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Walking through the doors of Hollywood Casino Toledo, guests step back in time. Elegant chandeliers, art deco columns and classic movie posters from the Golden Age of Hollywood offer a glimpse of the glamorous life—the life guests get to live while they’re at Toledo’s new Hollywood Casino.

In spring 2011, the Mississippi River swelled and washed over everything in its path, but the Fitz Casino & Hotel Tunica in Robinsonville, Miss., stood calmly in the midst of it all. Resembling a castle on its own island, a portable cofferdam called a Portadam® kept the Fitz dry—and for that, the Director of Facilities Cecil Hanks is thankful.

In this installment of our “Where’s the Money?” series, we dig into the analytical challenges posed by another great game in gaming, WMS’ Clue™. This great game combines an online experience with a traditional in-casino experience. Let’s take a look at the data we have to work with.

I recently received a novel promotion that caught my eye. This particular promotion grabbed my attention because of its layers of incentivization. These layers were all designed to inspire a wide range of behaviors and seemed to have a nice balance of both short- and long-term rewards. The offer contained a mix of incentives.

Walking through the doors of Hollywood Casino Toledo, guests step back in time. Elegant chandeliers, art deco columns and classic movie posters from the Golden Age of Hollywood offer a glimpse of the glamorous life—the life guests get to live while they’re at Toledo’s new Hollywood Casino.

In spring 2011, the Mississippi River swelled and washed over everything in its path, but the Fitz Casino & Hotel Tunica in Robinsonville, Miss., stood calmly in the midst of it all. Resembling a castle on its own island, a portable cofferdam called a Portadam® kept the Fitz dry—and for that, the Director of Facilities Cecil Hanks is thankful.

In this installment of our “Where’s the Money?” series, we dig into the analytical challenges posed by another great game in gaming, WMS’ Clue™. This great game combines an online experience with a traditional in-casino experience. Let’s take a look at the data we have to work with.

I recently received a novel promotion that caught my eye. This particular promotion grabbed my attention because of its layers of incentivization. These layers were all designed to inspire a wide range of behaviors and seemed to have a nice balance of both short- and long-term rewards. The offer contained a mix of incentives.

On June 21, 2012, the Nevada Gaming Commission approved the first interactive gaming licenses pursuant to the recently enacted regulations governing Internet gaming. Specifically, within a span of a couple of hours, Bally Technologies and International Game Technology (IGT) each received unanimous approvals from the commission to be licensed as a manufacturer of interactive gaming systems and as an interactive gaming service provider.

The AGEM Index reached a composite score of 125.05 by the mid-point of 2012. After declining in both April and May 2012, the index increased for the first time since March 2012. The 6.69-point increase (+5.7 percent) in June was attributable to positive stock price performances for 12 of the 17 global gaming operators. Those gains were offset by the balance of suppliers posting downturns in their valuation month to month.