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Poll: New Jersey gamblers prefer Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – About 12 percent of New Jersey gamblers would take their business to one or more of the four new casinos being built in New York, according to a new poll. A Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind…

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20 places for steak and seafood in Vegas

Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman watches while bartender Tiffinie Smithe pours him a martini at Oscar’s Beef, Booze, Broads at The Plaza. By HEIDI KNAPP RINELLA LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining…

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Speaker: Casino industry can take steps to trace high roller’s bankroll

By HOWARD STUTZ LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL The head of the federal agency assigned to investigate money laundering crimes told a Las Vegas audience Thursday the casino industry can discover the origins of a high roller’s bankroll in the same way…

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PokerStars $4.9 Billion Sale to Amaya May Harken U.S. Return

Christopher Palmeri and Beth Jinks, Bloomberg June 13 (Bloomberg) — PokerStars agreed to be acquired by Amaya Gaming Group Inc. in a $4.9 billion deal that could return the dominant poker website to the U.S. market it’s been absent from…

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Judge: Casino not liable in unshuffled cards case

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A casino does not have to pay $1.5 million won by a group of gamblers who realized the cards had not been shuffled, and can move to recover more than $500,000 it already paid them,…

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Deputies descend on casino as members of Northern California tribe fight

SAN FRANCISCO — Authorities were back Tuesday at a Native American casino in Northern California that’s at the center of an ongoing tense tribal dispute. Tehama County Sheriff’s deputies returned to the Rolling Hills Casino in Corning for a second…

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Borgata, Atlantic City agree to tax refund deal

Wayne Parry, Associated Press The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa will get a refund of more than $88 million under a settlement it reached with Atlantic City over how much the city’s top casino should pay in property taxes. The…

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Two Men Use Girl As Human Shield — Until Her Father Guns Them Down

From, The Daily Caller A St. Louis couple is likely thankful to have guns in their home after they were forced to use them to defend their daughter against two men Monday night. The men, one of whom had an…

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Free is a Welcomed Four-Letter Word

By Christopher G. Axelrod Casino management and marketers know the value of offering free entertainment, either as an attraction or a perk. Free entertainment can be exterior – augmenting a venue’s theme for potential customers, or interior – sustaining customer…

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few nuggets of information that came out of the 2013 Las Vegas Visitors Profile

■ There are plenty of avenues marketers use to attract visitors to Las Vegas. Possibly the biggest mark of success is when a first-time visitor returns less than a year later. The study showed that of all surveyed Las Vegas…