Construction has stopped on a portion of the Cosmopolitan's west tower while some floors go through a redesign, according to several sources familiar with the project. Additionally, a reliable source familiar with the industry said Deutsche Bank, which owns the USD 3.9 billion project, signed an agreement Thursday with Hilton Hotels Corp. related to the project. Deutsche Bank does not have a license to operate a casino...

Noch bis morgen geht im Caesars Palace in Las Vegas die 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship über die Bühne. Gestern wurde in die zweite Runde gestartet. Mit dabei unter anderem Sam Farha. Eli Elezra, Phil Laak, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Scotty, Nguyen, Vanessa Rousso, Tom Dwan und Daniel Negreanu. Titelverteidiger Chris Ferguson musste sich gestern in der ersten Runde gegen Gabe Kaplan geschlagen geben.

Von 6. bis 8. März geht im Caesars Palace in Las Vegas die 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship mit 64 Spielern über die Bühne. Mit dabei natürlich die ehemaligen Champions Chris Ferguson, Paul Wasicka, Ted Forrest und Phil Hellmuth die ihre Ehre und ihren Sieg verteidigen werden und versuchen einen zweiten Titel zu holen.

Las Vegas (AP) - MGM Mirage Inc., the gambling company owned by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, said Tuesday that it may default on its debt amid development of its biggest casino project ever, the USD 8.6 billion CityCenter in Las Vegas. Unless the economy turns around and more people start gambling again, the Las Vegas-based casino company believes it will break its loan agreements this year, it said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Last year, Las Vegas gaming revenue fell to 2005 levels. On the Strip, which generates more than half of the state’s gaming revenue, gamblers lost USD 6.1 billion last year. That’s about what they lost in 2005 — a boom year with revenue soaring 13 percent from a year earlier. No industry wants to go backward. But considering the stock market has plunged to 1997 levels and homes may take decades to return to their peak values of a couple of years ago...

At the height of an unprecedented national crisis, a group of American leaders traveled to one of the country's most expensive tourist destinations, where they set about the business of righting the ship of state. There were plenty of distractions in their decadent surroundings, and many in the group gambled nightly. These were not banking executives secluding themselves at Mandalay Bay to salvage their assets or develop a plan for mitigating their toxic loans.

Kathy Liebert "Ich kenne den Preis für Erfolg: unermüdlicher Einsatz, schwere Arbeit und eine unerschütterliche Hingabe für die Dinge, welche man erreichen möchte" – Frank Lloyd Wright. In der Pokerszene gibt es viele Spieler, die anfangs jede Menge Glück haben und denken die Glückssträhne wäre eine gute Ausgangsposition zu einer Karriere als Poker Pro. Es ist ja nichts falsch daran zu träumen, fast jede professionelle Pokerkarriere hat wohl mit einem Traum begonnen

There are moments when it seems Mayor Oscar Goodman is all alone with his insistent visions of downtown redevelopment, including a robust gaming scene. But he’s not. The Texas-based operators of Fremont Street’s most venerable slot and buffet joint, the Golden Nugget, appear to be on the same page. Now is the time, they say, to build a new hotel tower — despite the deepening economic crisis and the declining number of people coming downtown to gamble.

Las Vegas: Travel north on the Strip, past the glittering islands of the Bellagio, Excalibur, Venetian and other resorts, and — keep going — it finally appears like a worn-out showgirl at the end of a parade: downtown. Here, Binion's, Main Street Station, Four Queens and other casinos — "vintage Las Vegas," as downtown's promoters like to call it — beckon the budget-conscious amid wedding chapels, older bars, check-cashing stores and a few newer attractions like an outlet mall.

Plans have been filed for the first new casino in downtown Las Vegas since 1979. The developer, Forest City, is hoping to build the new property on a 6.4-acre site in the Union Park development west of downtown. In exchange for the land, Forest City has agreed to first build a new city hall funded by between USD 150 million and USD 267 million in bonds.

Egal ob er mitten im Winter in Dänemark Poker spielt oder im Hochsommer in Las Vegas, man wird ihn nur selten ohne seinen kastanienbraun/gold gestreiften Schal am Spieltisch vorfinden. Manchmal sieht der 23-jährige aus, wie ein italienischer Harry Potter Verschnitt, welcher noch nicht alt genug ist, um Hogwarts zu beenden, obwohl er eigentlich ein echter Pro ist, welcher bei Turnieren um Millionenbeträge pokert. In nur einigen Jahren hat sich Minieri vom Online Gaming Kid zu einem der Top Spieler Italiens entwickelt.

Las Vegas - One of the developers planning to build a USD 5 billion casino resort modeled after the Plaza Hotel in New York says they have agreed in principle with lenders to extend a loan used to buy the land. Israeli-based Property and Building Corp. said in a Thursday statement that Elad IDB, a joint venture with New York-based Elad, has received an extension to repay a USD 625 million loan until August 2012.