A few weeks ago, I started talking about a tiered pricing model for Strip hotels on the Vegas Gang. I took some time to On one side, pro-fee advocates argue that they offer convenience. On the other, resort fee opponents maintain that fees are poorly advertised and shock the customer. There may be a way […]
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news about gamblingFor several reasons, the political landscape in Florida has now shifted, and the expansion of commercial casinos is more likely than it has been in years. From the Miami Herald: Ellyn Bogdanoff has given up. Once one of the most ardent opponents of gambling expansion in the Florida House, the Fort Lauderdale legislator is now
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news about gamblingGood 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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gambling & culture, what's newA few more thoughts about Atlantic City, culled from a few Advisers to Gov. Chris Christie have called for casino regulatory reform, a public-private Atlantic City marketing initiative and possible state intervention in city government as ways to save New Jersey’s casino industry from competition and its “failed” business model. On Friday, Christie released 19
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atlantic city, news about gamblingJane White. America, Welcome to the Poorhouse: What You Must Do to Protect Your Financial Future and the Reform We Need. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: FT Press, 2010. 247 pages. I’m leery of anyone who tells you what bad shape you’re in, then says that they and only they can help you get out
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book reviewsThere’s another negative milestone for Atlantic City slots: in December, they got less play than slots in Pennsylvania. From the AC Press: Gamblers are putting more money into slot machines in Pennsylvania than they are in Atlantic City.The Gaming Industry Observer says December was the first month ever that slot-machine handle in Pennsylvania surpassed Atlantic
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atlantic city, news about gamblingSorry it’s been so long since my last post. I was at the Winter Getaway over the weekend, and since coming back I’ve been absorbed in some faculty governance work that is time-consuming and tedious. It’s mostly very dry procedural documentation and that sort of thing, but it’s actually made me look forward to getting
Kim Nelson. A Desert Gardener’s Companion. Tucson, Arizona. Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001. 328 pages. Gardening in a desert isn’t easy, but in A DESERT GARDENER’S COMPANION, Kim Nelson offers helpful advice about how to tend trees, flowers, vegetables, and herbs in the arid southwest. Written from her Arizonan perspective, it’s nonetheless valuable to those who
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book reviewsBreaking news from the LVRJ: Penn National Gaming will not submit a bid for next week’s planned bankruptcy court auction of the shuttered Fontainebleau project, a company spokesman said Thursday. via Penn won’t pursue Fontainebleau – Breaking News – ReviewJournal.com. What? I don’t believe this. It was supposed to be a sure thing! This is
One of the things that’s been keeping me from rolling out that slot hold survey is the jurisdictions section of the Center for Gaming Research website. During the podcast I did with Steve Bourie, I talked a bit about how the section was a work in progress. Since then, I’ve been trying to get it
…rather than the opposite, as this incident–unfortunately caught live on camera–from CES shows: Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBCs technology show Click managed to break a mobile phone marketed as “unbreakable”, during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. via BBC News – Reporter breaks an unbreakable mobile phone at CES. Click
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haphazard world, life in vegasThings are looking up in Nevada for the first time in a long time. The state’s casinos won more money from gamblers this November than they did last November. Yet there may be another story that isn’t as positive lurking beneath the numbers. From the LVRJ: For the first time in 23 months, Nevada gaming
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news about gamblingThe Atlantic City gaming numbers are in, and 2009 was definitely not pretty. From the AC Press: Casino revenue plunged for the third straight year in 2009, falling below $4 billion for the first time since 1997 as the soft economy and competition from neighboring slot parlors continue to erode the Atlantic City market. Year-end
Miklos Vamos. The Book of Fathers. Translated by Peter Sherwood. New York: Other Press, 2009. 480 pages. This is a thoroughly Hungarian novel that has some crossover appeal, particularly if you think 19th century Russian novels are too light-hearted. Twenty pages in, an entire village is laid waste, not for any strategic military objective, but
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book reviewsGreat news for Pennsylvanians who like to play table games, bad news for Atlantic City, as Pennsylvania has, to no one’s surprise, approved table gaming. Here’s the reaction from the AC Press: Pennsylvania’s slot parlors won’t stop at table games as they prepare to evolve into Atlantic City-style resort casinos in a fierce battle with
Did you know that there is a casino named the Las Vegas Sun? It’s in Cambodia, according to casinocity.com: Las Vegas Sun Hotel & Casino Address Chantrea District Bavet, Svaay Rieng Cambodia Contact Information General Information – +855 44 945 045 Las Vegas Sun Hotel & Casino Hotel * Las Vegas Sun Hotel (Casino located
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news about gamblingIf you’re curious, here’s another podcast interview that I’ve done in the past few weeks, with American Casino Guide: For the January podcast Steve interviews David Schwartz, Director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. They discuss some of the materials contained in the Gaming Research collection, plus
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what's newBack in the summer I interviewed Dylan Evans for the UNLV Gaming Podcast. His main area of current research is risk intelligence. He’s set up a website where you can test your own risk intelligence. Here are the details: Risk Intelligence Quotient RQ is a measure of a person’s ability to estimate probabilities accurately. People
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gambling & cultureSpeaking of dark and gloomy, here’s a quote from the day before Mirage opened back in 1989, from the LA Times via proquest: At the same time, though, the new competition is expected to drive struggling gambling halls out of business.”There’;s going to be a shakeout,” said Glenn S. Schaeffer, chief financial officer of Circus
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news about gamblingIf you haven’t read it yet, here’s a link to my latest from the LVBP: But craps players and conventioneers both, even if they know of the efforts made by designers to craft a green building, are more likely to care about other things: How easy is it to get around this building? Does it
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