Now, almost two decades later, they are trying to make a much bigger killing by using information technology to outsmart the glitziest casino of them all - the financial markets.

As a result, American Indian leaders have joined up with corporate hustlers to erect glitzy casinos on reservations.

(If glitzy casinos are such fun, why is Nevada's suicide rate the nation's worst?)

As well as glitzy casinos, cool bars and hot nightspots, you can also catch shows and spectacles that are the equal of anything to be found around the world.

In gracious, leafy suburbs and glitzy casinos, in gritty urban streets and cavernous armories, the bustle of movie making is back in the state where it all started.

The capital, Oranjestad, is a busy cruise port with glitzy casinos, big hotels and shopping malls.

Vegas developers are on a demolition bender - this is the fourth hotel to fall in three years - to make room for bigger, glitzier casinos.

He objects to such a facility rising anywhere else, like miles away on the Strip, where the glitziest casinos operate, which is not part of the Las Vegas that he is the mayor of.

In November, they celebrated the start of a $275 million project to transform an eastern Connecticut factory into a glitzy casino, the Mohegan Sun Resort, which is to open in October.