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Melco Resorts Owner Lawrence Ho Prefers Osaka Over Tokyo for Casino Destination
Melco Resorts owner Lawrence Ho doesn't feel that Tokyo should be the recipient of one of the two casino licenses expected to be issued by the National Diet later this year. Talking with Bloomberg this week, Ho opined that the world's most...
Ohio Casino Employees Will Soon Be Able to Gamble In-State
Ohio casinos are about to gain thousands of new prospective players, thanks to the people who work for them. The Ohio Senate voted on Wednesday 32-0 to remove a prohibition on casino employees gambling in any of the state’s four casino gaming...
NBA Finals Odds Favor Golden State Over Cleveland in Rubber Match Series
For the third straight year, the NBA Finals odds in Las Vegas favor the Golden State Warriors to win the Larry O'Brien Trophy over the Cleveland Cavaliers. But if history tells us anything, it's that the rubber match series is anything but...
Las Vegas Not Drunk Enough to Make List of Top 20 Booziest Cities
Las Vegas may be thought of as Sin City, but that doesn't mean the place is awash in booze 24/7. Well, actually, maybe it is. But when it comes to determining the drunkest cities in America, Las Vegas hasn’t got a thing on...
Rio Olympic Infrastructure Left in Economic Chaos, Was It Worth the Gamble?
The Olympics no longer have the upper hand in determining where its summer and winter games will be contested. That's because the international sporting competitions have left a path of destruction, both in a financial and infrastructural sense, in recent decades. Cities...
Hard Rock to Roll Dice on Trump Taj Mahal, Upping Renovation Budget to $500 Million
Hard Rock International doesn't like what it sees inside the former Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which the company purchased in March for $50 million. Billionaire Carl Icahn's bargain price selloff meant the Hard Rock was acquiring a Boardwalk property for...
Meadowlands Racetrack Owner Jeff Gural Patient Over North Jersey Casinos
The Meadowlands Racetrack owner who campaigned to end Atlantic City's monopoly on casinos in New Jersey last year says he's now willing to take a wait and see approach before resuming his efforts. Talking at the East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic...
Federal Sports Betting Ban Repeal “Discussion Draft” Introduced in House Committee
A US sports betting ban currently on the books has been there since 1992, when the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) was signed into law by then-President George H.W. Bush. A quarter century later, New Jersey's efforts to override that...
Aristocrat Leisure Hits Jackpot, Gaming and Slot Manufacturer Earnings Soar 53 Percent
Earnings for Aristocrat Leisure aren't taking a leisurely stroll on the Australian Securities Exchange, but instead racing towards record profits for the Sydney-based gambling machine manufacturer. Aristocrat revealed this week through its half-year fiscal financial report that its net profits for the six...
Soccer Generates Record £1.4 billion Revenues for UK Bookies
Soccer yielded a record £1.4 billion ($1.8 billion) in revenues for UK bookmakers in the full year from October 2015 to September 2016, according to figures released this week by the UK Gambling Commission. That resulted in all-time-high profits of £333.4 million...
