Another blessed summer is coming to a close. Farmers are reaping the final harvest. Many of us are gathering for the last of our picnics and family reunions until next year, and our final summer ceremonies and pow wows are taking place all throughout Indian country. This means it soon will be...
Having strong, intelligent and passionate women to look up to has a significant impact on children’s perception of a woman’s place. Too often, the women of Las Vegas are portrayed in movies and on television as “arm candy” or as a pretty face serving drinks at the craps table. The reality is...
The gaming industry has long been thought of as a man’s world. Pop culture portrays casino management as mysterious with strong male role models who have dark and murky backgrounds. Its vendors are usually depicted as powerful, all-male executive boards making sweeping decisions while...
New table games and gear products for August 2014 include Bally Technologies—Fusion Hybrid™, Galaxy Gaming—WPT Heads-Up Hold’em and NOVOMATIC—Panther Roulette™.
Table game myths have been the basis of discussions and arguments for decades. In this installment, we examine five myths that persist in the industry today. The first three myths listed cover card counting, lucky/unlucky dealers and roulette dealers who boast of the ability to drop the roulette ball...
Fulfilling a goal of creating fully integrated leisure design experiences, YWS Design and Architecture is doing more than just designing projects. With headquarters located in Las Vegas, the 14-year-old firm specializes in hospitality, gaming, retail, dining and entertainment—the core aspects that...
Mark Bryant, president and founder of Micro Gaming Technologies, is the living embodiment of finding a need and filling it. In the late 1980s as an employee of a small computer company, he began to get an increasing number of calls to work on computer issues for the Pioneer Hotel and...
The gaming world has changed dramatically since 2007, and to respond to this change, management practices have also needed to change dramatically. To understand how these new management practices emerged, let’s take a time warp back to the period from 2000 to 2007...
It was no surprise when the announcement finally came that the world’s largest lottery company GTECH was buying IGT, the world’s largest slot manufacturer, for $6.4 billion. After all, the two companies had been in talks for weeks, and the sale appeared imminent. And it’s just the latest...
In this month's What's Shakin' J. Brin Gibson Was Appointed to a Second Term as Colorado River Commissioner, Jumer’s Casino & Hotel Names David Wolf New President and General Manager, Casino Lisboa Names JCM Global Preferred Bill Acceptor Supplier and much more...
