Who want’s a new Las Vegas resort with no gambling? The Majestic Las Vegas is set to launch in 2024, and apparently they believe this will be a good idea… as long as there’s no smoking allowed at the resort, either! The new hotel aims to carve out a niche for itself in Vegas by […]
The Golden Gate Casino and Hotel celebrated 115 years on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas yesterday. The property is owned and managed by Circa Resorts. Circa owner Derek Stevens celebrated the anniversary Friday and credited their work with Golden Gate as preparing his team to develop other downtown properties, The D and the newly […]
In an effort to get the state’s economy back on track, Vegas casino workers will be some of the first to get the Covid vaccination as “essential workers”. The Employment Department estimates there are more than 300,000 people working in the leisure and hospitality industry at the end of last year, which accounts for about […]
Shortly after the passing of Sheldon Adelson, we now learn that Las Vegas Sands profits fell nearly $2.2 billion last year, thanks in large part to the pandemic and diminishing tourism to Nevada. Room revenue fell almost 73% while food and beverage revenue was down 69%. Earnings from their conventions and retail shops fell 67%. […]
Less than a month after his presidency ended, Donald’s Trump Plaza is set to be demolished in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The building has been vacant since 2014. The resort is set for demolition on February 17, as the building has been falling apart in recent years. What’s left of the complex has been a […]
It’s been less than a month since the passing of Sheldon Adelson, and already his Las Vegas Sands has a new CEO who is steering the company toward iGaming and digital betting. Rob Goldstein has been named as Adelson’s replacement, and he seems set to take the company directly into the teeth of the industry […]
Could we soon be seeing Bitcoin slot machines for some of our favorite game titles? Our friends at IGT are working on that right now! And soon, popular titles like their Megabucks and Wheel of Fortune could be accepting cryptocurrency payments! IGT recently received a patent after developing a way to move Bitcoin and other […]
Washington sports betting is looking to expand beyond the walls of Tribal casinos. For the second year in a row a new bill was introduced in the State Senate to expand sports gambling. The bill would expand sports betting to state licensed card rooms and horse tracks. A similar proposal bill failed last year, but […]
Casinos and the lottery are on the radar after a report suggests that Alabama gambling could bring in $700 million for the state each year. Additionally, regulation of the industry could provide an additional 19,000 jobs to the state. Governor Kay Ivey commissioned the report from the Study Group on Gambling Policy. That report was […]
Long time online gambling opponent and source of much trouble for our industry, Sheldon Adelson died last night while hospitalized for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an illness first disclosed in early 2019. He was 87. The chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and one of the Republican Party’s major donors, Adelson had recently taken a leave […]