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eSports Innovator Rahul Sood Stresses Importance of Casinos Reaching New Demographic
Rahul Sood was yet another speaker at last week's Global Gaming Expo (G2E) that stressed the gambling industry's need to reach out and attract a new demographic of players, specifically a younger audience. His remarks came a day after Caesars CEO Mark...
Macau Junket Operator Neptune Group Pleads With Chinese Authorities as Revenues Plummet
Macau junket operators are folding faster than poker players with 7-2 offsuit, with one of the gambling mecca's largest operators stressing this week that times are indeed grim there. The Chinese government is on a crusade to crackdown on its residents, with...
Millennials Crucial to Casino Industry Growth, Executives Claim During G2E Roundtable
Millennials possess expendable income and are on the verge of settling down into their lifelong habitual behaviors, which is why this week several gambling executives stressed the importance of reaching that demographic in order to grow the casino industry. During a roundtable...
AGA Chief Geoff Freeman Attacks Illegal Gambling at G2E, Says It Is Not a Victimless Crime
Geoff Freeman, president of the American Gaming Association, kicked off the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas this week with a keynote speech that railed against illegal, unlicensed gambling and the threat it poses, not just to the casino industry, but...
Amaya Gets New Jersey DGE Regulatory Approvals, Meaning PokerStars and Full Tilt Can Now Move Full Steam Ahead
Amaya Inc. has at last received its New Jersey license, which means PokerStars and Full Tilt will be winging their way back to Garden State residents very soon. The regulatory approval comes almost four and a half years after the two sites'...
Las Vegas Culinary Workers Union Launches Anti-Station Casinos and Deutsche Bank Radio Spots
The Las Vegas Culinary Workers Union Local 226 has launched a local radio campaign in Nevada attacking Deutsche Bank, a major shareholder in Station Casinos, over its involvement with the Libor rate-rigging scandal. Deutsche Bank was forced to pay an unprecedented $2.5...
New Jersey DGE Grants Seal of Approval to Authorized iGaming Sites, But Controversy Remains
The New Jersey DGE, the state's gaming enforcement division, has released a seal of approval declaring that a given gaming website is an accredited and sanctioned online network for players. Accompanied by a die, the emblem reads, "DGE New Jersey Division of...
Nebraska Racetracks Launch Push for Casino Gaming
An effort to legalize casinos at Nebraska race tracks is underway, spearheaded by a group calling itself “Keep the Money in Nebraska.” The organization, as its name suggests, argues that gambling money should stay in Nebraska rather than flowing east to Iowa,...
Could John Boehner Resignation Impact RAWA Future in Congress?
US Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio) unexpectedly announced last week that he'll be retiring from Congress. The move comes 25 years after he was first elected to the 8th congressional district in the Buckeye State, and has been causing a major stir among...
Global Gaming Expo Casino Skill Gaming Among Hot Topics in Las Vegas
The Global Gaming Expo 2015 (G2E) hits the Sands Expo in Las Vegas this week, opening today, and it's the most anticipated casino and gambling exhibition of the year. And as casino industry stakeholders descend from all four corners of the earth...
