The Japanese government is systematically moving forward, albeit slowly, with legislation that will authorize the development of integrated gaming resorts, a major change for a country that has long prohibited casino gambling. And researchers from UNLV’s International Gaming Institute are helping Japanese officials prepare to build the best gaming industry possible.

The Japanese government is systematically moving forward, albeit slowly, with legislation that will authorize the development of integrated gaming resorts, a major change for a country that has long prohibited casino gambling. And researchers from UNLV’s International Gaming Institute are helping Japanese officials prepare to build the best gaming industry possible.

The University of Las Vegas’ International Gaming Institute has published two research reports on the nascent Japanese casino industry.

Around the world in a year. That’s how far Bo Bernhard, the engaging 44-year-old executive director of the UNLV International Gaming Institute, goes to answer clarion calls — he terms them “bat signals” — that beckon him.

Japan can learn from Nevada’s experience, to ensure organized crime does not infiltrate the former’s nascent casino industry, and to make sure the social and economic effects of such gaming business benefit the tourism sector and society rather than harm the host community.

Japan can learn from Nevada’s experience, to ensure organized crime does not infiltrate the former’s nascent casino industry, and to make sure the social and economic effects of such gaming business benefit the tourism sector and society rather than harm the host community.

As the nation debates how to establish and operate casinos via integrated resorts, it must take measures to keep the yakuza out and manage not only problem gambling but also develop a responsible drinking policy for the casino floor, a group of U.S. experts said in two new reports.

Few college players willingly abandon a match of Overwatch to attend class, but Robert Rippee’s esports lab at UNLV may be the most fun a gamer can have without a controller.

UNLV is the first major university to offer an academic course and lab centered on esports.

UNLV has partnered with Millennial Esports this semester to teach students about the business side of the competitive video game circuit.

Blackjack is the most popular table game in American casinos, due at least in part to its basic structure of trying to beat the dealer’s hand without going over 21, and because of its low house edge. But a student at UNLV’s Center for Gaming Innovation (CGI) is trying to disrupt how the card game is played by offering a new version called Easy Jack.

The tribe isn’t required to publicly disclose revenue at each casino, but the checks it sends to the state are public knowledge. Using effective revenue sharing rates and reviewing payments received, the Miami-Herald has assembled estimated data on the seven gambling venues.