For 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 gamblingAs I said yesterday, I was lucky enough to volunteer to help facilitate UNLV’s Debate Watch event yesterday. You can read about the debate itself from the LVRJ: Hyped as the single most anticipated night of the long presidential campaign thus far, Thursday marked the first time in history a presidential debate was held in
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life in vegasToday my office is a few hundred yards from the center of a media firestorm, through no fault of my own. The Democratic Presidential debate is happening at the Cox Pavilion right here on campus. From the LVRJ: It’s fight night in Las Vegas. The jabs will fly. The contenders will duck and weave. They
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life in vegasWorking 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
As promised, here’s information about the latest Author Event sponsored by UNLV Libraries and the Center for Gaming Research. Steve Friess, who you might know as one of the most famous Vegas podcasters around, will be speaking at UNLV November 8. From the CGR website: WHAT: Steve Friess, author of GAY VEGAS, will speak, answer
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life in vegas, what's newThis 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 vegasThis 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 woke up at quarter of four this morning to get down to Caesars Palace to do a radio interview that aired live in Manchester. It was for the lunchtime (12-2) show, with host Allan Beswick, and was a lot of fun. As you might have heard, Manchester is slated to get the UK’s “supercasino,”
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what's newI was just given a copy of the minutes of a meeting that a researcher found in UNLV’s University Archives. I’ll let you read the funny part: Meeting of the Biology Faculty October 9, 1968 MINUTES Meeting called to order at 10:05 AM. Members present: Murvosh, Deacon, Niles, Yousef, Austin, and Storm. Babero arrived late
I’ve always hoped that, just as I spend most of my working (NOT waking) hours documenting and preserving the history of the gaming industry, there is someone, somewhere who is cataloging the decline and demise of gaming. My wish has come true. From the Evening Sun: The battle fought over a failed proposal to build
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gambling & culture, haphazard worldThose of us who like to talk about Las Vegas have lost a true friend. Hal Rothman, a brilliant environmental historian who became a real pioneer of the academic study of Las Vegas, passed away on Sunday. Here’s a story from the LVRJ: Hal Rothman, the oft-quoted expert on all things Las Vegas, died Sunday
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