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The conference will be held with the support and direct participation of the project team of the Russian Affiliate Congress & Expo (RACE). The Smile Expo Company will be the organizer of the conference.

Gansevoort Hotel Group is joining Caesars in renovating the small, now-closed Bill's Gamblin' Hall at the corner of the Strip and Flamingo Road.

The company plans to unveil the 1,620-room SLS Las Vegas in fall 2014.

A $1.35 million chunk of the total is slated for two ceramic cooling towers at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s central plant.

It's not like I've never made a mistake . . . but no one took more pleasure in correcting my judgment recently than Boyd Gaming Corp. CEO Keith Smith.

During the first month of 2013, 3.13 million people came to Las Vegas, down 0.7 percent from January 2012's total of 3.15 million visitors.

At the company's annual meeting in Las Vegas on Tuesday, IGT said shareholders decided to replace board member David Roberson with Daniel Silvers, president of Ader Investment Management of New York.

Caesars Entertainment Corp. reportedly offered to sell the off-Strip Rio and the World Series of Poker to PokerStars, a spokesman for the owner of the online gaming business claimed in an email Tuesday.

The initial phase of its Resorts World Las Vegas will include 3,500 rooms and a 175,000-square-foot casino.

The 2013 edition of Casino City's Indian Gaming Industry Report is now available. The report, authored by Dr. Alan Meister, an economist with Nathan Associates Inc., is the most comprehensive, up-to-date study of Indian gaming available.

Analysts from Institutional Shareholder Services issued its report late Tuesday after reviewing proxy statements from both IGT and a group headed by analyst-turned-investor Jason Ader and former IGT Chairman Charles Mathewson.

Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who died Monday at 80, was an active poker player in Las Vegas, especially at the World Series of Poker, where he was a participant for decades.

IGT did not disclose the $10 million purchase of San Francisco-based BringIt Inc., when the deal was completed in February 2012. Nor did IGT disclose the relationship between IGT CEO Patti Hart and the investment bank, Pagemill Partners of Palo Alto, Calif. Hart's husband, Milledge Hart, is one of nine managing directors at the firm.

In the past, several men have entered the women’s event, paying the $1,000 entry fee and citing gender equality, since women are allowed to enter every other World Series of Poker bracelet events.

The 2013 World Series of Poker schedule was released last week, and poker players and fans around the globe immediately started drooling at the prospect of playing in a number of the 62 events that make up this year's slate. Casino City's Aaron Todd found 10 great events to watch for, and if you can, play in, this year.