Gaming
Green Felt Journal
Will Video Games Go Vegas?
As slots are losing the youth market, gaming plans its next move
April 17th, 2013
“Gambling,” said John Acres at last year’s Global Gaming Expo, “is dead.” For support, the man who has been in the casino business for more than 30 years and invented the modern players-club card cited the plummeting appeal of spinning-reel machines for just about everyone under 40. Read more »
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Slot Revenues Fall, High-End Play Rises
February numbers show Vegas casinos’ increasing reliance on big players, especially those from Asia
April 10th, 2013
The numbers are in, and Nevada casinos had a good February overall, with the uneven results demonstrating a great deal about where gambling in the state is right now, and where it might be headed. Read more »
Vegas Looks Good Next to Atlantic City
March 22nd, 2013
Here in Vegas, we think we’ve got it bad. Total gaming win is still off its 2007 high, spending per visitor is down, and, with many companies overburdened with debt, the future is uncertain. But compared to Atlantic City, we are Macau. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
With Resorts World, Macau Comes to Vegas
March 19th, 2013
When Resorts World Las Vegas rises from the abandoned husk of Echelon Place on the north Strip, it will be very different from what Echelon would have been. And the differences tell us a lot about where Las Vegas has gone in the six years since the property’s 2007 groundbreaking. Read more »
Business
Of Bandits and Big Fish
February 28th, 2013
With the December 2012 financial numbers recently released by the Gaming Control Board, it’s finally time to close the book on 2012. What kind of year was it for Nevada’s casinos? Read more »
Gaming
Defining a Dark Allure
February 28th, 2013
The recent revelation that former San Diego Mayor Maureen O’Connor had reportedly embezzled more than $2 million from a charitable foundation to feed her gambling addiction has focused attention on pathological gambling. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
A Game-Changing Scholar
February 21st, 2013
Bill Eadington, quite possibly the formative figure in the academic study of gambling, died on February 11 at age 67. Even if you weren’t one of his students, never read one of his books or never heard him speak, you’ve benefited from his work. Read more »
Gaming
A Giant’s Departure
January 22nd, 2013
The January 7 announcement that American Gaming Association President Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. will step down from his post in June is an occasion to reflect on just how far the industry has come in the past 17 years. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
The Year of Hope and Holding Steady
December 6th, 2012
The people who run Las Vegas casinos were expecting a lot in 2012: a return to prosperity on the Strip, a revival downtown and a federal framework for online poker. They didn’t get everything they wanted, but at the end of the year, they’re still in the game, which might be a victory in and of itself. Read more »
Lottery Was Too Late for Nevada
September 6th, 2012
Last month, the Center for Gaming Research posted a paper by Gaming Research Fellow Christopher Wetzel that answered a question I get a lot: Why doesn’t Nevada have a lottery? Read more »
