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Gaming Insider: The future of gaming is already here

LAS VEGAS -- Tables that resemble giant smart phones inside The Mirage and MGM Grand Las Vegas are the future of gaming.You just can’t gamble on them quite yet, at least not for real money.The InteractivePro tables, manufactured by an Australian company, have quickly developed a following from MGM Resorts International customers...read more

Inside Gaming: With its latest deals, Scientific Games is the new IGT - minus the baggage

LAS VEGAS -- Scientific Games Corporation is Nevada’s new International Game Technology — without the baggage.Over the past 18 months, the lottery provider spent $7.6 billion to acquire the gaming industry’s No. 2 and No. 3 slot machine manufacturers.Last month, Scientific Games said it will move its corporate headquarters from New York City to offices off the 215 Beltway...read more

Nevadan at Work: Affinity Gaming CEO finds happiness managing casinos in smaller markets

LAS VEGAS -- After managing casinos in exotic locales such as New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Uruguay, Michael Silberling opted to become CEO of a gaming company whose flagship properties are in the Interstate 15 community of Primm at the California-Nevada border and the Denver suburb of Black Hawk, Colo.And he couldn’t be happier.Silberling was named CEO of Las Vegas-based Affinity Gaming in August...read more

Full House Resorts selects new chief financial officer

LAS VEGAS -- Regional casino operator Full House Resorts, Inc. said it amended several credit agreements and selected a new chief financial officer as it moves forward following a recent management shake-up.The Las Vegas-based company, which owns one casino each in the Northern Nevada community of Fallon, Mississippi and Indiana, and manages a resort in Lake Tahoe, named longtime gaming executive Dan Lee as CEO in December...read more

Top-10 events to look forward to in the 2015 WSOP

The World Series of Poker announced its 2015 schedule last week, and poker players around the world started making plans to make their annual pilgrimage to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino to try their luck at winning the most coveted prize in the game: a WSOP bracelet.There are so many exciting events on the docket this year that it's hard to pick a top-10...read more

Deal Me In: Does the Golden Arm exist?

Dear Mark: I have read about people who are selling info about how to set dice. Is there anything to someone's ability to set dice and to throw them a certain way to improve their ability to throw desired numbers? On the other hand, are you convinced no matter how you "set" the dice that you will have a completely random roll? I think there must be something to dice setting, as some casinos do not let you set them...read more

Caesars new CEO to earn $1.8 million, eligible for bonus

LAS VEGAS -- Caesars Entertainment Corporation’s new chief executive will earn $1.8 million a year in salary, according a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Mark Frissora, who was named “CEO designee” by the casino operator on Wednesday, can also earn up to 150 percent of his base salary in bonus pay, has use of the company aircraft, and will receive “certain relocation benefits” for moving to Las Vegas, the SEC filing said.Frissora, 59, spent seven years as chairman and CEO of automobile and equipment rental car company Hertz Global Holdings...read more

Station Casinos to operate sportsbook at Sparks casino

LAS VEGAS -- Station Casinos, Inc. is extending its reach northward through an agreement to operate a sports book inside the Baldini’s Casino in Sparks.The location is the company’s second sports book operation outside its large and small casinos in the Las Vegas area...read more

Caesars CEO Loveman stepping down in wake of bankruptcy

LAS VEGAS -- Caesars Entertainment Corporation Chairman Gary Loveman will step down from the company's chief executive role on June 30 and will be replaced by the former chairman and CEO of Hertz Global Holdings, the casino giant announced Wednesday.In a statement Wednesday, Caesars said Mark Frissora, who spent seven years with the automobile and equipment rental car company, will be "CEO designee" until July 1, when he formally becomes CEO.The change comes less than a month after Caesars placed its largest operating unit into a pre-packaged bankruptcy to eliminate almost $10 billion in debt...read more

Inside Gaming: Macau, already reeling, faces possible total smoking ban

After implementing a partial casino smoking ban in October, Macau is contemplating a total prohibition on smoking in all areas of the region's gaming market.Talk about throwing gasoline on a raging inferno.Macau's casino industry is challenged, and that's an understatement.The market has had eight consecutive monthly gaming revenue declines...read more