In The News: Center for Gaming Research
A casino war has begun.
Portsmouth leaders came out swinging this week with their own plans to open a waterfront casino, rivaling plans by the Pamunkey Indians to build one in downtown Norfolk.
Celine Dion and Mariah Carey are getting some high profile company in Las Vegas Strip in 2019.
Last week, I shared six leadership secrets for good management excerpted from Tales from the Slot Floor, a collection of edited interviews with casino slot managers, To recap, this book is based on a series of interviews with veteran slot management professionals. This week, I’m going to look at the other side of the occasion by sharing what those managers had to say about the mistakes they’ve seen others make once they were elevated to a leadership position.
When voters agreed to allow casinos into Ohio in 2009, advocates projected that the four locations would generate $1.9 billion in revenue before taxes.
When the Supreme Court issued a ruling in May that effectively legalized sports gambling, venture capital firm SeventySix Capital wasted no time getting in on the action.
The two biggest hotel-casino giants on the Las Vegas Strip could soon become one. There is speculation that MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment could merge.
Just four months after launch, New Jersey's legal sports-betting industry is off to the races.
With more than $1.6B (yes, billion) in the Mega Millions jackpot and over $620M in the Powerball jackpot, lottery fever is at an all-time high. Yet, your chances of winning were only a truly miraculous 1-in-302.6 million for the Mega Millions, and your chance of winning Powerball is something around 1-in-292 million. And the chance of winning both lotteries? Something like, 1-in-88 quadrillion, according to CNBC.
You would think that a 50-year run in Las Vegas would be cause for celebration. Not so for Circus Circus, the hotel-casino along the Las Vegas Strip that promised a new type of theme-driven entertainment when it opened Oct. 18, 1968.
It opened up in the Year of the Monkey and closed in the Year of the Dog — a two-year stretch of bad fortune for a casino that once had designs on being the go-to place for an authentic Asian experience in Vegas.
The Lucky Dragon Hotel is now closed. Tuesday was the last day for hotel employees.
We all know some of the most famous – and catchy – product slogans:
“Melts in your mouth, Not in Your Hands” - M&Ms, of course.