Rascal Flatts launch their nine-show Vegas Riot! residency at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas on February 25, and the guys are turning the trip into a family affair. Lead singer Gary LeVox plans to bring his family out for the first week, but his 14-year-old daughter, Brittany , wants to hang out in Sin City for the entire run of the show.

If you match the winning Powerball numbers on Feb. 11, 2015, you could win $485 million. The jackpot is Powerball’s biggest jackpot more than a year.

As a result of brisk ticket sales, Georgia Lottery officials announced today that Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot was bumped from $450 million to $485 million. Six winning tickets worth $10,000 were sold in Woodstock, East Point, Columbus and Athens from Saturday’s drawing.

DJ Pauly D hosts his Super Bowl 49 pre-party at Vanity on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, in the Hard Rock Hotel. DJ Pauly D, of “Jersey Shore” fame and a headliner DJ here in Las Vegas for years now, has become a full-time Las Vegas resident and watched Britney Spears’ hit resident show “Britney: Piece of Me” on Monday night at Axis at Planet Hollywood.

Wednesday’s estimated $485 million Powerball drawing is the third-largest jackpot in the multistate lottery’s 23-year history. It’s the fifth-largest overall jackpot in the U.S., behind Mega Millions whoppers of $656 million in March 2012, and $648 million in December 2013.

The launch of a high-profile global advertising campaign for Macau’s biggest casino operator that was due to star David Beckham has been scrapped just 48 hours before its planned roll-out amid turmoil at the top of the company and an unprecedented slump in the fortunes of the world’s biggest gaming hub. Two days before the launch of its “never settle” campaign – widely promoted on both traditional and new media platforms as having at its centrepiece a movie starring a mystery “world famous celebrity icon” – the Venetian Macao yesterday announced that Thursday’s launch event and the campaign had been “postponed until further notice”.

High yielding Las Vegas Sands had a rough 2014 as a crackdown on corruption by new leadership in China led to the worst year for Macau gambling in over decade. The stock recently appears to have bottomed and the shares appear to be oversold.

SUE DOOLEY IS THE SENIOR DRAWING MANAGER FOR THE MULTI-STATE LOTTERY ASSOCIATION, WHICH OVERSEES POWERBALL. SHE SAYS THE ESTIMATED VALUE OF WEDNESDAY’S DRAWING WILL BE $450 MILLION.

In this April 20, 2005, file photo, the green arm of the “Insanity” ride is seen atop the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas. The Stratosphere casino-hotel is hoping its mission to “Take Vegas Back” gets as much attention as its iconic 1,149-foot tall tower.

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Sue Dooley is the senior drawing manager for the Multi-State Lottery Association, which oversees Powerball. She says the estimated value of Wednesday’s drawing will be $450 million.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. saw a significant growth in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 19,257,815 shares, a growth of 31.2% from the December 31st total of 14,677,560 shares, Stock Ratings Network reports.

Police said a bronze plaque stolen from Mark Twain’s gravesite in upstate New York has been recovered in good condition. In a statement to media, the Elmira Police Department said the 12-by-12-inch likeness of the American writer was recovered Saturday.

The after-party for the 18th annual DICE Awards was a revelrous one: Two open bars, some pretty good food and a parade of industry insiders buzzing about Pete Holmes’s jokes or the surprise winner of the Game of the Year award, EA’s Dragon Age: Inquisition. Although Intel has started to make amends for its role in legitimizing the anti-woman harassment campaign in 2014, most of the gaming industry has remained mum .

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Fourth-quarter revenue dropped 25.1% to $1.14 billion and net income fell 48.9% to $109.3 million on the back of declining VIP revenue in Macau. These are unquestionably bad numbers, but beyond the headline figures Wynn Resorts has a few positives going forward.

The Stratosphere casino-hotel’s new marketing campaign, which masquerades as a cause, is appealing to a crowd of likely Las Vegas Strip visitors that’s less keen on nightclub bottle service or high-priced fine-dining and more interested in cheap drinks and freebies. “A great getaway has become a phoney, fancy-pants ego trip,” says the casino-hotel’s “everyman-ifesto” posted on its website.

Leading China’s anti-corruption campaign, President Xi Jinping warned Macau last December that the world’s biggest gambling hub needs to be about more than baccarat. Now, the reform drive has new champions – the casino operators.

Networking, hob-nobbing, and schmoozing were the order of the day at the 2015 DICE Summit, as this is the industry’s rare annual show to informally forbid all matter of announcements. No new games, systems, peripherals, engines, or even DLC packages reared their heads, which meant that higher-level industry conversations took the lead.

Jessica Simpson shared a fresh-faced photo with her 1.1 million Instagram followers on Saturday. The 34-year-old looked cute and casual in a sweatshirt and a milkmaid braid as she congrulated her friend, celebrity event planner Mindy Weiss, on her new book: By the looks of her Instagram account, the mother of two certainly has enough adorable photos of Ace, 1, and Maxwell, 2, to fill up the baby keepsake book in no time.