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Jimmy Newman, longtime gaming industry insider died Feb. 8, 2013 at the age of 87.

Las Vegas gaming legend Jimmy Newman knew how to fish for whales in Las Vegas.

When he was senior vice president of gaming for the Las Vegas Hilton, he championed the construction of three luxury megasuites on the hotel’s 30th floor, where the biggest whales — Vegas jargon for the highest of high-rollers — swam in opulence.

In the years that followed the 1993 opening of Newman’s Sky Villas, the whales kept coming. As a result, Newman helped usher in the megaresorts era and boosted international gaming, crowning his 58 years in the local gaming industry, during which he was characterized as the most powerful executive at the Hilton company aside from Barron Hilton.

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