Riviera hotel to be demolished for Las Vegas convention center expansion
Richard N. Velotta and Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The walls of the Riviera will, indeed, come tumbling down. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority on Tuesday scheduled a special board meeting on Friday to consider acquisition of the…
Vegas tourism agency may buy Riviera for up to $191 million
Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) – The aging Riviera hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip won’t be long for this world if a plan from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to buy, demolish it…
MGM reports wider 4th-quarter loss
Kimberly Pierceall, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) – MGM Resorts International’s fourth-quarter loss widened, hurt by a hefty provision for income taxes related to its liabilities in Macau, China, the world’s largest gambling market. Nonetheless, MGM CEO Jim Murren told…
Station Casinos upbeat about locals gaming market
Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal · Station Casinos presented an upbeat outlook for the Las Vegas locals gaming market Tuesday, based on economic improvements, higher consumer confidence, and lower gasoline prices. The company reported revenue and cash flow figures that…
PokerStars, tribes have a new ally in California online gaming fight – Caesars
Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal If California’s Internet poker debate was an actual card game, PokerStars just doubled up. But the European online gaming giant is still short-stacked against two of the state’s largest tribal casino operators in its effort…
Revel says it has ‘many’ buyers for ex-casino
Wayne Parry, Associated Press · ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – A Florida developer trying to salvage a deal to buy Atlantic City’s former Revel casino says the casino’s owner told him it has “many” buyers for it. In a Sunday…
Vice Cops Raid East Dallas Gambling Ring
On January 14, vice cops fanned out across East Dallas and descended on a half dozen aging storefronts in crappy, low-rent strip centers: one off Columbia Avenue a mile east of Deep Ellum, another where Garland Road transitions from isn’t-it-nice-to-be-near-White-Rock-Lake!…
Is Las Vegas’ Riviera Hotel about to be history?
Rivera pool, then and now The Riviera opened on April 20, 1955 as the first high-rise on the Las Vegas strip. Liberace headlined the first night, and continued for years following. Howard Stutz and Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal…
NJ allows physical skill-based gambling
Wayne Parry, Associated Press · February 13, 2015 at 11:53 am Bookmark and Share ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – An Atlantic City casino is about to redefine casino gambling by introducing a new style of wagering: competition based on a…
Police pounce on gamblers at World Cup opene
Associated Press · February 14, 2015 at 6:20 am Bookmark and Share CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand police ejected several men from the opening match of the Cricket World Cup between New Zealand and Sri Lanka for what…