The historical centre, with its string of small casinos and its neon cowboy, once seemed glitzy.
These days most casinos will not even let you smoke, much less punch or shoot your way to a prize.
Revenues at the nine existing casinos in the south of Illinois are down by 32% over the last three years, according to the Illinois casino Gaming Association.
But as the fancy new resorts on the Strip lured away more and more tourist traffic, downtown Vegas declined into a collection of worn-out casinos and - down motels .
Massachusetts residents spent $890m in Connecticut casinos in 2005.
Banks were said to be casinos, bankers bashed as greedy thieves.
A new exhibition of 007 book covers charts the changing image of the suave British spy and his world of fast cars, luxury casinos and alluring women.
And the geography of wealth has changed. The small tribes near Los Angeles and New York (where the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes run huge casinos) are now among the richest.
The town is notorious for its casinos.
The surge in casinos is one of the most striking signs of Westernization.
Regularly, on roads leading away from casinos, rescue workers peel the wreckage of cars from trees into which their penniless, panic-stricken drivers have smashed them.
I don't play golf, go to the pub, stay out late with the lads or go to casinos, and so the deal with my wife is that she doesn't ask how much the wine costs.
Their hope is to draw players away from underground and overseas casinos and generate funds for social programmes.
Las Vegas Sands, which has struggled to meet its debt payments and suspended a Macao expansion project late last year, operates the world's two largest casinos in the tiny territory.
The low-roller casinos flew flags at half-mast.
Today, the 1.4 million Estonians have embraced capitalism so eagerly that the streets of Tallinn, the capital, are lit up all night long with the neon portals of a dozen casinos.
Moving from city to city, he spent countless nights at card tables in smoke-filled apartments that acted as secret casinos. He hardly ever lost.
As one of various incentives to high-rollers, casinos offer a rebate to them whether they win or lose.
We have been involved in both the new construction and renovation of hotels, resorts, condominiums, service apartments, casinos and clubs around the world for more than 30 year.
When you move casinos, you take your players with you.
It is just one of many new casinos in Macau.
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