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Top 10 casino openings, expansions and renovations

For as long as the gambling industry continues to construct, rearrange, improve and occasionally demolish buildings, we'll continue bring you the latest news. This edition features a swath of land changing owners, another swath finding its designated purpose in life, and of course, many openings...read more

Casino City's Friday Five: Celebration Edition

This week’s Friday Five provides plenty of reason to celebrate. We’ve got a new casino opening in the Pacific Northwest, much to the dismay of its too-close-for-comfort competitors, and a one-year anniversary bash in another casino-congested region on the east coast...read more

Top 10 tips for cash game poker players

As a follow-up to my recent article about poker tournament success, this week we discuss 10 essential things you should consider when playing cash games.10. Manage your moneyBankroll management is probably as well-known as the Texas Hold’em hand rankings or positions in poker, but very few players follow the right guidelines...read more

Casino City's Friday Five: Changes in Vegas edition

The Lucky Dragon. It's a mixed bag of news this week, featuring the gloomy reality of Lucky Dragon's (partial) closure as well as a couple of million-dollar stories. Oh, and one of the biggest providers of online poker is finally available in Italy...read more

Lucky Dragon Hotel & Casino shuts down gaming operations

The casino's eye-catching sculpture. On Thursday morning, Lucky Dragon Hotel & Casino announced it would be temporarily suspending its gaming and casino restaurant operations. The one-year-old casino – and the only prominently Asian-themed casino in Las Vegas, located just a block away from the Strip – has experienced some difficulty in attracting guests and remarked in a statement that it is "beginning the process of reorganization."The property's 204-room hotel and its gift shop will remain open, while the Cha Garden restaurant will offer a full bar during evenings and an enhanced food menu.The statement continues, "While this is a difficult decision, this repositioning paves the way for Lucky Dragon to establish new partnerships that will enhance the property's long-term positioning and provide a better guest experience."The closures, which come only six weeks before Chinese New Year Celebrations will bring thousands of Asian guests to Las Vegas, can't help but seem particularly melancholy...read more

Casino City's Top 10 most-read Top 10s of 2017

Around this time last year, we took a look at some of our most-read stories from the previous 12 months. Today, we're doing the same for 2017, looking fondly on our most popular pieces and bringing them back to the fore. As with the previous year, betting tips remained popular, as did lists of top 10 casinos...read more

Casino City's Friday Five: 2017's last edition

This is it: The last Friday Five before 2018 hits. It's been a long, difficult year, filled with trials and tribulations of all kinds, both within the gaming world and without. But we're leaving on a light note here by celebrating Las Vegas accomplishments, the first WSOP China champ and a fabulous new book from a poker pro.So take it easy this weekend...read more

Top 10 New Year's resolutions for poker players

Many of you will be making a list of New Year's resolutions in the coming days, so why not try to make some poker promises as well? Below are some of the most important things you can do in 2018 to improve your game and win more often at the poker table.Happy New Year!10...read more

Casino City's Friday Five: Luxury and jackpots edition

We're deep in the heart of the holidays, with Christmas coming up for many and New Year's approaching for all. Before you log off and enjoy a blissful few days of family, food and gifts, here are the five hottest stories from the last week.5...read more

'Advanced Concepts in No-Limit Hold'em' a boon for serious players

No sharks were harmed in the making of this cover. One of the less hyped offerings from D&B Poker this year was Hunter Cichy's Advanced Concepts in No-Limit Hold'em: A Modern Approach to Poker Analysis.In the absence of advanced poker players on staff, what with former associate editor Dan Podheiser having leveraged his skills into an actual career, the book sat around for a bit before anyone got up the courage to read it (it was published in June...read more