While Stiffs and Georges often points out that Sands Bethlehem isn’t doing great business for Las Vegas Sands corporation, the casino is now the #1 revenue producing casino in Pennsylvania . Last month Sands was the leading revenue-generating casino, while Parx fell to #2. Parx’s 172 tables brought in $9,674,727 in revenues last month, down from just under $10.3 million in July, but up from $6.3 million a year ago... Read more

This weekend the SugarHouse casino in Philadelphia , PA celebrated its first birthday . Hooray. Where’s my piece of cake?! Of course, like the rest of the casino business not everything is A-OK. Though SugarHouse has no competition in the city and a vast population to draw from, first-year gross revenue was $212.2 million, less than half what market leader Parx generated and 40 percent less than at Harrah’s Chester... Read more

New York City is getting closer to casino gambling. Aqueduct Raceway and Resorts World Casino , in Jamaica, NY have already received their first order of slot machines which will be installed by next month . The first of the new Aqueduct casino’s 5,000 gaming machines were delivered to the track this week and will be installed soon in anticipation of the facility’s late October opening. This kind of snuck up... Read more

Here is the latest Seven Stars Insider newsletter. This is good information if you are a Harrah’s player and a Total Rewards card holder and has now been tailored for all levels of card holders. The newsletter doesn’t teach you how to “game” the system, but rather how to maximize your comps. Sign up for the newsletter here . NOTE: While this newsletter was originally designed exclusively for Seven Stars cardholders... Read more

In light of the pending implosion of The Harmon , Vegas Inc. decided to list the Top 10 Vegas Strip Hotel implosions. I love implosions and figured this was a good excuse to visit the youtube archives. For the next couple of weeks I’ll grab video of these 10 Las Vegas Strip Hotel implosions. We go to #6 on the list – El Rancho . Opened: 1982 Closed: 1992 Imploded: Oct. 3, 2000 Originally the Thunderbird... Read more

It wasn’t too long ago that sports betting meant that you placed a bet at the begging or halftime of a game, you watched the game, and then collected on your win afterwards. Sports betting is one of the few games in the casino that if you are skilled enough, you can win. These types of games are pretty much limited to sports betting , poker , and blackjack . (ED: Craps has better odds than all if you can find... Read more

Caesars Entertainment big dog, Gary Loveman , was interviewed on CNBC today and said that their Atlantic City properties lost about $6-$8 billion dollars being closed because of Hurricane Irene . However, he did say that the government couldn’t have done a much better job closing the market and taking precautions. The only other interesting bit of information here is that there is ZERO stock footage of Caesars Entertainment... Read more