What better way to get into the festive spirit is by winning big when playing at a casino, well that is what several Las Vegas casino visitors have managed to do over the weekend, and have beaten the odds to walk off with some huge jackpots playing various different casino games. Take for example one woman called Barbara, she was…
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Gaming Income Down at Massachusetts Casinos
November turned out to be a very bad month, income wise for casinos based in Massachusetts, and whilst that month is not usually one associated with record income levels, the figures just released for all three casino based in that US state do make for rather depressing reading. Take for example the recently opened Plainridge Park Casino in Plainville, that…
Read MorePoker Rooms in Vegas in Terminal Decline
The future looked promising during 2008 and 2009 for the poker scene over in Las Vegas, for the number of poker rooms was on an upward curve, and on any given day of the week poker players would have a huge choice as to where they could play poker on the Las Vegas Strip and beyond. However, from 2010 onwards…
Read MoreYellow Brick Road Casino in Chittenango Expansion Underway
Over in Madison County the Oneida Indian Nation have set aside $10 million for a massive expansion plan for their Yellow Brick Road Casino, and soon their customers and visitors to that property are going to find several major changes. That expansion plan will hopefully be completed by February of next year and will include a brand-new entertainment wing which…
Read MoreCasino Miami Opens its New William Hill Branded Sportsbook
William Hill are having a torrid time over in the UK, for with gaming income levels down in no small part due to the decrease in profits from their fixed odds betting terminals, having had to restrict players to playing them for a stake of no more than £2 instead of the £100 they could wager previously, they are planning…
Read MoreMacau Casinos Feeling the Pinch
It has been long expected that November’s gross gaming revenue figures over in Macau would be down, and possibly quite noticeably too, and with the release of those figures it has been reported that such revenues have indeed fallen during last month by some 8.5%. The downturn in business at Macau casinos is two-fold, first there is the current and…
Read MoreUS Casinos Liberalizing Their Photography Rules
Some land-based casinos in the US have been quite paranoid about allowing their customers to use cell phones to film themselves playing the games on offer on their respective gaming floors over the last few years. One of the main reasons for that paranoia, was due to the fact that a team of slot machine cheats had been using their…
Read MoreLaughlin Casinos Increasing Player Rewards
Business is a little flat at this time of the year in Laughlin, which is a small gambling town about an hours drive away from Vegas, however it is a place that many people should visit, for set along the banks of the Colorado River the strip of casinos there can be rather generous when it comes to player promotional…
Read MoreThe Strat Vegas Gearing Up for New Year Celebrations
Many people are planning to bring in and celebrate the New Year over in Las Vegas, and it is important that they should not leave it to the last minute to do so, for it is one of the busiest times in Vegas and rooms, suites along with the many parties and events get booked up weeks in advance. One…
Read MoreNewly Renamed Sahara Casino Looking to Step Back in Time
The former SLC Casino in Vegas has been renamed as the Sahara Casino, as it is believed, and is probably very true to say that visitors to Vegas are much more likely to want to say at and/or visit a casino with a familiar name, and the SLS Casino was of course born out of the original Sahara Casino when…
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