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Howard Stutz Gaming Guru - Page 341Casinos, Lottery Scratch Together Alliance6 July 2005
A Las Vegas-based lottery and casino game designer has developed a scratch-off game that lets the two competing gambling disciplines serve the same customer.
While the game, LottoSino, is working in New Mexico under a four-month contract, its developer believes the idea could work in Nevada, which is one ... (read more)
Poker Popularity: Let's Make A Deal6 July 2005
Nearly two decades ago, when Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson and the late Stu Ungar were the undisputed kings of the poker tables, fans of the game coveted owning a tough-to-come-by, limited edition World Series of Poker jacket, emblazoned with the event's familiar logo, the Binion's Horseshoe trademark and a ... (read more)
Gaming Stocks Rebound in Quarter1 July 2005
After a rocky three months, gaming stocks closed 2005's second quarter on an uptick, a Las Vegas index showed. Both casino operators and equipment manufacturers showed increases in their average daily prices during June.
The Applied Analysis Gaming Index, a weighted average of nine local gaming stocks ... (read more)
Downtown Las Vegas: Barrick Sells Casino Stakes28 June 2005
Fifteen months after announcing plans to restore and re-create the ambience of downtown Las Vegas, Barrick Gaming said Monday it would sell its minority holdings in four casinos -- once the centerpiece of casino pioneer Jackie Gaughan's real estate portfolio -- to a privately owned international investment company.
... (read more)
Forum Told How Wynn Structure Came to Rise so High27 June 2005
When it was decided that a 170-foot man-made mountain would be designed to shield Wynn Las Vegas from the noise and bustle of the Strip, landscape architect Don Brinkerhoff had all of a day to show resort developer Steve Wynn what the conceptual model would look like.
Brinkerhoff, whose Newport ... (read more)
Study: Gambling Revenue Could Hit $100 Billion Soon22 June 2005
LAS VEGAS -- Revenue from legal casino gambling worldwide will top $100 billion by the end of the decade and Nevada's casino industry will continue to trump competition from American Indian tribes and regional gambling halls, PricewaterhouseCoopers projects in a study being released today.
The ... (read more)
MGM Mirage To Spend $170 Million on Video Lottery Casino21 June 2005
MGM Mirage will spend $170 million to build and operate a 4,500-machine video lottery casino at the Aqueduct Race Track outside New York City. Although the deal may not mean much for the gaming company's revenue, it could reduce customer traffic to Atlantic City.
Deutsche Bank gaming analyst Marc ... (read more)
Trump International Hotel Groundbreaking Set for July 1221 June 2005
Groundbreaking for Donald Trump's first planned Las Vegas development will be July 12, a spokesman for the New York real estate developer said Monday.
The $500 million, 64-story Trump International Hotel and Tower, a nongaming complex, will be built behind the New Frontier Hotel across from the ... (read more)
Poker Boot Camp Gives Wannabes Lessons16 June 2005
LAS VEGAS -- Poker's unrelenting popularity growth over the past 18 months has created an army of new players, encouraged casinos to reopen once shuttered poker rooms, spawned an overabundance of poker-related television programs and given birth to countless online poker Web sites.
Now, budding ... (read more)
California Tribes Match Strip Win15 June 2005
Gaming revenues of $5.3 billion produced by California's 56 Indian casinos in 2004 equaled the gaming win reported by resorts on the Strip during the same calendar year, according to a national study of tribal-operated gaming being released today.
California, home to 28 percent of all the revenue ... (read more)
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