Casino Cirsa Valencia is sitting pretty—quite literally. Spain’s new casino is positioned on a privileged spot in the city, called the “access door” to Valencia and an arrival point to Ademuz, on Cortes Valencianas Avenue and opposite the Valencia Convention Centre.
NIGA’s chairman looks ahead to 2011, sharing that the association’s mission will be to support Indian gaming in Washington and to work toward the best benefits to its member tribes.
A new gaming law that imposes a 15 percent tax on players has been passed by the Bolivian government. Visitor numbers to the new casinos in Chile increased in October compared to the previous month. In this month’s look at recent headlines from Latin America, Marrison fills us in on happenings in Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina and Chile.
Take a few minutes from your important day and test your knowledge of issues that affect the performance of today’s table games. Please answer the following eight questions and an additional bonus question. The answers follow, along with citable sources.
There are many opportunities for customization on your gaming floor, whether it’s through architectural features like layout and floors or elements like chairs with your property’s logo. So why not go up, literally? Customized slot and gaming signage can draw player attention directly to the center of the action.
Here's the latest casino industry news, this month featuring IGT's agreement with the Cannery Casino, Bally's new appointment of Randy Hedrick, GLI's promotions and authorizations, Aristocrat and FutureLogic's agreement, BMM's RFP with the Ohio Lottery, eclipse's accreditation, and more.
The world wants to celebrate the purported upcoming second anniversary of the end of the Great Recession, and no industry more than gaming wants to have a reason to celebrate. Gaming revenue, however, is driven by consumer spending behaviors that depend upon disposable income to survive and thrive.
Gaming has always been an extremely lucrative business. That’s probably why the gangsters of old Las Vegas were attracted to it and why it was illegal everywhere except Nevada for so many years. If run smartly, gaming could produce 20 to 30 percent cash flows to the bottom line. Gaming has an interesting “follow the money” history.
The widespread implementation of free slot play awarded on the basis of a player’s theoretical or actual gambling loss has created two camps regarding the cost of awarding free slot play to a casino player—a payback camp and a free camp. Is the cost free play really free? It looks like both of these popular opinions are too simple to sum up the real story.
If you were to examine today’s broad spectrum of Class II gaming products, you probably would be amazed at the wide variety of devices and systems that are available, all of which have been designed to broaden players’ participation in the bingo experience. This includes electronic devices that can be played within the bingo hall alongside paper bingo cards.
