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August 29 2001
Room rates on LV Strip creeping up
LAS VEGAS SUN
Since the spring, hotel room rates on the Las Vegas Strip have been sliding. But that decline may be coming to a temporary end.
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August 28 2001
Recent gaming industry appointments
At GEM Communications, Jamie McKee is associate publisher and editor of Casino Journal, David McKee is managing editor of Casino Journal and Casino Executive Reports, Dave Ellingson is senior editor of Casino Journal and managing editor of the National Gaming Summary and Dave Palermo is editor of Casino Executive Reports.
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August 29 2001
Stratosphere's plans for ride opposed
LAS VEGAS SUN
Neighbors of the Stratosphere have grown accustomed to hearing the screams of riders on the Big Shot thrill ride and the High Roller coaster at the hotel-casino.
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August 28 2001
Caesars riverboat opening $62 million hotel
BRIDGEPORT, Ind. -- The Louisville, Ky., area's third-largest hotel is ready for business. The $62 million, 503-room Caesars Indiana, which has been a major focus for Caesars since it opened its Harrison County casino in late 1998, was to open to the public today.
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August 28 2001
Harrah's selling land once planned for hotel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS -- Harrah's New Orleans Casino has decided to sell a piece of property that could have been used for a casino hotel. Developers Roger Ogden and Darryl Berger are buying the 30,000-square-foot parcel that had been slated for sale to the company that owns the Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place.
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August 26 2001
Locals flock to Arizona in lottery rush
LAS VEGAS SUN
For the past seven days, ever since the multistate Powerball lottery hit $150 million, a warped, clapboard roadhouse about 30 miles south of Hoover Dam has absorbed waves of Las Vegans, who, of all things, are traveling in carpools.
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August 26 2001
Software installations boost Acres Gaming profits
LAS VEGAS SUN
Software installations boost Acres Gaming profits
The installation of computer software systems at MGM MIRAGE, Station Casinos and Indian casino properties led to a financial turnaround for Acres Gaming Inc.
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August 25 2001
Coast Resorts expanding Summerlin hotel-casino
LAS VEGAS SUN
Coast Resorts Inc. posted strong financial results for the second quarter, driven primarily by its newest hotel-casino, the Suncoast.
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August 23 2001
Guggenheim debut delayed
LAS VEGAS SUN
Art lovers will have to wait three additional weeks for a pair of world class museums to open at the Venetian resort. The museums by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation of New York and Russia's State Hermitage Museum will open to the public on Oct. 7, rather than on Sept. 16 as previously reported. The preview and opening events for the two museums will be held on Oct. 4, the museum officials announced today.
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August 23 2001
Critics challenge Binion license renewal
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS -- A casino operator's Las Vegas roots and history of violations are prompting some gambling opponents to recommend against renewing his license for an Indiana riverboat.
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August 23 2001
Four Queens casino revenue up, but hotel sales decline
LAS VEGAS SUN
The owner of downtown Las Vegas' Four Queens hotel-casino reported lower earnings for the quarter ending June 30.
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August 22 2001
Bankrupt Vegas hotel-casino considering new funding
The bankrupt Vacation Village hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip said it's considering a $42 million loan offer from a mystery lender after a $35 million bailout loan fell through.
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August 21 2001
Harrah's COO says industry regulations are unproductive
LAS VEGAS SUN
One of the nation's top casino executives on Friday blasted the current state of gaming regulations, calling them unnecessarily intrusive and unsuited to the realities of the modern casino industry.
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August 21 2001
Harrah's property lays off 100
The Rio hotel-casino has laid off about 100 employees, as cost-control measures continue at the struggling Harrah's Entertainment Inc. property. The layoffs involved a mix of dealers and table game supervisors, said Tom Jenkin, general manager of the off-Strip resort.
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August 21 2001
Woman sues Mississippi over casino deal with tribe
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON, Miss. -- A Jackson woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that a deal between the state and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is a financial burden to Mississippi and needs to be renegotiated.
