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...Donald Trump fights to save his Atlantic City casino empire, he might cast an envious eye at booming Las Vegas. The desert Mecca of hype and high rollers is on a winning streak. Las Vegas casino revenues surged nearly 12% last year, to $3.2 billion, at a time when the take at Atlantic City grew just 2.6%, to $2.8 billion. The hot hand encouraged Las Vegas hoteliers to add 10,000 new rooms in the past year alone, a 16% increase. Last week more than 50,000 gamblers and gawkers flocked to the opening of the world's largest hostelry...
...Las Vegas has prospered by becoming a year-round vacation spot for middle- class families, who typically stay as long as a week. By contrast, Atlantic City appeals largely to bettors who arrive by bus and leave the same day. "Atlantic City has to try to become a destination resort, which means that it has to be a place where folks want to go," says Steve Wynn, chairman of Golden Nugget, which opened the $617 million, 3,200-room Mirage hotel complex in Las Vegas last November. Adds Wynn: "Las Vegas hasn't exactly been tasteful or elegant...
Players and rubberneckers are four hours into the big, no-limit World Series of Poker freeze-out here at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas. Maybe 170 players are left of the 194 who began chasing the $835,000 first prize with $10,000 each in chips. From three tables away, a raspy Texas drawl cuts through the watery green air of Binion's cardroom. Amarillo Slim Preston is telling stories, fogging his opponents with rascally nonsense. Something about beating somebody in 312 straight games of gin rummy. Something about riding a camel through a casino in Marrakech. Preston...
...reportedly living in Southern California, has said through third parties that he is in the U.S. to vacation and conduct "a broad survey of American society." So far, he has visited the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. His friend Lu Keng, a Hong Kong journalist, says this "research" will keep Xu in America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says the former envoy...
...Jersey Shore rocker ditched his wife, broke up his band, recorded a version of Elvis' Viva Las Vegas and bought a $14 million Beverly Hills estate. Is the Boss trying to become the King...