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Hard Rock International to Buy Shuttered Trump Taj Mahal
Carl Icahn will sell the Trump Taj Mahal to a consortium of investors led by Hard Rock International. The property will remain a casino and will be rebranded the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City as part of a $300 million...
Prediction Markets Tilt in President Donald Trump’s Favor, Following Congressional Speech
Prediction markets are no longer under the impression that President Donald Trump's first term will be a failure. Following his first address to a joint session of Congress this week (which even his foes have largely praised), political bettors are moving towards...
Downtown Las Vegas Continues Hot Streak, Nevada Casinos Top $1 Billion in Revenue
Downtown Las Vegas is on a roll, and the district situated north of the famed Strip is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Thanks largely to the Fremont Street Experience, casinos in the downtown area saw their gaming revenues jump...
Johnny Manziel Pleads His Case to NFL Teams, Odds Favor Comeback
Johnny Manziel is one of the most famous figures in all of football despite throwing only seven touchdowns in his career. The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner was released by the Cleveland Browns a year ago this month, but over the last 12...
Macau Hits Two-Year High in February as VIPs and Mass Market Celebrate Chinese New Year
Macau’s gross gambling revenue soared to a two-year high in February, rising 18 percent on the previous month and notching up its seventh consecutive month of growth. Slowed growth in January had prompted fears that talk of a full rebound for Macau...
Does Kevin Durant’s Injury Strengthen Cavaliers’ Title Odds?
Kevin Durant is expected to miss considerable time after hyperextending his left knee during last night's game against the Washington Wizards. Not only did the team with the best record in the NBA lose the game, but Golden State also lost its...
Ex-Amaya Chief David Baazov, Facing Securities Fraud Charges, to Go to Trial in November
David Baazov, the man who ran gaming operator Amaya Inc. until just about one year ago, will stand trial in a Quebec court on November 20, charged with five counts of securities fraud. The date was decided at a hearing on Tuesday...
Massachusetts Casino Good for State Lottery, and State Coffers
Plainridge Park, the first Massachusetts casino, has provided great benefits for the state's lottery system, and has helped deliver new forms of tax revenue to Boston. In recently published reports, the University of Massachusetts' School of Public Health Sciences says the slots...
FOBT Stakes Reduction Would Lead to 20,000 Job Losses, Says UK Betting Industry
A proposal by the UK government to reduce the stakes of fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) would cause 20,000 job losses and threaten half of the nation’s bookmaking shops with closure, according to new betting industry research seen by The Times. It would...
Did New Jersey Just Legalize an Online Lottery Without Anyone Noticing?
New Jersey lottery tickets could soon be available online, thanks to a bill passed in December that appears to have legalized online lottery sales right under our very noses. AB 3094, which was signed into law two weeks ago, flew completely under everyone’s...