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August 20 2001
The Urban Gamble
Detroit -- Demetria Mims had never set foot in a casino until three Las Vegas-style gambling halls began opening here two years ago. She landed a job at MotorCity Casino, where she books limos and hotel rooms for high rollers at nearly double her old salary.
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August 19 2001
Legislators being entertained by half-naked exotic dancers during gambling, golf and sex junkets.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Legislators and lobbyists being entertained by half-naked exotic dancers during gambling, golf and sex junkets. Liquor-fueled parties in a Capitol office, with women being harassed and even a ``condom tree.''
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August 19 2001
N.J. claims sex discrimination against casino
TRENTON, N.J., (Reuters) - New Jersey authorities filed a discrimination complaint against Caesars Atlantic City casino on Thursday, charging the gambling house with tolerating sexual harassment and retaliating against women who objected.
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August 18 2001
Las Vegas Lady Luck loses money in quarter
Flooding in the Midwest, a tropical storm in South, continued losses in Las Vegas and a slowing economy all contributed to a 45 percent dip in first-quarter earnings at Isle of Capri Casinos Inc.
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August 18 2001
Aladdin, Athena talks hit dead end
LAS VEGAS SUN
Plans to build a high-rise luxury hotel and condominium complex next to the Aladdin resort on the Las Vegas Strip have fallen through, Aladdin officials said.
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August 18 2001
Gambling tribe denies racism charges in membership policy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS -- That old story about the person who goes from rags to riches and suddenly is besieged by relatives he didn't know he had resonates deeply with the chief of the Tunica-Biloxi Indians.
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August 18 2001
Desert Passage Mall tenant challenges eviction
A Desert Passage mall tenant accused of defaulting on $337,099 in rents is fighting its landlord's eviction notice.
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August 16 2001
Casino flights link Arizona town, Nevada
Laughlin Air will fly nonstop between the Nevada gambling city and Tucson three days a week beginning in mid-September.
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August 16 2001
Subsidiary gets contract
Anchor Gaming of Las Vegas announced its subsidiary, United Tote, received a five-year contract to supply pari-mutuel wagering equipment at seven racetracks across the United States.
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August 15 2001
Finding closure at the Maxim
LAS VEGAS SUN
It was quiet in the lobby of the Maxim hotel Monday morning, more quiet than most Las Vegas resorts ever are.
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August 15 2001
Stratosphere revenue up, profit slides down
LAS VEGAS SUN
Increased casino operating and promotional expenses reduced earnings for the quarter ending June 30 for Stratosphere Corp., owner of the Stratosphere hotel-casino and its 1,149-foot-tall tower in Las Vegas.
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August 14 2001
Beauty queen's image focus of casino brochure debate
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A picture sometimes requires a thousand words. In this case, it's two pictures -- both of former Miss America Heather French Henry in a brochure for a casino in Indiana.
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August 14 2001
Utah gamblers head to Idaho for lottery ticket
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's unofficial lottery -- the Idaho Powerball -- is expected to top out at $100 million by Wednesday night's drawing, and service stations along the border are seeing a lot of ticket buyers from Utah.
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August 14 2001
LV casino sues defecting host 
Hotel San Remo sued a former casino host, Stephen Roy, alleging he stole and used its confidential client information to encourage its customers to gamble at its rival, Palace Station.
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August 14 2001
Park Place partner takes step toward Indian casino in N.Y.
LAS VEGAS SUN
Park Place Entertainment Corp.'s vision of a casino resort in the Catskills took another step forward Friday when its partner, the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, struck a deal that will secure the support of formerly critical local officials
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August 13 2001
Nevada Regulators Investigate Las Vegas Casino's Ties to Internet Betting Site
CARSON CITY, Nev.--Nevada gaming regulators are investigating the relationship between an Internet betting site and a September poker tournament scheduled at downtown's Four Queens. Advertisements in national poker magazines circulated in Nevada card rooms say the online poker site, ultimatebet.com, is charging customers $15 or $30 apiece to compete in small, Internet card tournaments.
