Orville Erickson could hardly believe it but his wife, Dorothea, says she "just had a feeling" it might be a lucky weekend. Orville Erickson hit a $2.98 million jackpot on a nickel slot machine ...

Circus Circus has expanded on its status as the only Strip casino still offering coin-operated slot machines by installing $5 coin machines to go alongside its $1 machines. The slots are a throwback ...

At this week’s Global Gaming Expo, Steve Des Champs won’t be tied down to his company’s booth. United Coin Machine doesn’t have one. For the Nevada-based slot machine route operator, every day is the ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — Jeanette White gripped five quarters with dirt-stained fingers and plopped them into a boxy video poker machine named Fortune 1: Clang! Clang! Clangclangclang! The machine’s ...

This is the kind of return you’d love to get on every investment, right? Especially if you’re a fan of people hitting the jackpot on a nickel slot machine. We don’t know much about who pulled this off ...

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“Slot Machines Are Illegal,” proclaimed an Idaho Statesman headline on March 25, 1903. “In response to an inquiry by county attorney A.H. Darbyshire of Albion, Cassia County, Attorney General John A.

The energy on a casino floor is something Las Vegans know well: anxious players, flashing lights, ringing bells, bemused dealers and the communal celebration when a jackpot is hit. It’s palpable, ...