David G. Schwartz In The News

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The Mirage volcano on the Las Vegas Strip is erupting less frequently, but not for any geological reason.
State and federal authorities are investigating a cyber-attack on four Atlantic City online casino gaming sites, which were apparently targeted by a hacker who promised more disruption unless a ransom was paid in Bitcoin, officials said today.
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How many people can say they built the world’s biggest hotel three times? Kirk Kerkorian can.
Las Vegas Review Journal
Before the recession sunk its claws into the Strip, Circus Circus routinely contributed $70 million to $80 million a year in cash flow to the balance sheet of MGM Resorts International.
Gaming Today
UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research is looking for former and current pit bosses to participate in an oral history project.
Las Vegas Review Journal
During the past decade, Penn National Gaming was named as a potential buyer of nearly every Strip resort that was for sale or rumored to be on the market.
C.N.B.C.
A few years ago, Wired theorized that bad carpeting is good for gambling. "That's a theory backed up by Dave Schwartz, Director of the Center for Gaming Research, at the University of Nevada Las Vegas," Pete Brook wrote at the time. "Schwartz theorizes that 'casino carpet is known as an exercise in deliberate bad taste that somehow encourages people to gamble.'"
What are the odds that voters approve a casino at the Brockton Fairgrounds?