Although rural Nevada casinos lost market share to urban areas in May’s revenue report from the Nevada Gaming Control Board, as the Business Press reported last week, slot-route operators are bullish on the boonies. Latest evidence of this is Golden Gaming’s’s acquisition of Pahrump Nugget Hotel & Gambling Hall. The buy gives Golden Gaming 38 acres [...]

Buried in the “In Brief” section of our sister publication, the Las Vegas Review Journal is a potentially fascinating item. Scroll down to the sixth blurb, “Wynn Las Vegas buying rights to show” and you’ll see the little-heralded news that Steve Wynn is forking over almost $16 million to buy erstwhile production partner Franco Dragone [...]