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Top-10 WSOP events

If you're making travel plans to visit Las Vegas this summer for the World Series of Poker, the big question is which events should you go see. In this week's Top-10 list, we pick our favorites. 10. Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event 53, July 1-2) This is a really fun event to take in because it is actually three tournaments in one...read more

Gavin Griffin knows poker -- and a few other things too

Gavin Griffin used to be that guy. You know, the kind of person you have pity for. The one who comes to your weekly poker game and manages to lose each and every time the group gets together. The one who, regardless of what kind of cards he's holding or how smart (or foolishly) he plays, always has the short stack and eventually goes home a loser...read more

Jurors urged to award $100 million

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Jurors who have sat through more than five weeks of testimony in a Clark County District Court civil trial were asked Wednesday to award Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen up to $100 million for his efforts in helping Las Vegas Sands Corp...read more

Education funding: Casinos split over tax plan

and Howard Stutz LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Voters in November are likely to be asked whether they want the Legislature to increase hotel room taxes to alleviate the state's budget woes and help schools, but the big casino companies remain sharply divided about the proposal. The state teachers union agreed late Monday not to go forward with a ballot initiative seeking voter approval to raise gaming taxes in exchange for three major gaming companies' support for raising the room tax. But while Wynn Resorts, Harrah's Entertainment and Station Casinos were on board with the deal, which was brokered with the help of Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, the chief executives of MGM Mirage and Boyd Gaming Corp...read more

CityCenter reveals resort name

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- MGM Mirage on Monday officially revealed the name of CityCenter's 61-story, 4,004-room centerpiece resort: Aria. Designed by noted architectural firm Pelli Clarke Pelli, Aria's two curved glass hotel towers and its 150,000-square-foot casino space are expected to open in December 2009. The name leaked last week while MGM Mirage officials were celebrating the topping off of Vdara, the first of the $9.2 billion CityCenter's five major hotel and residential projects...read more

Heard it on the river: Big-name event flood upcoming Tunica calendar

Traffic is reportedly down a bit in TUNICA TOWNE but you would never know it with the host of attention-getting events taking place there over the next several weeks. The professionals say it is better to advertise in down times rather than slash and burn the promo budget and we totally agree...read more

MGM at Foxwoods opens with a flourish

Mashantucket, Conn. — Two years ago, when Aziz Gamal visited the site of the future MGM Grand at Foxwoods, he saw nothing but a pile of dirt and a blueprint that had unlimited potential. When the MGM Mirage President and CEO of Hospitality returned this past weekend for the gala grand opening of the new $700-million venue, he saw something that had a very familiar feel to it. "It looks a lot like home," Gamal said as he gazed at the gold and glitter surrounding him inside the 30-story glass tower on Friday afternoon...read more

Juror dismissed from Sands trial

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- A monthlong civil trial that has seen testimony from the world's 12th richest man and several current and former Macau government officials took another twist this week: A juror was dismissed for calling an attorney in the case an "asshole." The outburst came late Thursday afternoon in Clark County District Court during testimony in a lawsuit brought by Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen against Las Vegas Sands Corp...read more

The Strip: A drive for diversity

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Damon Tooles operated a successful contracting business in Detroit when he learned about MGM Mirage's corporate supported diversity initiative that gave opportunities to minority-owned businesses. Tooles set up a branch of his Tooles Contracting Group in Las Vegas in the fall of 2006, earned his Nevada contractors license within seven months and was ready to work...read more

Inside Gaming: Blackjack win dip? Don't look at us

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Maybe those crazy kids from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology held a class reunion. Gaming analysts had trouble explaining why blackjack revenues on the Strip fell almost 18 percent during March. Gamblers wagered $746.6 million on the game, 1.3 percent more than a year ago...read more