http://www.casinocitytimes.com Casino City Times is The Source for the latest gaming news, gaming strategy and gambling tips from the industry's leading experts. en-us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Robison.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/53638.html Sir, Love your articles and read them all. My question is and I know you have heard it before, but how can the RNG be what it is and yet the casino knows exactly what the payback is, 97.8, 98.6, 95.5, etc. over a certain period of time? How can something be random all through its play and still know what to hold for the casino's percentage? I... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Robison.CasinoCityTimes.com/articles/53638.html http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53705 LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Culinary Local 226 is asking Station Casinos' creditors to demand the Fertitta family and other insiders that profited from the buyout make "significant equity investments" to help the company emerge from bankruptcy, according to a union-sponsored report released Thursday. Station Casinos, however, called the report... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53705 http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53704 LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- There was never any doubt Thursday whether Nevada gaming regulators would approve a casino license for the centerpiece resort inside the $8.5 billion CityCenter development. However, all five members of the Nevada Gaming Commission said they had reviewed a 10-inch thick notebook of background information prepared by... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53704 http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53702 LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Slot machine manufacturers didn't hold back at the Global Gaming Expo. Games with high-definition animated characters and 3-D graphics, touch-screen technology and Xbox-type or similar video game features were on display in the booths of the major slot machine makers. Slot machines built around familiar themes and... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53702 http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53701 LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment hopes to have a new chief executive officer in place "within the next 90 days" company officials said this week. Interim CEO John Giovenco, a member of the casino operator's board of directors and the former president of Hilton Gaming Corp., told Morgan Joseph gaming analyst Justin... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53701 http://Pilarski.casinocitytimes.com/articles/53699.html Dear Mark: If a machine has just paid out a jackpot, would you recommend moving to another machine being that the machine now has to recoup its losses? Dale M. Far too many players erroneously believe that any machine that has just hit a jackpot won't hit another anytime soon because the machine has to re-prime the pump and win back... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Pilarski.casinocitytimes.com/articles/53699.html http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53695 LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Las Vegas gaming companies will need to look for new markets to expand to because the building boom that took place locally over the past 20 years won't be replicated, Boyd Gaming Corp. Chief Executive Officer Keith Smith said Wednesday. "If you look out over the next 10 years, you could probably count on one hand the... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53695 http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53692 LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Longtime casino owner Michael Gaughan was inducted into the American Gaming Association Hall Of Fame on Wednesday for his four decades of leadership in the gaming industry. Gaughan joins his father, El Cortez founder Jackie Gaughan, in the hall. They are the third father-son team to be inducted, joining Sam and Bill... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://casinocitytimes.com/article.cfm?contentandcontributorid=53692 http://Tamburin.casinocitytimes.com/articles/53616.html I've written about my 91-year old father-in-law Pete's adventures in video poker before. He is a converted slot player whom I taught video poker on my computer using commercially available video poker training software. He also brings his video poker strategy cards with him to the casino when he plays, just in case. Since he started playing video... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://Tamburin.casinocitytimes.com/articles/53616.html http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/53689.html One year ago this week, Joe Cada celebrated his 21st birthday. He went out to a local bar in his hometown of Shelby Township, Mich. to savor his first legal cocktail with a group of friends and it was a satisfying feeling for Cada, but not for the reasons you may think. "I was excited to be 21, but not because I could go to a bar," Cada told... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://garytrask.casinocitytimes.com/articles/53689.html