Unlv Gaming Podcast

46-September 21, 2012 Mark Brandenburg President and co-owner, Golden Gate casino, Las Vegas Interview in which Brandenburg discusses the history of the Golden Gate, his own tenure as president, the development of the Fremont Street Experience, and the latest renovation and expansion of the property.   Listen to the audio file (mp3)   Golden Gate casino

A new podcast is up:  45-June 22, 2012 Doug Smith and Todd Barrett Interview with the president of the Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club and the edtior of Casino Collectible News from the site of the 2012 CCGTCC convention. Listen to the audio file (mp3) Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club Casino Collectible News  

The 44th UNLV Gaming Podcast has just been posted. It's an interview with the author of "You Want What??? Concierge Tales from the Men and Women Who Make Las Vegas Dreams come True," recorded 05/25/2012 at UNLV..

    Podcast 43, featuring April Research Fellow Christopher Wetzel is up:     43-April 12, 2012 Christopher Wetzel Wetzel is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College. His project looks at how issues of race, class, and gender have shaped debates over gaming legalization since the 1930s. His talk examines how casino proprietors, civic organizations, and elected officials in Nevada have framed subsequent efforts to establish pari-mutuel wagering and a state lottery. Listen to the audio file (mp3) View flyer (pdf)  

42-April 5, 2012 Lynn Gidluck Gidluck is a doctoral candidate in history and public policy in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her current work includes a cross-national comparison of how governments around the world distribute revenues from state-directed gambling and how these choices have been justified by proponents and vilified by critics. She is particularly interested in examining cases where governments have collaborated with the voluntary sector to promote and justify gambling expansion through the delivery of public services from gambling revenue Listen to the audio file (mp3) View flyer (pdf)

41-March 29, 2012 Kathryn R.L. Rand and Steven Andrew Light This talk, "Gambling Law and Legal Education: Educating Lawyers, Forming Identities," was delivered at Boyd Gaming School on March 27, 2012 as part of the gaming law program's continuing commitment to legal education. Rand and Light are the co-directors of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy at the University of North Dakota. Listen to the audio file (mp3) UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy

Scott and Melanie Russell The Russells have recently published a unique Las Vegas guidebook, Betcha Missed It--Las Vegas! that doubles as a guide for new visitors and as a game. In this interview with CGR Director David G. Schwartz, they discuss how the got the idea for the book, their favorite places in Las Vegas, and much more.   Listen to the audio file (mp3)   Betcha Missed It website   Betcha Missed It for sale on amazon.com

  We've got a new podcast up:   39-March 14, 2012 Jessalynn R. Strauss Strauss is an assistant professor at Xavier University. Her teaching and research interests include public relations, corporate social responsibility, nonprofit organizations, and the history and culture of Las Vegas. She recently completed a dissertation examining corporate social responsibility in the Las Vegas casino industry. Her colloquium talk examines the history of public relations and promotions by Las Vegas casinos. Listen to the audio file (mp3) View flyer (pdf)  

Santoro is a thirty-year verteran of casino security who has worked executive protection, conducted investigations, and managed security departments for two of the biggest names in the business, Steve Wynn and Donald Trump. In this January 31, 2012 interview, Santoro discusses his career in casino security, issues facing casinos and other public and private sector organizations today, and Interbrief.org, his security/risk management consultancy.

In this December 20, 2011 interview, the second of a two-part series, Steelman discusses several of his projects, Atlantic City's Steel Pier, and the future of casino architecture

In this Gaming Research Colloquium talk, Thomas Norman discusses his research. Norman is a Fellow in economics at Magdalen College, Oxford. His research is in game theory, and his project at UNLV is the game-theoretic study of poker. In particular, his work extends a standard model of poker to the case where players can bet any amount from their stack, and analyzes how this modification alters game-theoretic predictions. More more information visit http://gaming.unlv.edu

In this November 8 interview, Sarno Award-winning casino architect Paul Steelman reflects on his career in the field and shares his thoughts on Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and several other casino jurisidictions. Part I of II. For more information, see http://gaming.unlv.edu

October 20 interview with Palms founder and chairman George Maloof, conducted by David G. Schwartz. For more information, see http://gaming.unlv.edu

In this November 2, 2011 interview following his induction into the Gaming Hall of Fame, Professor Eadington reflects on his career in gaming studies, starting with his youth in Orange County, California, continuing through his decision to pursue a career in economics and his subsequent emphasis on gambling and casinos, and finishing with his thoughts on the future of gaming studies. Among the topics Dr. Eadington discusses are the foundation and development of the International Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking, the expansion of gambling in the past decades, and the changes he has seen in the study of gambling over his 40-year career.

In this October 6, 2011 talk to the Yale Club of Nevada and other invited guests, Center for Gaming Research director David G. Schwartz looks at where Las Vegas might be headed over the next 5 years and answers questions on a variety of casino-related topics.

"Taming Vice: How Machines and Architecture Changed the Culture of Gambling" Lee is a doctoral candidate in the department of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation looks at the taming of vice in the context of postcolonial urbanism. Taking as his sites the recent casino developments in Singapore and Macau, he looks at how architectural design, urban planning and other environmental technologies help to draw the line between what is tolerated and what is not. His work at the Lied Library focuses on the historical evolution of gaming machines as part of this larger trajectory.

March 24, 2011 Benjamin Min Han, Gaming Research Colloquium "We're Right Next Door': Televisual Las Vegas in Cold War America." Han, currently a graduate student in cinema studies at New York University, is looking at how television performances helped to shape perceptions of Las Vegas. Since World War II, Las Vegas has evolved into an entertainment capital of the world. While we often associate Las Vegas with gambling and casinos, many foreign ethnic talents arrived in the city to perform in hotels and nightclubs. These talented performers were instrumental in the development of televisual Las Vegas. This talk explores the migration of ethnic talent, and how such prominent Las Vegas entertainment business figures like Jack Entratter and Bill Willard envisioned transforming the city into a primary center of television production from the 1950s to 1970s.

Interview with Wynn Las Vegas Pres and CEO Marilyn Winn Spiegel, 2/17/11. For more info, see http://gaming.unlv.edu

UNLV Gaming Colloquium talk, 2/24/2011, "'Dark with Excessive Bright'": Gambling Tells and the Naming Taboo." For more information see http://gaming.unlv.edu

Interview with Cantor Gaming Pres/CEO Lee Amaitis, 2/23/11.  For more info, see http://gaming.unlv.edu