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The Octavius Tower will add 594 guest rooms and is slated to open next summer.

Grammy-award winner Terrance Simien is among many celebrities expected to perform at the Global Gaming Expo.

Joe Navarro will hold a two-day advanced academy on how to gain an edge at the poker table.

News brief: Hurricanes Gustav and Ike contributed to a 23 percent drop in revenue as compared to September of last year.

News brief: Sixty-two percent of likely voters say they support the ballot measure, according to the Washington Post.

News brief: Colorado estimates expanded gambling would bring in as much as $300 million in five years.

News brief: A state judge rejected Monday a lawsuit seeking to strip a proposal to revise Missouri's casino laws from the Nov. 4 ballot.

Tampa Bay, a 200-1 long shot in April to win the World Series, is making several sports book directors nervous in late October.

Company executives will not receive any cash bonuses or non-equity incentive compensation this year.

The Real Deal! will feature top poker pros including Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth Jr. and Scotty Ngyuyen.

Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis has allocated $20,000 to help its employees purchase homes through the Regional Employer Assisted Collaboration for Housing Mississippi program.

Cracks are beginning to show in the multibillion-dollar Las Vegas convention industry, which had managed to deliver increased attendance this year despite the growing downturn.

Principals in the Simpson case sought to sell contested memorabilia to Goldmans.

The challenge for Station Casinos in opening Aliante Station is to not scare away the customers.

The breathtaking series of Wall Street failures and Washington bailouts of recent months suggests anything is possible — even spectacular failures in Las Vegas.

A fight between California visitors and workers on the Las Vegas Strip turned deadly Sunday morning, Metro Police said today.

Amid collapsing credit markets and sinking stock prices, gaming industry leaders are looking for any piece of positive news.

Tropicana Entertainment will continue to reinvest in its other properties and look for new growth opportunities even if its efforts to regain control of its flagship property in Atlantic City fail.

News brief: Mohegan Sun CEO Mitchell Etess says September could have been "the worst month ever" for the gaming industry as the casino's slot revenue fell 13% while Foxwoods suffered a 16% drop.

News brief: Gaming taxes collected by Vicksburg, Warren County and the Vicksburg Warren School District from bets placed at the four local casinos were down slightly once again in September.