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August 13 2001
Gaming Control Board Supports Reno, Nev., Neighborhood Casino
CARSON CITY, Nev.--The Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday recommended by a 3-0 vote that Reno's newest neighborhood casino receive a state gaming license to begin operating as early as next month. The $16 million, slots-only Tamarack Junction sits about 10 miles south of Reno's downtown, and plans to borrow from marketing strategies employed by locals casinos in Las Vegas and Reno
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August 12 2001
Nevada regulators file complaint against Harveys
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The Nevada Gaming Control Board has filed a single-count complaint alleging that Harveys Resort hotel-casino, on Tahoe's south shore, didn't follow state rules for cash transactions
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August 12 2001
Colorado Towns Dealt Opposing Hands
Los Angeles Times
CENTRAL CITY, Colo.--They lie only a mile apart, but the true distance between the two old mining towns had always been symbolized by Central City's practice of steering its sewage down the hill and through the middle of Black Hawk. Neighborliness has never been a hallmark of the relationship between these two towns, perched above 8,000 feet in the Rockies.
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August 11 2001
Suncoast owner interested in buying Regent resort
LAS VEGAS SUN
Coast Resorts Inc. entered the bidding for the Regent Las Vegas at a Thursday bankruptcy court hearing, making a surprise bid of $82 million for the bankrupt Summerlin hotel-casino.
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August 11 2001
Evidence of Las Vegas casino slowdown mounts
LAS VEGAS SUN
Propped up by strong high-roller action, the Las Vegas Strip posted an 11.5 percent increase in June gaming revenues, the state Gaming Control Board reported this morning. But evidence of a slowdown in Nevada's gaming industry continues to mount.
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August 11 2001
Las Vegas hotel closing to public Monday
The 22-year-old Maxim hotel-casino will shut its doors to the public Monday, hotel employees said today.
The hotel's reservations department will be closed Saturday night, and the final night guests will be checked in Sunday evening. The property will close to the public Monday at 5 p.m., after the final guests have checked out, and the front desk department will then be shut down.
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August 10 2001
Attorney: Feds eyeing alleged use of tax returns by Mirage
LAS VEGAS SUN
Treasury Department officials are investigating allegations that an Internal Revenue Service employee secretly provided a gambler's federal tax returns to Las Vegas casino executives, a New York attorney said.
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August 9 2001
Laid-off workers claim Harrah's used them to get tax break
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS -- Seven former employees of Harrah's New Orleans Casino filed a class-action lawsuit against the gambling hall, claiming they shouldn't have been laid off last month.
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August 9 2001
Japanese giant Konami buys LV casino supplier
LAS VEGAS SUN
Emerging slot machine maker Konami Gaming Inc. said Tuesday it has acquired Paradigm Gaming Systems, a Las Vegas maker of casino database systems, for $12 million.
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August 9 2001
Gaming chairman successor will come from north
SUN CAPITAL BUREAU
CARSON CITY -- The next chairman of the powerful Nevada Gaming Commission will come from Northern Nevada and will be an attorney, the governor said today. Gov. Kenny Guinn said he will likely name a replacement next week for Brian Sandoval of Reno, who resigned Aug. 1.
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August 8 2001
Mirage debt scandal figure settles
LAS VEGAS SUN
The central figure in Mirage Resorts Inc.'s 1997 gambling debt collection scandal in South Korea and Mirage have agreed to settle their claims against each other.
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August 8 2001
Deputy AG discussed as possible gaming commission chairman
LAS VEGAS SUN
A top gaming attorney within the attorney general's office is being mentioned as a possible candidate for chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission.
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August 8 2001
Second union to organize Las Vegas casino dealers
LAS VEGAS SUN
A year ago no one was willing to take on the Herculean task of organizing Las Vegas' casino dealers. Now dealers find themselves with competing groups vying for their attention.
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August 7 2001
Portrait of a gambling addict
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES, Iowa -- For Charlie Nelson, reality came crashing down late one night after he'd once again lied to his wife about what he was planning to do the next day.
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August 7 2001
Casino flier defendants win legal fight over venue
LAS VEGAS SUN
Station Casinos Inc., a former Station executive and a political consultant, sued by the state in Carson City for allegedly financing and distributing an illegal anonymous campaign flier, have won court approval to transfer the lawsuit to Clark County District Court.
