Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2003 | 11:11 a.m.
Firm extends Sprint deal
Boyd Gaming Corp. of Las Vegas, operator of 13 casino properties in six states, extended a telecommunications services agreement with Sprint Corp. with a three-year, $1.4 million deal, the companies announced today.
The deal will increase bandwidth and data-transfer speeds, enabling the Las Vegas-based casino company to use videoconferencing and audioconferencing services to communicate between corporate headquarters and properties in Louisiana, Ilinois, Indiana and Mississippi.
Boyd, which operates Sam's Town, the Stardust hotel-casino and three downtown hotel-casinos in Las Vegas, is extending a deal with Sprint first signed three years ago.
Former MGM MIRAGE director joins expanded board
D. Boone Wayson, a former member of the board of directors of MGM MIRAGE and Mirage Resorts Inc., has joined the board of Wynn Resorts Ltd.
Wayson, principal of Lothian, Md.-based Wayson's Properties Inc., a real estate development and holding company, since 1970, also served as president and chief executive of the Golden Nugget Atlantic City from 1984 until the property was sold in 1987.
He also is either an officer or director for Double Paces Stable Inc.; Venture Farms Inc., Cambridge, Md.; and Wayson's Properties Inc., Boone Estates Inc., 3W LLC, all of Lothian.
With Wynn Resorts, Wayson will be on both the board's nominating and corporate governance committees.
Wynn Resorts Ltd., which is developing casino resort properties in Las Vegas and Macau, expanded its board to 10 members with the appointment of Wayson.
Mammoth casino plan OK'd
LAKE CHARLES, La. -- The Army Corps of Engineers has approved Pinnacle Entertainment's plan to build a $325 million resort and what is expected to be Louisiana's largest riverboat casino, a Port of Lake Charles lawyer said.
The Corps sent a final consent form to the port for Pinnacle to sign so the project can begin, port lawyer Mike Dees said. Las Vegas-based Pinnacle is expected to sign the final documents early next week with an official groundbreaking to follow by the end of the month.
The proposed 225-acre casino resort is the largest development in the history of the port. Plans call for the resort to open in 2005.
The resort will be one of the largest casino resort projects under way in the country outside of Las Vegas and Atlantic City. It will include a hotel tower with 700 guest rooms and suites, 28,000 square feet of meeting space for conventions, five restaurants and a championship golf course.
The casino will be one level surrounded on three sides by the hotel and restaurants. It will offer more than 1,500 slot and video poker machines and 60 table games.
Man fined for 'Net gambling
FARGO, N.D. -- A former Harwood man has pleaded guilty to placing sports bets over the Internet, in what one gambling law specialist says is a rare case.
Jeffrey Trauman pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge in East Central District Court in Fargo on Monday. Judge Norman Backes gave him a one-year deferred sentence and fined him $500.
I. Nelson Rose, a professor at Whittier Law School in California who has studied gambling law for 23 years, said about half the states still have laws against gambling.
The North Dakota attorney general's office said it began investigating Trauman last spring, after receiving a tip.
Trauman, who currently lives in Kentucky, declined comment.
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