inc., which runs a racetrack/casino 20 miles northeast of here plus several other casinos in other states.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Deusche Bank Discusses CityCenter Financing with MGM
MGM Mirage and Deutsche Bank are in discussions that could give the casino company additional financing it needs to complete its CityCenter project in exchange for operating or taking ownership of the troubled Cosmopolitan project, sources said.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thunder Valley Casino in California Continues Hotel Expansion
Thunder Valley Casino in South Placer County will start up construction again after abruptly shutting down work on a one billion dollar expansion project.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Schedule Released
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, today announced the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final Season Five schedule – Europe's largest and richest seven-day poker extravaganza. The PokerStars Monte Carlo EPT Grand Final will run April 27-May 3, offering fourteen separate events making the Grand Final the most exciting poker festival ever held in Europe.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Heads-Up Poker Championship Competition is Heavy
Get your tournament brackets ready! NBC's 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the granddaddy of all heads-up poker tournaments, will take place once again at Caesars Palace Las Vegas on March 5-8. Now in its fifth year, this year's event will feature an array of many of the greatest poker players in the world.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Station Casinos Receives Offer From Boyd Gaming Corp
Boyd Gaming Corp. has made a $950 million offer to acquire a significant portion of locals gaming rival Station Casinos, the company announced Monday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
MGM's CityCenter in Las Vegas Now Accepting Hotel Reservations
MGM Mirage will begin accepting hotel reservations Monday morning for rooms at two of the $9.1 billion CityCenter's properties, the Vdara hotel and condominium tower, and Aria, the project's centerpiece hotel-casino.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
California Slot Player Wins Almost $3 Million at Table Mountain Casino
It's not just the Oscars where the stars came out to shine today, Central California's Table Mountain Casino had their own star today, the winner of The World Poker Tour Jackpot, winning the largest cash slot machine jackpot ever paid out at Table Mountain Casino and one of the largest in California! This lucky player won $2,883,403.62.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Hard Rock Las Vegas Expansion Benefits From Economic Slowdown
Hard Rock hotel-casino construction project has benefited from the economic slowdown and plans to open some components ahead of schedule this year. The Hard Rock Hotel's $760 million expansion is capitalizing on the slowing construction industry by hiring some of the best construction workers and tradesmen others have let go.
Monday, February 23, 2009
M Resort Las Vegas Attempting to Generate 1990 Rio Buzz
Longtime Las Vegas residents will remember the incredible buzz the Rio generated when it opened in 1990. Nearly two decades later M Resort is trying to generate the same buzz at the soon-to-open Vegas Destination.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Pennsylvania Ready for Test Run
The Meadows Racetrack & Casino is set on opening its permanent casino with more than 3,000 slot machines in April, now that it has scheduled a test run under state regulators' supervision.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Rio Offers Real-time Mobile Promotion Alerts to Guests
The Rio is testing an opt-in mobile marketing campaign that sends customers text message alerts for real-time promotions to their cell phone during their stay at the hotel-casino.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
iPhone and iPod Card Counter Download on Watch by Nevada Agents
Users of iPhones beware -- state gaming agents are watching you. California gaming authorities tipped off their Nevada counterparts to a blackjack card-counting program that can be used on either the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch portable music player.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Massachusetts Gambling Supporters Gain Political Advantage
Casino supporters felt like they hit the jackpot yesterday after a staunch foe, state Rep. Daniel E. Bosley (D-North Adams), was ousted as chairman of the House committee that oversees gambling.
Friday, February 13, 2009
New eBay Video Slot Brings to Life Everyone's Favorite Internet Marketplace
IGN creates stunning new eBay video slot machine. With five vertical, 40-inch big screen reels this video slot is sure to establish a powerful presence.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thunder Valley Casino Fires Top Management During Halted Expansion
The top managers of Thunder Valley Casino were fired and the casino's general manager, Scott Garawitz, was placed on administrative leave. Day-to-day management of the casino will be taken over by Las Vegas-based Station Casinos, the management company that has operated the casino for the tribe during construction and the opening of the casino in June 2003.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Class-action Lawsuit Against Venetian on Overtime Pay
A Las Vegas attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of current and former banquet servers who claim the Venetian resort failed to pay them all of the overtime wages they are due.
Attorney Leon Greenberg filed the suit Jan. 29 in Clark County District Court on behalf of former Venetian server Steven Csomos and potentially more than 100 other employees.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Tropicana Seeks Image Makeover
Can the firm that helped Starbucks launch the Frappucino-the Coke of blended coffee drinks-help the owner of the Tropicana hotel and casino? Tropicana Entertainment, which has some work to do in the image department, hopes so.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
National Heads-Up Poker Championship Returns to NBC in March
Sixty four of the world's top poker players are going "all in" at the 5th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship on March 6-8 in Las Vegas. Heads-Up brings a who's who of the poker world to the Caesars Palace Poker Tournament Room to compete in its distinctive, bracket-style head-to-head format for $1.5 million in combined prize money.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009