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I’ve been absent from blogging for a few days because of a few projects I’ve been working on. One of them is complete, and available for your perusal: the Casino Twitter Adoption study. Here’s the executive summary: Like other businesses, casinos have begun using the social network/information sharing service Twitter. The pattern of Twitter adoption […]
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news about gambling, what's newSince starting the Occasional Paper Series over at the Center for Gaming Research, I’ve really enjoyed the opportunity of getting to learn more about the topics that scholars choose to write about. So it’s a good day when I can announce that another one is ready for your reading pleasure: Paper 06: August 2010 Laura
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what's newThere’s a new podcast up, available on iTunes and on the UNLV Gaming Podcast page: 23-August 5, 2010 Jack Harpster, Author, King of the Slots: William “Si” Redd In this interview, Harpster discusses his background and his new book about IGT founder Si Redd. Listen to the audio file (mp3) Buy the book (Amazon.com) UNLV
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what's newIf you want, you can take a sneak peek at the latest jurisdictional gaming summary I’ve done at the Center for Gaming Research, Macau: http://gaming.unlv.edu/abstract/macau.html I’m still honing it, so any suggestions are appreciated.
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news about gambling, what's newThis is funny. This afternoon, I recorded an interview with Jeff Gillan of In Business Las Vegas, so tune into KSNV-3 tonight if you want to see it. We talk about the NFL allowing Las Vegas ads during regular season games. When I got back to the office, I had an email from a recent
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what's newI spent a few hours down at the World Series of Poker this morning, and came away with one of the best interviews I’ve done yet. It’s now podcast #22 in the UNLV Gaming Podcast Series: 22-June 14, 2010 Jack Effel, Vice President, International Poker Operations and Director, World Series of Poker at Harrah’s Entertainment
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news about gambling, what's newIn preparation for my session at the International Casino Marketing 2010: Player Loyalty, Tech Updates & the Global Market eConference, I’ve been doing a great deal of research into casino tweeting. I’ve put together a list for a statistical study I’m undertaking, and am generally trying to get a better handle on what tweeting brings
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what's newI’ve posted the latest in the Occasional Paper Series over at the Center for Gaming Research. It’s a great read: Paper 03: May 2010 Theodore Whiting. “The History of Baccarat,” Occasional Paper Series 3. Las Vegas: Center for Gaming Research, University Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2010. Abstract: The true origins of modern Baccarat
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gambling & culture, what's newWe’ve got a new podcast up over at the Center for Gaming Research: April’s Gaming Research fellow, Theodor Gordon, gives a talk on tribal sovereignty and labor relations at tribal casinos. It’s a great summary of Indian gaming history with plenty of detail about current labor issues. Here’s the abstract: The impact of tribal casinos
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news about gambling, what's newI’ve got a not-so-new and probably not very exciting report up over at gaming.unlv.edu. It contains an accurate count of the numbers of slot machines, table games, and card games (mostly poker) in Nevada since 1963: Nevada's Gaming Footprint, 1963-2009 (pdf) A breakdown of total licenses and numbers of games, tables, and slots from 1963
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what's newFrom an interview recorded last week comes this week’s UNLV Gaming Podcast: This podcast features an interview with the Executive Director of the National Council on Problem Gambling recorded March 25, 2010 at the Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling, held at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.. Whyte talks about how he become
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gambling & culture, what's newWe’ve got our latest podcast up over at UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research: the Colloquium talk by our March 2010 Gaming Fellow, Pascale Nedelec, ” Urban Dynamics in the Las Vegas Valley: Casinos and Sprawl.” Here’s her abstract of the talk: Las Vegas is well known for its urban sprawl. While the casino industry has
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news about gambling, what's newI’ve posted a new report at the Center for Gaming Research website: a statistical breakdown of the evolution of Nevada baccarat, 1992-2010. Here’s my description: This chart shows the trajectory of Nevada baccarat since 1992. The total baccarat win and number of tables grown over the past eighteen years, both in absolute terms and as
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news about gambling, what's newIt’s a great day at the Center for Gaming Research. The second in the Occasional Papers Series has been published. Here’s the info: Larry Gragg. “The Powerful Mythology Surrounding Bugsy Siegel,” Occasional Paper Series 2. Las Vegas: Center for Gaming Research, University Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2010. Abstract: Journalists, authors, filmmakers, and historians
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what's newThe latest UNLV Gaming Podcast is up; it’s an interview with Aria Resort and Casino President and COO Bill McBeath. A Las Vegas native and UNLV alum, McBeath has had an interesting career, to say the least, and has worked for some of the biggest names in the business—Michael Gaughan, Steve Wynn, and Kirk Kerkorian.
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news about gambling, what's newThe Center for Gaming Research is rolling out a new feature: the Occasional Papers Series. Drawn mostly from research conducted by visiting fellows and UNLV students, this series is going to discuss research into gambling and related issues. The first paper is out: Seeking Value or Entertainment? The Evolution of Nevada Slot Hold, 1992-2009, and
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news about gambling, what's newIn the course of researching an upcoming Vegas Seven story on how casinos use Twitter, I finally broke down and created an account for the Center for Gaming Research. As of today, I am tweeting as… @unlvgaming If you are on Twitter and want to keep up to date on what’s going on, go ahead
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what's newI think that’s me, when my legit first response to this article is, “Boy oh boy! The 2009 Nevada Gaming Abstract’s out at last! It’s gonna be a great week!” Mostly, it’s because now I’ll be able to update Nevada pages over at http://gaming.unlv.edu, but I’ve actually been looking forward to this for months. You
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news about gambling, what's newFor a while now, I’ve been dropping hints about an article on resort fees that I’ve been working on. I’ve been a little more mysterious than usual because the magazine I wrote it for hadn’t been published yet. Well, it’s out at last, in the debut issue of Vegas Seven magazine. It’s the first in
Good news: we are able to offer the research felllowship program for the 2010-11 academic year. Here is the job announcement: The Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas http://gaming.unlv.edu invites graduate students and academic faculty to apply for month-long residency fellowships. Fellows will spend one month doing research at UNLV
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