NFL betting market shaping up in Las Vegas

From Sporting News The LVH SuperBook released its NFL season win totals and games of the year point spreads on Sunday. The SuperBook, the first Nevada shop to post lines on NFL Week 1 games, followed with numbers on 80 more games on Sunday. Heading into the final full week of May, the LVH joins Cantor Gaming as the only Las Vegas sports books to have NFL point spreads open for betting – and there are some big differences in opinion between the two shops on a few teams, most notably the New England Patriots. — The SuperBook opened the…

Nevada gambling revenue tops $194M

From Elko Daily Free Press Nevada casinos won $914.8 million in March, posting a 7 percent increase from the same month a year ago with much of the gains attributable to the high-roller game of baccarat, the state Gaming Control Board reported Friday. Wendover’s revenue was up 7.6 percent and the rest of Elko County saw an 8.9 percent gain. The March statewide winnings pushed the fiscal year-to-date total to nearly $8.4 billion, 2.8 percent more than last year. Taxes collected on the March win totaled $78.3 million, an increase of 9.6 percent. The Las Vegas Strip posted a 13.1…

Casino Bosses Transform Sin City into Club City

To step into club XS at the Wynn Las Vegas in Sin City is to enter the dream of a modern artist with fetishes for gold and bronze and bodies in motion. A golden-plated frieze made from casts of nude women sits atop a shimmering staircase. Waves of electronic dance music grow louder with each downward step toward a pulsating, football field-sized club where lasers cut the air above thousands of dancers. The revelers take their cues from the famous DJs onstage who are known to surf the crowd in inflatable rafts, throw sheet cakes at clubbers’ faces and spray…