This Week in Gambling

Las Vegas is hosting it’s first Super Bowl! But the big game is not the only game in town! Several Super Bowl events and various ancillary events will take place, offering a weekend experience packed with gridiron greats, entertainment and more. An exclusive CBS Las Vegas Residency will take place the week of the Super Bowl, with The Fountains of Bellagio serving as the backdrop of the network’s central broadcast location, which will also air the game itself. The week long, multi-platform coverage will take place from Monday, 5 February to Sunday, Feb. 11. Featured programs include CBS Evening News…

Are you ready for some football? It’s Super Bowl week Vegas, as the Chiefs and 49ers square off in Super Bowl LVIII, and we’ve got information on the major parties and events leading up to the big game! Plus, information on the pending strike and road closures in Sin City! It’s Super Bowl week in Sin City as nearly half a million people are expected to descend on Las Vegas this week for the Super Bowl. This while there’s talk that hospitality and culinary workers, along with bus drivers, would all walk off their job. So the question on everyone’s…

Rest easy, my friends. There well be no Super Bowl strike. The union that represents Las Vegas hospitality and culinary workers says it has canceled a strike deadline for one hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas and reached a tentative agreement with six others. The agreements prevented a walkout on Monday morning, the first day of Super Bowl week in the city. A tentative five-year deal covering around 1,000 workers was reached between the Culinary Workers Union and the Golden Nugget, Binion’s, Four Queens, Fremont, and Main Street, the union reported on Saturday. A provisional agreement to avoid the Super Bowl…

Las Vegas bus drivers and mechanics will not initiate a strike, as members of Transit Union have reached a tentative new contract. Representing approximately 1,200 employees, the union’s spokesperson announced the deal via email on Saturday morning. The next procedure involves 1637 members voting on ratifying the contract, as outlined in the email. Throughout the negotiation period, the union had been operating under a temporary agreement, which has now been succeeded by the tentative new contract. “We are very pleased with the outcome and are excited to present the final offer to our membership,” said Terry Richards, Union president. Had…

The threat of another Las Vegas strike involving culinary and hospitality workers is over… almost. Originally, there were about 20 resorts in danger of seeing about 8,000 workers walk off their jobs. This was a separate work stoppage ultimatum from the union in the past year, with the first coming in October. The deadline for this latest Las Vegas strike was pushed back from Friday to Monday, as progress was being made in talks between the resorts and the union. Several of the original 20 properties were able to reach deals with their workers, and by last week there were…

We’re rapidly approaching one of the biggest sporting events on the planet, and Super Bowl betting is already taking place. It’s not just happening in Las Vegas, either. All across America there are people in nearly 40 states placing wagers. However, if you’re playing in the big game, you best not be one of them. The National Football League is implementing stricter gambling policies dealing with Super Bowl betting. And in fairness, the new rules will only apply to players and coaches on the two teams playing in the game. Those new rules state that all players on one of…