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Howard Stutz Gaming Guru - Page 332Station Casinos to Develop North Las Vegas Hotel-Casino21 December 2005
Station Casinos announced Tuesday that the company had been chosen to develop a gaming complex on 40 acres in Aliante, a master-planned community in North Las Vegas.
The project, dubbed Aliante Station is expected to break ground next year and finish construction in 2008.
Station Casinos told gaming ... (read more)
Coast Casinos Sticks to Successful Theme for Newest Property19 December 2005
Guests entering the $600 million South Coast on Thursday night might be struck by a sense of familiarity.
The South Coast is similar in layout to its sister property, the Suncoast, which caters to a Summerlin audience. It also contains many of the accompaniments longtime Coast customers have come to expect.
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Locals Gambling: Say Hello to South Coast19 December 2005
The meeting might have taken more time if they had decided to order appetizers.
When Bill Boyd and Michael Gaughan got together in early 2004 over dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House to negotiate Boyd Gaming's $1.3 billion purchase of Gaughan's Coast Casinos, the discussion between the two gaming industry pioneers took all of 90 minutes.
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Casinos Defend Against 'Supernotes'16 December 2005
LAS VEGAS -- North Korean-produced 'supernotes' -- authentic looking but counterfeit $100 bills -- have infiltrated cashier cages of Strip casinos but are not causing widespread problems, federal and state authorities said.
"They have been passed around, but it's infrequent and there are only a small ... (read more)
Biloxi Says No to Golden Nugget16 December 2005
BILOXI, Mississippi -- Plans by Houston-based Landry's Restaurants to bring a Golden Nugget-brand casino to hurricane-ravaged Biloxi, Miss., were rejected this week by the city's elected leaders.
Landry's Restaurant offered to lease the land for a Golden Nugget Casino, but the Biloxi City Council ... (read more)
Casino Closing: Lady Luck Running Out13 December 2005
The Lady Luck, downtown's third-largest casino, will close Feb. 12 for a year-long remodeling and permanently lay off 684 workers.
The Henry Brent Co., which has been operating the Lady Luck since 2003 and purchased the property in April, will shut down the 743-room hotel-casino.
Lady Luck executives informed some employees of the plans late Sunday night to close the casino. ... (read more)
Control Board Report: State Casino Win Sets Record12 December 2005
For the second time this year, Nevada casinos set a record for the most money ever won from customers in a single month, perplexing gaming analysts but fueling their bullish outlook on the Las Vegas economy.
Nevada casinos collected $1.06 billion from gamblers in October, according to totals released ... (read more)
Wynn Departs Singapore Bidding12 December 2005
Wynn Resorts Ltd. has withdrawn from bidding for one of the two proposed gaming-resort sites in Singapore because the Las Vegas-based casino operator cannot devote necessary resources to the project, company Chairman Steve Wynn said Friday.
With one casino under construction in Macau and a second Las ... (read more)
Nevadan At Work: Resort's TV Exposure Has Guests Asking Exec, 'Hey, Do I Know You?'12 December 2005
The spotlight came up when Joe Hasson arrived at Green Valley Ranch Resort.
Hasson was met by several television cameras when he started his job as the hotel-casino's general manager. It so happened that the Discovery Channel had scheduled to start filming its reality show "American Casino" on Hasson's ... (read more)
Official: Science Should Guide Problem Gambling Help7 December 2005
LAS VEGAS -- Science should guide future research in problem gambling, said an official for a national problem-gambling group that begins meeting today at Mandalay Bay.
Christine Reilly, executive director for the National Center for Responsible Gaming conference, said as research into problem ... (read more)
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