Featured Articles Archive - Page 241

February 2014 Featured Game report

As I wrote at the beginning of the year, I've decided to "spice up" my Featured Game responsibilities for Casino City. I am now keeping track of my results for each week, and will provide monthly, quarterly and a final annual report at the end of the year.As noted in my introductory story, my plan is to bet $1 of play money per line per spin, or as close to it as possible, until triggering the bonus round...read more

Nevada, Delaware sign online poker partnership

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Nevada and Delaware leaders signed a landmark agreement Tuesday that will join their states for online poker, potentially increasing payouts for residents who gamble while aiming to model how states might collaborate on an emerging economic opportunity.The Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement signed in Wilmington by Gov...read more

Full Tilt players to begin receiving their bankrolls

Several former Full Tilt Poker players have recently received some very good news.Nearly three years after Black Friday, when the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down Full Tilt and seized players' bankrolls from the website, players will begin to collect back their money...read more

The Cromwell on the Strip will open May 21

LAS VEGAS -- Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s $185 million renovation of a center Strip midmarket casino into The Cromwell, an upscale boutique hotel-casino, opens May 21, the gaming company announced Monday.The news follows the announcement last week that building’s central feature — a 65,000-square-foot rooftop nightclub, day-club and pool deck area overlooking the Strip and operated by Victor Drai — opens Memorial Day Weekend.The Cromwell is taking over the building that once housed the Barbary Coast and Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall at the northeast corner of the Strip and Flamingo Road.The property closed a year ago for the development, which will include a 188-room hotel, 40,000 square feet of casino space, a hotel lobby bar and lounge area, and a second floor restaurant overlooking the Strip and operated by television chef Giada De Laurentiis.The 260-seat restaurant, GIADA, is her first such venture is taking over second-floor space that once housed a hotel parking garage...read more

Top-10 reasons why poker is not like golf

Top-10 reasons poker will never be organized like golfEarlier this month, Dan Shak made news when he announced via Twitter that he wasn't going to be playing any more super high roller events that allowed more than one reentry."It just doesn't seem right that these events overshadow the main events where people have put their heart and soul on the line where skill is at least more than 50 percent of the game," Shak tweeted...read more

Singapore casinos produce $6 billion in gaming revenue in 2013; market still trails Las Vegas Strip

LAS VEGAS -- To use an Olympics reference, Las Vegas won the silver medal for the second straight year.Singapore’s two casinos experienced a 3.8 percent increase in gaming revenues during 2013, but it wasn’t enough to carry the island nation past the Strip.The Marina Bay Sands, which is owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp., and Genting Group’s Resorts World Sentosa produced a combined $6.077 billion in gaming revenues during the year, which fell short of the Strip’s $6.5 billion in 2013.Both markets were far behind Macau, the world’s largest gaming destination, which produced a record $45.2 billion in gaming revenues last year.Many analysts predicted Singapore’s two casinos, which opened in 2010, would eventually pass the Strip as the world’s No...read more

Former Boyd Gaming executive Chuck Ruthe dies

LAS VEGAS -- Boyd Gaming Corporation founder Bill Boyd owned a five-acre parcel of land along the Boulder Highway in the late 1970s that he thought would be the perfect site for a motel.He contacted his friend, real estate broker Chuck Ruthe, who then suggested he purchase an adjacent 11-acre parcel on the corner of Nellis Boulevard and the Boulder Highway...read more

Vegas slots soon will accept pre-paid debit cards

LAS VEGAS -- Prepaid debit cards — tied to a casino customer’s rewards account — have been approved for wagering on Nevada slot machines following changes in state gaming regulations.The Nevada State Gaming COntrol Board Gaming Commission voted 4-0 Thursday — Chairman Pete Bernhard was absent — to approve the amendments, which were backed by several gaming companies and recommended by Sightline Payments, a Las Vegas-based payment processing business.Attorney Dennis Neilander, representing Sightline, told the Gaming Commission the changes address concerns raised by the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, which has long fought the use of traditional credit cards on gaming devices.Neilander said monetary limits on the prepaid cards — also called prepaid access cards — are governed by the U.S...read more

Inside Gaming: Lots of raving, but little revenue

LAS VEGAS -- Lost in the heated rhetoric over the expansion of Internet gaming is a harsh reality.Legal online wagering has not been the financial windfall many analysts predicted.Initial returns from the three states that enacted Internet gambling laws are not overflowing the balance sheet.New Jersey’s online revenue is a letdown...read more

Deal Me In: I'm talkin' Quick Draw McGraw fast!

Dear Mark: I attend free slot tournaments when invited and wondered if there are any tips you can give to do well besides hitting the button quickly. Wayne S.The gist of any slot tournament, Wayne, works like this: Players either congregate in a specific room of the casino, or at the site on the casino floor holding the tournament...read more