Slot machine players in Nevada leave an average of $8 million in winnings a year for the state and the casinos to keep, according to a report from Vegas Inc.

Lucky Dragon will be the Strip’s first new-from-the-ground-up casino since 2010 when it opens on December 3. It’s also the Strip’s first casino designed from scratch for Asian customers, with a particular eye on Chinese players. Fittingly, it’s financed largely from Asia through the U.S. government’s EB-5 program that offers U.S. residency to investors that pony up $500,000 for eligible projects. But unlike most casinos on the Strip looking for Asian customers, Lucky Dragon isn’t targeting visitors from Asia. Its primary market is Asians already living in North America.

The casino industry needs to change. According to video gaming machine developer GameCo, U.S. casinos rely upon slot machines for three-quarters of their annual revenues, which are also a favorite of older gamblers, partially explaining why casino revenues have been on the decline for decades.

n a climate-controlled storage room at the heart of UNLV’s Lied Library, a historic collection of sympathy and solidarity fills 491 boxes.

It would nice if the rosy tax revenue projections from the state's budding casino empire come true, but we're expressing caution.

MGM Resorts International, which has the largest number of casino venues on the Las Vegas Strip, announced on Wednesday it had launched a mobile gaming platform and online tournament available on the Wi-Fi telecommunications system at nine MGM properties.

Every day for the last week and a half, restaurant, hotel, and casino workers clad in red T-shirts have crowded the stretch of Atlantic City's boardwalk between the Trump Taj Mahal and the Steel Pier amusement park.

The app has more than 7.5 million users in the United States and it's earning an estimated $1.6 million a day and has hundreds of people walking around parks and city streets.

In 1950, America was waking up to the problem of organized crime. U.S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath convened a conference, primarily of big-city mayors, to discuss the root causes of the rackets (the word “mafia” had not yet entered the popular lexicon). Gambling, he said, was a fundamental nuisance in a country that was fundamentally opposed to the practice.

The so-called Millennial generation of young adults in the United States – those born between 1977 and 1995 – are more likely to respond emotionally to a casino brand than to the incremental benefits of a casino loyalty programme.

We knew it was coming. It was in January of this year we heard the first reports that certain hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip were going to begin what was described then as a "modest parking fee program for valet and self-parking."

David Schwartz gave a tour of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He showed items from the university archives' collection related to the history of gambling in Las Vegas and shared sotries of how the industry evolved over time.