• Nevada's total population: 1,998,257
• Nevada's annual gaming revenue exceeds $9.5 billion
• MGM Grand Inc. announces the purchase of Mirage Resorts Inc., creating the largest corporate buyout in gaming history (to date)

• Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa and Casino opens in Henderson; the hotel and casino is a joint venture between Station Casinos and Greenspun Corporation
• Harrah's Entertainment acquires Harveys Casino Resorts

• Mandalay Resort group opens THEhotel
• Non-gaming resort revenue surpasses gaming revenue

• Nevada's gaming revenue exceeds $10 billion per year
• Harrah's Entertainment purchases Horseshoe Gaming Holding Corporation, which included downtown Las Vegas' Binion's Horseshoe and the World Series of Poker
• Boyd Gaming Corporation merges with Coast Resorts
• MGM MIRAGE announces plans to buy Mandalay Resort Group
• Harrah's Entertainment reaches a definitive agreement to purchase Caesars Entertainment
• Harrah's Entertainment plays host for the first time to the World Series of Poker. $41 million in prize money awarded, more than double the amount in 2003

• Nevada's total population (est.): 2,441,080
• Wynn Las Vegas opens on Las Vegas Strip
• MGM MIRAGE announces Project CityCenter, an “urban metropolis”; its projected cost would rise to more than $7 billion, making it the largest privately funded construction project in U.S. history
• Golden Nugget is bought by Houston-based Landry's Restaurants
• MGM MIRAGE's acquisition of Mandalay Resorts and Harrah's Entertainment's acquisition of Caesars Entertainment both become final

• Nevada's annual gaming revenue exceeds $12.6 billion
• Boyd Gaming Corp. announces Echelon Place, a $4 billion project that will be located where the Stardust currently exists; closes Stardust
• Private equity firms Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group offer to purchase Harrah's Entertainment for more than $17 billion
• Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta and Colony Capital LLC, operating as “Fertitta Colony Partners,” make an offer to purchase all existing shares of Station Casinos at $82 per share and take the company private
• Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa opens in Summerlin, Las Vegas

Sources: Nevada Historical Society; Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority; Michael Green (Community College of Southern Nevada); David Schwartz (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Center for Gaming Research); “Roll The Bones: The History of Gambling” by David Schwartz; Gotham Books, 2006; and Nevada Magazine, March 2006.