Commercial casinos (non-tribal) across America won a combined $3.38 billion in January, an increase of 3.56 percent compared to January 2016.

MGM Resorts has a message for problem gamblers: We’re here for you. Later this year, the company will roll out a new program called GameSense, which puts trained advisors in casinos to share the message that gambling can become a dangerous addiction.

The nearly 600 poker tables across the state of Nevada raked a combined $9 million in February, according to figures released Tuesday by gaming regulators.

Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip had one of their best years in recent memory in terms of writing off uncollectable gambling debts, according to 2016 figures.

One Nevada lawmakers is pursuing a bill to lower the legal gambling age to 18, but there doesn’t seem to be much support elsewhere for the proposal.

This time of year, David Schwartz, the director of UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research, crunches more numbers than an accountant on a tax-filing deadline.

Poker rooms in Nevada may have faced a tough year, but the state’s market had a steady performance over 2016. The Nevada Gaming Control Board released some statistics, revealing the earnings of the state’s casinos generated over 2016.

It wasn’t a winning year for Nevada poker rooms, but the market did hold steady.

Nevada casinos raked $117,753,000 from poker cash games in 2016, according to figures released Tuesday from state regulators. The amount was two-tenths of a percentage point less than what was raked in 2015.

Like so many who come to the valley, the Blockson family is celebrating.
"It's my mother's 50th. That's why we're here, so we are spending all of our money," said Brittany Blockson, a Las Vegas visitor.

After years of bleeding money, Nevada’s casinos area finally turning a profit.

But it’s not the high-roller gamblers helping the casinos see green – it’s the shoppers and diners infusing cash into the state’s industry.

Nevada's biggest casinos combined to turn a profit in fiscal 2016 for the first time in eight years, but it wasn't due to gambling winnings, according to an annual report by state regulators.

Internet gambling helped Atlantic City's casinos post their first revenue increase in a decade.