Frankly, it says more about the securities business than the gaming business.

Pollard has also worked full and part time in the gaming business since 1978.

Webb had said last March that it was leaving the gaming business to concentrate on real estate.

"He gave his body and soul to Gtech for eight years, helping make it a giant in the gaming business."

Hilton said spinning off its gaming business is also a possibility.

There have already been well-publicized failures in the online gaming business.

The buyers hoped to use the Speedway as a training ground to learn the gaming business before moving on to other acquisitions.

Now, officials and analysts have said, Hilton's stock price is being held back by its association with the gaming business.

But Sony dived into the gaming business, and with great success.

The company will be able to focus its energies on the gaming business, which has been performing very well.