How many people can say they built the world’s biggest hotel three times? Kirk Kerkorian can.

How many people can say they built the world’s biggest hotel three times? Kirk Kerkorian can.

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.

Star poker players Phil Ivey (pictured), Stanley Choi and Johnny Chan played a charity game at Sands China Ltd’s Venetian Macao on Friday to launch a new Poker King Club promoted by Macau VIP junket room investor Suncity Group Ltd.

UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research is looking for former and current pit bosses to participate in an oral history project.

Backers of a new international center for gaming regulation at UNLV are seeking $500,000 in annual state money.

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.

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.'"

The Jeju provincial government in South Korea said this week it has launched a study aimed at increasing the tax yield from the holiday island’s casinos. The results of the study will be announced in July, said Korea Bizwire, an online news outlet.

What are the odds that voters approve a casino at the Brockton Fairgrounds?

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority says they’ve got a pretty good idea who visited the destination last year.

Nevada poker revenues were down about 8 percent year over year in February, continuing a trend of diminishing take from poker tables in Las Vegas and throughout the state.