Year: 2015

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Icahn: Union costs helped kill 4 Atlantic City casinos

Wayne Parry, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says union benefit costs and work rules were a big reason four of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos closed last year. Icahn said on Tuesday that Local 54…

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Rival bidder emerges for shuttered Revel casino

Wayne Parry, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A billionaire Manhattan developer and veteran New Jersey real estate executive are pursuing Atlantic City’s former Revel casino, according to a court filing Tuesday. The court filing by former business tenants…

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High Roller marks year of revolution

Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The High Roller — Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s observation wheel at the center of the Strip — marked its one-year anniversary Tuesday evening with company officials calling the attraction a success despite the attraction falling below…

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Nevada and Strip gaming revenues decline in February

Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Maybe it was baccarat. Maybe the calendar was to blame. In other words, analysts looked to make sense out of February’s gaming revenue results in Nevada where Strip casinos declined 4.4 percent and every reporting…

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Amaya Gaming hopes to launch PokerStars site in New Jersey

Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal · Canada-based Amaya Gaming, which spent $4.9 billion to acquire PokerStars last year, said Tuesday it hopes to launch an American-based PokerStars site in New Jersey by the fall. During a conference call to discuss…

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Texas: Underground slot parlors are a $2 Billion industry

Please use the link, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/texas-slot-machines-ring-up-big-business-in-a-legal-gray-area.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=1 Replies: No replies were posted for this topic.

Life on the Home Front

The truth is humorous

Could have posted this in Humor, here or World we live in ………. A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him,…

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Kentucky’s Perfect NCAA Run Causes Indigestion at Sports Books

Mason Levinson, Bloomberg Nick Bogdanovich could use some antacid. Bogdanovich, the director of trading at sports book operator William Hill U.S., in July posted 50-1 odds the University of Kentucky would have a perfect season. As the Wildcats reached the…

Craps

Gambling income-loss and taxes

I had one of the leaders of one of the craps sites I’m on PM me and ask me contact some one who’s wife had received what he called Casinos 1099s and the guy wanted to handle them correctly. After…

Craps

How Many Practice Hours to Casino Hours is right for you?

Don’t know if this thread will create any interest or not. This is something that I have been calculating before each casino trip ever since I have been trying to influence the dice. Probably no right answer to this but…