We’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 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 newI’m doing a ton of work on the gaming.unlv.edu pages in preparation for even bigger changes early next year, which you can see on the main page. While I don’t have an iTunes channel yet, I’ve uploaded the audio of Cristina Turdean’s Colloquium talk. You can download it here: UNLV Center for Gaming Research: Podcasts.
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what's newFor you short attention-span Gaming Abstract junkies out there, Christmas came a little early this year. I’ve completed and posted a convenient 1-pdf breakdown of the 2007 Nevada gaming win. If you don’t want to click through, here are some high points: Total money gambled: Slots: $138.7 billion Tables: $32.3 billion Total: $171 billion Casino
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news about gamblingWorking with lightning speed and a rare determination, I managed to totally revamp the Neon Survey exhibit in less than 24 hours–with not a minute of overtime, no less. I’ve already started reworking the Xanadu exhibit. In general, I’m making all of the exhibits conform more readily to the UNLV web standard, but I’m also
No story links today, because I’m busy remodeling the Virtual Museum over at gaming.unlv.edu. The place looked great in 2002, but it’s definitely do for a revamp. I’m generally making it look less like the place where I learned to do web design, and more like a streamlined academic resource. One casualty: the picture of
This is probably the only positive expected value deal in Vegas: get paid $4000 to study gambling for a month. From H-Net: What you get • A $4,000 stipend to cover housing and expenses • Desk space in the UNLV Special Collections Reading Room, • Use of a laptop computer What you give • One
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gambling & culture, life in vegasWas this year’s WSOP, held under the shadow of UIGEA (also known as the Internet gambling ban), a success? Look at some of the numbers from CardPlayer and judge for yourself: The dust stirred up by the thousands of players who traipsed through the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino the last two months has cleared,
This is a big day for me–I get to announce a program that I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: at last, the Center for Gaming Research can offer research fellowships. That means that, if you are a qualified graduate student or professor, you can get $4,000 to spend a month studying in
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gambling & culture, what's newI’ve gotten enough emails from people asking me to appraise yellowing prints of Coolidge’s “A Friend in Need” to make me regret putting that image in the UNLV online Gaming Art Gallery, but sometimes I get a neat email that makes it all worthwhile. Today, I got such an email from artist Roxanne Chinook: Coolidge’s,
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