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Dwellings sell well at CityCenter

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- If things continue ahead of schedule, Tony Dennis should be out of a job before the $7.8 billion CityCenter project opens in November 2009. Roughly 50 percent of CityCenter's nearly 2,650 high-end residential offerings have been claimed by buyers since MGM Mirage's $24 million sales pavilion on the Strip opened a year ago...read more

Top-10 poker hand nicknames named after people

10.) Dolly Parton Noun The pocket cards 9-5, either suited or offsuit. This hand name originates from the fact that celebrity songwriter Dolly Parton wrote the song "Nine to Five" and starred in a movie sharing the same name. 9.) Raquel Welch Noun The pocket cards 8-3, either suited or offsuit...read more

Mohegan Sun celebrates expansion project milestone

When you're spending nearly a billion dollars to expand your casino to the point where it will rank as one of the largest in the universe, you've earned the right to exult in every single milestone along the way. And that's exactly what the Mohegan Sun Casino did earlier this month as it made a major step towards completing Phase 1 of its $925 million Project Horizon expansion...read more

A Look Back at 2007

See also: Top Stories of 2006 The Best and Worst of 2006 A Glance at 2007 January January 2 - PartyGaming buys Empire Online's assets. January 3 - Italy awards interactive gambling licenses. January 11 - Pinnacle withdraws from the U.S...read more

AIM's First in 15: AsianLogic

London's Alternative Investment Market has just seen its first I-gaming float since before America passed the UIGEA. The bold company behind the float -- Hong Kong-based AsianLogic Limited -- sold shares for 112p on Dec. 28 and raised a total of £40.7 million...read more

New body language book might help in business, social decisions

For poker, Mike Caro started it all with his studies of the body language of poker. Years later, Joe Navarro and Phil Hellmuth dug into the subject deeper. Gamblers, businessmen, police interrogators, job interviewers, lawyers and military intelligence have applied many of the same principles for years...read more

Offer made for MGM Mirage shares

In an effort to jump-start the company's sagging stock price, MGM Mirage and joint venture partner Dubai World said Wednesday they are offering to buy up to 10 million shares of the casino operator's stock for between $75 and $80 a share. Dubai World, the investment arm of the Persian Gulf state of Dubai, now owns more than 19.5 million shares of MGM Mirage, which is approximately 6.7 percent of the casino company...read more

Insights: The US-Antigua WTO Settlement

Nearly five years have passed since Antigua first complained to the World Trade Organization about America's interactive gambling policy. As the case ensued, the WTO ruled that the United States gives preferential treatment to domestic service providers in violation of an international trade agreement, and it advised the country to bring its policy into conformity with the agreement...read more

Paddypower caught drinking Obama Kool-Aid

It doesn't happen often, but Irish sportsbook Paddypower got caught with its pants down. The popular online betting site decided Senator Barack Obama was a lock to win the Democratic nomination after winning the Iowa Caucus last week and began paying off bets on him Monday -- the day before Senator Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary. Paddypower sheepishly concedes on its election microsite that the decision to pay off Obama bets to win the Democratic nomination was "a little premature." But in an impressive piece of spin control, they're claiming credit for Clinton's victory. "Hillary Clinton must have taken the brash move to heart," Paddypower said on its Web site...read more

WMS Industries board adds new member

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Former Gaming Control Board member Bobby Siller was named on Monday to the board of directors of slot machine maker WMS Industries. Siller, 63, spent eight years on the Gaming Control Board, leaving Dec. 31, 2006, when his second four-year term expired...read more