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Tim O'Reiley Gaming Guru - Page 14Trump Entertainment sells Trump Marina to Landry's15 February 2011
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- Trump Entertainment Resorts agreed Monday to sell its Trump Marina Hotel Casino to the Texas-based parent company of the Golden Nugget Las Vegas and Laughlin for $38 million. That's about a tenth of what Trump Entertainment was offering the casino for in 2008. Landry's Inc., a ... (read more)
Binion's Gambling Hall brings back bingo2 February 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Binion's Gambling Hall on Tuesday brought back bingo, opening a new room in the middle of the casino floor. The casino's operators dropped bingo a number of years ago but decided to bring it back since few other downtown properties downtown offered it. It is part of the strategy by ... (read more)
Vegas airport slot machine fees lowered2 February 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Clark County commissioners agreed Tuesday to lower fees for McCarran International Airport's slot machine concession, meaning the airport's revenues from the airport's 1,500 slots could continue to slide in the future.
The airport's take from the 1,500 slot machines scattered throughout the concourses were down in the quarter ended Sept. ... (read more)
Vegas visitor count inches up one percent12 January 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The improvement in the visitor industry continued at a tepid pace in November.
The visitor count for Las Vegas grew by just 1 percent compared to the same month in 2009, the lowest rate of increase since April and less than half of the 2.6 percent for the first 11 months of last year, according to the monthly report by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. ... (read more)
Vegas room rates jacked for Electronics show5 January 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Stratosphere at $450 a night. Excalibur at $479. Hooters Hotel at $339.
Have some Strip hoteliers lost track of their decimal points?
In fact, those very unrecessionlike rates reflect a convention schedule that sees the huge International Consumer Electronics Show and the Adult ... (read more)
Downtown Vegas revenues see biggest gain in two years10 December 2010
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The last time casinos in downtown Las Vegas reported a double-digit increase in their monthly gaming revenues was June 2008 -- which was also the last time gaming revenues actually increased in the troubled market.
So when Nevada gaming regulators released October's gaming figures ... (read more)
Vegas New Year's room rates are flat8 December 2010
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- With The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas touting a three-night New Year's Eve package at $5,600, it might look as if Las Vegas has suddenly turned back the calendar to the free-spending days of 2006. But rates posted by a larger swath of resorts suggest that one of the year's strongest nights is still more hung over than geared up for celebration. ... (read more)
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