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In the days before the Chinese New Year celebration began this week, six high rollers sat down at the private baccarat tables one day at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and began throwing down wagers of $100,000 to $200,000 a hand. It was a scene hardly out of place these days in Sin City.
Mike Moser scored 14 points and No. 14 UNLV's reserves combined for 28 points, fending off preseason Mountain West favorite New Mexico 80-63 on Saturday night.
TCU's shot at contending with No. 14 UNLV on Wednesday night was gone moments after the opening tip.
Anthony Marshall had a career-high 27 points, Mike Moser added 16 points and 15 rebounds and No. 14 UNLV routed TCU 101-78 on Wednesday night.
CBS Sports is opening its fantasy sports platform to third-party developers, allowing them to sell league-specific apps that will likely make this year's games a lot more competitive for millions of players and — developers hope — the $800 million per year fantasy sports industry even more lucrative.
The nation's newest Miss America is a 23-year-old Wisconsin brunette who had long conversations with her family mulling whether or not to make her father's jail time for mail fraud the heart of her campaign in the beauty pageant.
The Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino officially changed its name to drop its hotel chain moniker on Tuesday after a license agreement expired at the start of 2012.
The fight to fully legalize online gambling in the U.S. is now less about whether Americans will be able to play and more about who will bring the action to them — and when.
Arizona State wasted a record-setting game for receiver Gerell Robinson and repeated chances to hang with No. 8 Boise State Thursday night in the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas, falling 56-24 and failing to send off outgoing coach Dennis Erickson on a winning note.
Doug Martin rushed for 151 yards and returned the opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown, giving No. 8 Boise State a lead 14 seconds into the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas on the way to a 56-24 win Thursday night.
A professional poker league that's trying to become the PGA Tour of poker is giving card icon Doyle Brunson its first lifetime player card, making him automatically eligible to play all future tournaments.
During a normal eight-hour shift on the Las Vegas Strip, Michael Denicoli usually sells enough helicopter tours of the Grand Canyon and Sin City to fill two or three choppers. But since a crash killed five people this week and made international headlines, tourists who walk by his booth are skipping the splurge of a few hundred bucks for a bird's eye view of the Hoover Dam and other sites.
Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner is on a panel of seven judges who will pick next year's Miss America during a pageant in January in Las Vegas.
Sheldon Adelson, the world's richest casino executive and chief of the industry's largest publicly traded company, says he opposes online gambling because he doesn't believe available technology is good enough to prevent young people from making wagers on the Internet, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Nevada has agreed with officials in California to make a run at hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics at Lake Tahoe, in hopes of bringing the games back to an area where they were held in 1960, Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said Wednesday.
Never mind "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Perhaps the new slogan for America's gambling capital should be "Stop over for a quickie in Sin City."
A French investment group hoping to buy an online poker operator dogged with legal troubles in the United States has a preliminary agreement with prosecutors that would broker a sale and help gamblers get their money back.
Earlier this year, Pius Heinz was deciding whether to play cards full-time.
Casino operators MGM Resorts International and Boyd Gaming Corp. are teaming with a major European online poker operator to prepare to offer Internet gambling in the United States if it's ever explicitly legalized.
Casino-resort developer and operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. said Thursday that its third-quarter net income doubled from a year earlier as it kept a tight rein on operating expenses.
Card professionals Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson have been voted into the Poker Hall of Fame, joining the likes of card legends Doyle Brunson, David "Chip" Reese and Stu Ungar among poker's most influential figures.
Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman was known to swill gin and bring showgirls everywhere while he was in office. Now, the booze and girls are back as he opens his namesake steakhouse Dec. 15.
Music legend Stevie Wonder plans to headline in Sin City on New Year's Eve, playing to a ballroom crowd at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and to thousands of revelers on the Las Vegas Strip by video.
Casino operator Wynn Resorts Ltd. said Wednesday that its third-quarter net income was $127.1 million, compared with a loss of $33.5 million a year earlier when it paid off debt.
ESPN and the World Series of Poker are changing the way the finale of the $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold `em main event will unfold among players and viewers.
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