LINCOLN, Calif. Just weeks after the opening of its new steakhouse High Steaks and with the opening of its new hotel, spa and pool around the corner in July, Thunder Valley Casino Resort recently received seven KCRA A*List Awards including its first Best Steakhouse and its fourth consecutive Best Casino award. The NBC affiliate station announced the winners online.

Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative information technology and hospitality software solutions, has announced that Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort in Suquamish, Wash. has selected a comprehensive software suite by Agilysys, including solutions for property management, point of sale, guest marketing and document management, to streamline operations at the 85-room …

The CEO of the new $3.9 billion Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas casino says it will open in mid-December with about one-third of its rooms delayed until July 2011. It is likely to be the last major new casino-resort likely to open on the struggling Las Vegas Strip for at least a few years.

Las Vegas-based MGM Mirage has once again landed on an important national list of the nation’s top companies for diversity.
The casino-resort operator is the only Nevada-based company and the only gaming company on DiversityInc’s 2010 Top 50 Companies For Diversity list issued Wednesday.

Deutsche Bank AG, which foreclosed on and is completing the Cosmopolitan casino resort in Las Vegas, said Thursday it wrote down the value of the project by another 75 million euros — or $103 million. The write-off reflects Deutsche Bank’s reduced profitability expectations for the resort that is due to open later this year.

Bids are due Friday from companies and individuals wanting to buy the bankrupt Fontainebleau casino-resort development project on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday gave contractors 10 days to come up with more than $200 million in cash and a bond if they want to continue pressing for the right to buy the casino resort project with a credit bid.

A little-known Las Vegas company has expressed interest in acquiring the bankrupt Fontainebleau casino-resort project. Craig Road Development Corp. sent a letter to Fontainebleau’s bankruptcy judge.

The retail portion of the idled Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino resort filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday — introducing a new set of creditors and controversies to the massive case.

Investor Carl Icahn will be the stalking horse bidder for the mothballed Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino resort, offering $156 million in cash and financing Monday and outbidding Penn National Gaming. During a hearing in Miami’s bankruptcy court, Penn National Gaming initially competed with Icahn but then dropped out of the bidding after going as high as $145 million. Penn National last week offered $101.5 million — $50 million in cash and a loan of $51.5 million to be the stalking horse bidder.