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Liz Benston Gaming Guru - Page 17Slots for a new generation17 December 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Years from now, slot machine players may wander into a casino and wonder if they've landed in a game arcade.
Slots will function more like video games, featuring space ships - whoa, look out for that force field! - and pinball flippers. You won't be trying to line up three blazing 7s as much as you'll be shooting at space invaders and asteroids. ... (read more)
Looking in on: Gaming17 December 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Bargain-hunters take heart - the home of celebrity impersonators, nightly karaoke and some of the cheapest rooms on the Strip doesn't look like it will be facing a wrecking ball anytime soon.
Parent company Harrah's Entertainment isn't disclosing its intentions with respect to ... (read more)
Teens on the fast track to executive status on the Strip11 December 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- While most teenagers are happy for a job at McDonald's or the mall, a handful of high school students are being groomed for management jobs at Strip resorts.
Angela Szewczyk, for instance, began working as an intern for Wolfgang Puck - and we're not talking about clearing tables - as a 17-year-old high school senior. ... (read more)
Stretching out the fun time9 December 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Sometimes, slot machine makers think they've come up with a better mouse trap, and the mice don't bite.
Consider this year's introduction of a machine feature called "Guaranteed Play."
It was hailed as a revolution in the casino industry - so promising it would even seduce gamblers who normally would walk right by slot machines. ... (read more)
Does lead make gaming chips hazardous to your health?5 December 2007
Four weeks after a Phoenix TV station reported that some gambling chips manufactured by a Las Vegas company contained exceptionally high lead content, anxious casino dealers say they still don't know if they're handling toxic materials for a living.
The report put the manufacturer, Gaming Partners ... (read more)
States look to casinos for cash fix3 December 2007
All across the country, states are allowing the slow expansion of gaming - and then trying to wring more money out of casinos - to make up for declining revenue. The teachers' effort in Nevada to raise the top gaming tax from 6.75 percent to 9.75 percent is just one example of how the citizenry views casinos as a cash cow - and almost makes the Nevada tax hit look like chump change. ... (read more)
Downtown's Plaza fights for its name with upscale Strip resort3 December 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Owners of the famed Plaza Hotel in New York have run into a little problem opening a Las Vegas version of their Manhattan landmark. Las Vegas already has a Plaza Hotel, a downtown, down-market establishment that no one would mistake for the original.
The owners of the existing hotel ... (read more)
Gaming's new frontier26 November 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- As gambling profits spur an unprecedented multibillion-dollar building boom on the Strip, untold ranks of professional poker players, sports bettors and recreational gamblers continue to pour money into a shadow industry based offshore but with a de facto home in Las Vegas. ... (read more)
Looking in on: Gaming25 November 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Handheld gambling devices were the big buzz at last year's Global Gaming Expo trade show but are still undergoing testing in the Gaming Control Board's slot lab. As a next step, the Venetian is expected to begin testing the devices, manufactured by Cantor Gaming, early next year. ... (read more)
Table deals out human factor25 November 2007
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Poker is a necessary annoyance for casino executives.
Televised tournaments and pop culture references have made poker a player favorite, but the games, in which players bet against one another, don't make much money for the house.
A startup company from North Carolina ... (read more)
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