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Station land buy faces scrutiny

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Station Casinos has spent the past few years purchasing dozens of large and small land parcels surrounding the Wild Wild West on Tropicana Avenue west of Interstate 15, compiling a site exceeding 70 acres on which the casino operator plans to develop a massive gaming and entertainment complex. However, a 2-acre location on the northern end of the site, near the intersection of Harmon and Polaris avenues, caused Station Casino executives to spend some time Thursday morning in front of Nevada gaming regulators. Station Casinos entered an agreement to buy The Men's Club, a topless bar, which will be closed once the transaction is completed...read more

Casino MonteLago operators take step forward

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Operators of the Casino MonteLago in Lake Las Vegas, who have been running the only gaming establishment in the upscale community for the past three months on a temporary basis, took a step toward permanent control Thursday. The Gaming Control Board, which let two of the principals of Las Vegas PDS Gaming take over the casino in June to keep the property open, unanimously recommended the operators keep the location following a 15-minute hearing...read more

Top-10 poker player nicknames

10.) Paul "Eskimo" Clark He may not be the most famous player on the list, but he looks the part and he continued playing the in a 2007 World Series of Poker $5,000 Razz event despite suffering three mini strokes. Clutching the WSOP tournament table to prevent officials from removing him late in the event, Clark added to his mysterious mystique and forever cemented his nickname in the annals of poker badass...read more

The Reel Life

Now that's a deal Last week, Nicola W from Birmingham became Jackpotjoy's third biggest Deal or No Deal Jackpot winner, bagging £458,548! "I'm still in shock -- I've only told my Mother so far, Nicola said." I don't know where to start...read more

UltimateBet's Roshambo is plenty of fun

The original settler of the "who sits shotgun debate" is now available for online play at UltimateBet. Based off of the classic game of rock paper scissors, this fun-filled game comes in both real-money and play-money versions with sit-n-gos available for those who want to play roshambo tournament style. The simple-to-use UltimateBet interface allows players to select their roshambo weapon with an easy mouse click and offers animated graphics for those who want to see their rock crush their opponent's scissors...read more

PartyGaming powering ITV casinos

PartyGaming is providing ITV with branded online casino, poker, bingo, sports betting rooms. ITV is the largest commercial TV network in the U.K. The games can be accessed through ITV.com. ITV's poker room, powered by PartyPoker, features ITV's Friends Reunited brand...read more

Full Tilt adds speedy deposit and withdrawal method

Full Tilt Poker has added Gatorpay to its list of deposit and withdrawal methods. "Gatorpay is one of the fastest methods to transfer money into your Full Tilt Poker account," the site says on its Web site. Gatorpay is a prepaid phone card that works directly with your checking account...read more

Highlights from Tel Aviv, August 2007: I want to marry a Jew

I have a new favorite city. Forget Costa Rica. Forget the Swedes. Enough with the French Canadians. I want to marry a Jew. Tel Aviv is the most incredible place I have visited in my entire life. Sure, I might have more friends in Tel Aviv than in all other cities combined, but I still believe Tel Aviv is a very, very special place and absolutely one of a kind...read more

Sands, Wynn get boost from Macau

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Interest in the growing Macau casino market fueled investors' actions regarding shares of two gaming operators during August. The stock prices of other companies weren't so lucky. Las Vegas Sands Corp., which opened the $2.4 billion Venetian Macau on Tuesday, and Wynn Resorts Ltd., which reported better-than-expected earnings in early August, recorded double-digit increases in their average daily share prices during the month. The jump by the two companies was enough to move an index that tracks the average daily price of six casino operators and three slot machine makers upward when comparing August with July. The average daily stock price of gambling equipment maker Bally Technologies was the only other gaming company tracked in the index to record an increase in its average daily August stock price. Shares of Las Vegas Sands averaged $97.77 on the New York Stock Exchange during August, 20 percent higher than in July...read more

PokerStars offers instant deposit method

PokerStars, the largest online poker room still accepting U.S. players, recently unveiled its newest depositing option – Instant eChecks – to a limited number of American players. Instant eChecks represents the first instant depositing option since NETeller stopped offering its popular INSTAcash service and pulled out of the U.S...read more