News - Page 1619

News Brief: Chance Enterprises, a new partnership, hopes to win one of two licenses for a standalone casino at sites other than Philadelphia or Pittsburgh.

News Brief: Police are calling it a chance encounter that ended with one man dead in front of The Palms.

Even though Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn is building the most expensive resort ever, few industry insiders and experts are betting against him being able to make a profit on his new megaresort.

News Brief: Jacob Entertainment, a national gaming company, that runs three casinos and a horse track is interested in buying bankrupt racing track Vernon Downs.

News Brief: Opponents and proponents of separate expanded gaming proposals will be on hand to try and pursued Kansas lawmakers.

News Brief: Two casinos are better than one, and Tulalip Casino and the Quil Ceda Creek Casino are committed to making entertainment wishes a reality.

th a real estate portfolio that includes the hugely successful Southern Highlands development, the Olympia Land Corporation has formed a gaming subsidiary for near-term and future developments.

Unlike Steve Wynn's previous hotel unveilings, when man-made volcanoes, dancing water fountains, pirate battles and pyrotechnic building implosions signaled a new beginning, the lifting of the wall of silence surrounding the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas won't be any more than a simple countdown on the resort's marquee.

Play to Win reports that Ken Einiger from Las Vegas is this year's World Champion of Blackjack.

TransAct Technologies and IGT have received regulatory approval from the Nevada Gaming Control Board for TransAct's Epic 950 in IGT's Game King Video and S2000 slot machines.

John G. Brokopp: Zucker’s first round was a video poker player’s dream.

News Brief: The tribal council of the Red Lake Chippewa voted unanimously against joining the Minnesota Lottery and the owners of Canterbury Park racetrack in Pawlenty's latest gambling plan, which calls for two casinos to be built at the track in Shakopee.

News Brief: Churchill Downs will become the latest track in a growing list testing every horse entered for excess alkalizing agents when the Louisville track’s spring-summer meet opens on Saturday.

News Brief: About 1,500 other women of a certain age converged on MGM Grand casino Monday for Red Hat Day, a party celebrating the over-50 women's group spreading like a red and purple virus across the country.

Station Casinos Inc.'s Green Valley Ranch Station Casino has closed a restaurant near its sports book to make way for a new poker room that will open in a few weeks.

Casino Journal's Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products Awards are recognized as one of the most prestigious honors bestowed on gaming products or services.

News Brief: The impact of adding Turning Stone casino and four other properties owned by the Oneida Indian Nation to Verona's tax roll is a windfall for the New York town but a nightmare for the county’s other towns.

Isle of Capri Black Hawk has sold all of its shares of Colorado Grande Casino to a wholly owned subsidiary of Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. for $6.5 million.

News Brief: The newly named Resorts casino opens at 6 p.m. today, its decks swabbed clean of any sign of former owner Harrah's.

Job growth created by California Indian casinos and their tribal governments grew by nearly 14% for the year ending March 2005.