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Bally to provide gaming devices to Italian lottery

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Bally Technologies will provide more than 5,000 gaming devices and systems to Italy's video lottery program after announcing an additional agreement with Italian concessionaire Lottomatica Videolot Rete. Under the deal, Bally will provide the company with 800 slot machine-like devices. Las Vegas-based Bally has a large presence in the Italian market as a provider of gambling devices for the new video-lottery program being implemented in public venues...read more

Player participation up at WSOP

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Player participation in the first 11 events at the World Series of Poker is up 2.5 percent over last year.Through Monday, 10,624 players signed up to play in the tournament's initial events, up slightly from 10,358 players who competed in the same 11 events a year ago.One event, a no-limit hold'em heads-up challenge, increased the buy-in from $10,000 to $25,000 and drew 128 players, half of what the event drew in 2010...read more

Duhamel ready for WSOP encore

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Unlike his American counterparts, defending World Series of Poker champion Jonathan Duhamel didn't see his online wagering activities curtailed by the U.S. government's crackdown on Internet gaming providers.A resident of the Montreal suburb of Boucherville, Quebec, Duhamel is Canadian...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Top-10 other things to do in Las Vegas during the WSOP

With the World Series of Poker underway at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, many poker players are making a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to take a shot in the world's most famous poker series.Anyone who has been to the WSOP before knows that it can become an all-encompassing endeavor...read more

Pennsylvania casino targets Asian market

BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania -- During a tour of Pennsylvania casinos, Credit-Suisse gaming analyst Joel Simkins called the Las Vegas Sands Corp. owned Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem a “mini Macau.”The term seemed apropos.Las Vegas Sands is the dominant U.S.-based gaming operator in Macau with three resorts and several others in various stages of development.So it’s not surprising the casino operator would target New York City’s Chinese population and market the Sands Bethlehem to that populous customer base.The property, about a 90-minute drive from New York City, recently opened a new 300-room hotel and is building an outlet mall...read more

Gaming industry turns eyes to Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois -- Illinois traveled from afterthought to red hot on the gaming expansion scale in a matter of days last week. Still to be answered, however, is how gaming will play out in the state. Will Illinois become the next Pennsylvania, a case study for casino expansion where revenues have grown more than 54 percent in two years? Or will Illinois become the next Ohio, where political infighting halted casino construction and could sink the state's gaming potential? No one has the answer. But what is certain is that Gov...read more

Does withdrawal without replacement change your expectation?

Pretend you’re at a slot machine when a message pops onto the screen saying you and three other lucky patrons have been chosen to participate in a free drawing for cash prizes. You check with your host and learn that the game involves five envelopes, each containing one of $5,000, $2,500, $1,000, $500, and $100...read more

Macau gaming revenues hit $3 billion in May

MACAU -- The opening of a new resort sent Macau's gaming revenues in May, hitting $3 billion for the first time.According to figures released Wednesday by gaming authorities in the special administrative region, Macau casinos' gaming revenues jumped 42 percent over May 2010 and 19 percent above April's previous one-month record.Macau casinos, including properties operated by Las Vegas Sands Corp., Wynn Resorts Ltd., and MGM Resorts International, collected 24.3 billion patacas, which translated into $3 billion in U.S...read more