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Caesars Settles Creditor Lawsuit
Caesars has convinced one of its junior creditors to drop litigation and agree to its bankruptcy reorganization plan, a sign that this could be the beginning of the end of the group’s protracted chapter 11 proceedings. Caesars is attempting to put its...
CSGO Lounge Shuts Down Skin Betting operations
CSGO Lounge, the internet’s biggest skin betting site, has pulled the plug on its virtual-item gambling operations. Around a month after Valve, the creator of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, moved to close down the betting industry that had grown up around its hit...
Ryan Lochte Rio Olympics Robbery Tale Scrutinized by Brazilian Officials
Olympian Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers at the games are under investigation by Brazilian officials for allegedly fabricating a story about being robbed at gunpoint in the wee hours of the morning in Rio de Janeiro this weekend. Early Sunday morning,...
Steve Wynn Won’t Back Trump
Steve Wynn will not be backing his old pal Donald Trump in the presidential elections, despite the Donald’s assertion at the Nevada caucus that Wynn was an informal adviser. But then again nor will Wynn be backing Clinton. Instead, the casino mogul,...
UNLV eSports Course Highlights Changing Nature of Casino Industry
The UNLV eSports course recently announced by the university's International Gaming Institute (IGI) is attracting plenty of attention not only from perspective students but also the casino industry as a whole. Earlier this month, the IGI said the innovative new curriculum will...
Arkansas Petition Could Force Constitutional Ballot on Casino Gaming
A bid to expand casino gaming in Arkansas could be granted on the November ballot. The Arkansas Winning Initiative (AWI), which is behind a push to change the state constitution to authorize up to three casinos in the state, said this week...
NeuroMama OTC Stock Trades Halted by SEC After $35 Billion Valuation Hits
Click on NeuroMama's investor website and you're likely to be a tad confused as to what the company is about. With graphics that are plebeian to say the least, and messages that range from a Baja California project to one written in Russian Cyrillic,...
Rogue Trading Sites Set up Shell Businesses in Scotland
Unregulated binary options trading sites, at which customers can lose thousands making high-risk fixed odds-bets on financial markets, are being set up in Scotland as shell companies, according to an expose by Scottish newspaper The Herald. Despite strict financial and gambling...
Gambling Industry Approaching Saturation in Northeast United States
The gambling industry in the northeast region of the United States was confined to Atlantic City for decades. The first legal commercial casino opened in the New Jersey beachfront town back in 1978, and until the early 1990s Atlantic City largely enjoyed...
Anti-Gambling Groups May Sue New York to Repeal New DFS Law
New York and Massachusetts this month became the seventh and eighth states to regulate daily fantasy sports, respectively. But in New York this week the backlash came, as anti-gambling groups emerged to voice their displeasure and consider their legal options. Many believe...