Macau may not be hitting the astronomical growth targets set by excitable financial analysts, but the Chinese gambling enclave is still growing much faster than Las Vegas, the US gambling capital. The tiny former Portuguese colony - the only legal place to make bets in China - has posted a 47% increase in annual gambling revenue, outpacing Las Vegas and pushing it even further ahead of the Las Vegas strip in terms of total gambling revenue.

It is billed as the easiest way to visit New York, Venice, Paris and the Sahara in a single day. But a slick USD 650m monorail linking Las Vegas's famous casinos is in trouble - and its problems are causing a headache on Wall Street. Plastered with Vegas logos, the elevated train plies a route behind the vast hotels that line the Strip - the desert city's main thoroughfare, where tourists can peruse live lions...

Der seit fast drei Jahren andauernde Rechtsstreit zwischen dem Staat und dem Londoner Gutshot Poker Club ist nun endgültig beendet. In der letzten Verhandlung wurde Poker erneut als Glücksspiel deklariert und damit braucht jeder Kartenklub nun eine staatliche Glücksspiellizenz. Im Jahre 2004 wurde der Klub in der Clerkenwell Road von Derek Kelly eröffnet. Die Kartenklubs haben in Großbritannien eine lange Tradition und schnell gab es Tausende von Mitgliedern. Bereits im folgenden Jahr drohte jedoch schon die Schließung.

In Washington, D.C., leaders have been proposing economic stimulus packages, trying to figure out ways to jump-start the nation's sagging financial picture and calm fears of a recession. Las Vegas has its own way of surviving economic downturns -- build more Strip resorts. History has shown the Las Vegas economy rebounds from any economic slump when the Strip goes through a building boom.

MGM Mirage said on Friday its Monte Carlo Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip will reopen its doors for customers on Feb. 15 after being closed two weeks ago after a fire. The company said Monte Carlo plans to open with no fewer than 1,200 guest rooms available and management anticipates an additional 1,300 rooms will become available a week later. The remaining 500 rooms in Monte Carlo's 3,000-room inventory are located on the upper floors...

Las Vegas (AP) -- The city's casino industry has long rolled out the red lanterns for high-rolling Asian gamblers on Chinese New Year. This year, MGM Mirage Inc. is literally giving them royal treatment with a feast up to now reserved for China's official state guests. To prepare the repast, the casino giant flew in nine chefs, three managers and nine young female performer-servers from the Daioyutai State Guesthouse...

The international union organizing casino dealers on the Strip is forming a new gaming division to better focus its efforts to unionize locally. The Transport Workers Union of America’s top officials announced the new Las Vegas-based division during a special meeting that drew nearly 130 local dealers. "We’re committed to getting the job done and we’re not going away," the division director, Joseph Carbon, said.

In der Pokerszene ist Brandi Rose Hawbaker in den Jahren 2006 und 2007 durch einige ordentliche Platzierungen aufgefallen. So qualifizierte sich die attraktive Lady aus Los Angeles am 13. Oktober 2006 mit einem Einsatz von USD 1.000 für den drei Tage später stattfindenden USD 10.000 No-Limit Hold'em WPT Main Event in Las Vegas, landete hier auf einem respektablen 35. Platz und durfte dafür USD 20.875 in Empfang nehmen.

The nation’s fastest-growing city is poised to add more than 133 hectares of gaming development, which could bring as many as 2,500 hotel rooms - and a mini-Strip of sorts - to North Las Vegas. In Southern Nevada it’s the gigantic casinos that get noticed first. North Las Vegas, however, hasn’t had many towering projects of the type that defines areas and provides directional beacons across the valley - until now.

Finale im Grand Casino Baden. Michael Wider aus der Schweiz setzte sich am Samstag, den 2. Februar 2008 im Finale gegen weitere 24 FinalistInnen in einem äußerst spannenden Endspiel durch und sicherte sich so den begehrten Titel.

Investigators are finalizing the official report on the Monte Carlo fire, but named Union Erectors as having started the fire. On Friday, the company released a statement. Fire investigators say an employee of Union Erectors was cutting a piece of steel on top of the Monte Carlo without the proper permit or equipment. The Clark County Fire Chief says he should have had a matt to catch flying molten steel from his hand torch.

Last Saturday, while inspectors checked the MGM Mirage’s 32-story building for damage following the blaze that blackened the facade of the top floors, Ron Lynn, chief of the Clark County Building Department, said he did not know when he would permit the 3,000-room hotel to reopen. "It’s a little soon to tell," Lynn told The Associated Press moments before he and a team of six inspectors entered the building Saturday morning. "We haven’t completed the testing today. But there is no damage to the casino area."