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August 7 2001
Recent gaming industry appointments and promotions
Mark Sirianni is director of casino marketing and Mauricio Cuellar is director of casino operations at the Monte Carlo resort. 
Mike Tessmer is general manager of Anchor Gaming's video lottery subsidiary, VLC.
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August 7 2001
Laughlin convention center expanding
LAUGHLIN -- Harrah's Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas announced it's expanding the convention space at its Harrah's Laughlin Casino & Hotel.
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August 6 2001
NCAA Considers Tourney Site Change
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The promoter of three college basketball tournaments originally slated for a Las Vegas casino hotel has written the NCAA (news - web sites) requesting a site change. The proposed sites were not disclosed Friday by the NCAA or promoter Chris Spencer, director of Worldwide Basketball in Cincinnati.
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August 6 2001
RACING ASS'N RIPS RUDY ON OTB ‘BUYER'
Mayor Giuliani sparked a ferocious war with the New York Racing Association yesterday by announcing plans to sell the city's Off-Track Betting Corp. to a Canadian-based competitor.
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August 5 2001
New York City to Sell OTB Corp.
NEW YORK (AP) - The city has agreed to sell Off-Track Betting Corp. for about $260 million in a move critics Thursday described as shortsighted. ``This is a great example of how privatizing non-essential services can bring tremendous benefits to our city,'' Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (news - web sites) said at a news conference Thursday.
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August 5 2001
Gilley's saloon sued over bull ride injury
LAS VEGAS SUN
A Las Vegas woman sued the Las Vegas Strip's New Frontier hotel-casino, its Gilley's Saloon, Dancehall and Bar-B-Que and the operator of Gilley's mechanical bull ride, alleging she was injured by the ride.
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August 4 2001
Customers claim injuries from LV resort water attractions
Two personal injury lawsuits were filed against the Mandalay Bay megaresort on the Las Vegas Strip and the manufacturer and operator of two of its water attractions, the "Lazy River Pool" and the "Wave Pool."
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August 4 2001
James, Scherer mentioned for Gaming Commission post
LAS VEGAS SUN
With Brian Sandoval's term as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission now at an end, speculation is starting in earnest over who his successor will be.
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August 3 2001
Aladdin managers reassure employees about corporate news
LAS VEGAS SUN
While confusion reigned over who is in control of the $1.2 billion Aladdin hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Aladdin's top executives tried to calm resort employees, saying little change should be expected in the resort's operations.
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August 3 2001
Hypnotist, sued by Venetian, sues customer
LAS VEGAS SUN
Las Vegas hypnotist and financial adviser Marshall Sylver was accused by the Venetian hotel-casino of allegedly failing to pay $201,000 in gaming debts after a check he allegedly issued bounced.
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August 3 2001
Vegas casino companies deny throwing their weight around
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JACKSON, Miss. -- Two operators of Vicksburg casinos argued Wednesday before Mississippi's high court they didn't exert undo influence over regulators' consideration of a proposed gambling house along the Big Black River.
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August 2 2001
Online gambling conviction upheld
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
NEW YORK -- A U.S. appeals court panel in Manhattan on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a bookmaker who was sentenced to 21 months in prison as part of what the authorities called the first federal prosecution of Internet sports gambling.
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August 2 2001
Vegas attracts convention with 12,000 attendees
The Construction Specifications Institute, an organization of 18,000 architects, engineers, builders and building suppliers, will conduct its international convention and trade show in Las Vegas next year.
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August 1 2001
South Carolina court rules ocean gambling is legal
ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina's attorney general is not giving up his crusade to bar gambling day cruises from South Carolina ports despite a state Supreme Court ruling that such "cruises to nowhere" do not violate state law.
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August 1 2001
Missouri casinos boost earnings for LV company
An increase in revenues from two Missouri casinos acquired by Ameristar Casinos Inc. has boosted the company's earnings to record levels.
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August 1 2001
Locals gaming giant lays off 24
Lesley Pittman, director of corporate and government relations for the company that owns seven Las Vegas-area properties targeting the locals market, said Station also eliminated 16 positions that had been unfilled.
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