5349 stories by Casino.org Staff Writer
Colorado Springs Mayor Calls For Stronger State Constitution Laws to Block Casinos
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers (R) is reaching out statewide to voters urging them to support a November referendum that would make it drastically harder to amend the state's Constitution. If passed, the odds for any sort of future gambling expansion would...
MGM Resorts Launches Ad Campaign Attacking Connecticut Airport Casino
MGM Resorts International has launched an online ad campaign attacking plans for a casino at Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport, across the border from its $950 million resort, currently under construction in Springfield, Massachusetts. The plans for a casino at Bradley International have...
Paddy Power Pays Out on Rio Olympics Boxing Controversy
Irish bookie Paddy Power has paid out on all bets that backed Michael Conlan to win the bantamweight quarter-final at the Rio Olympics, even though, officially at least, he didn’t. Conlan believed he had done enough to soundly beat Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin...
Illegal Gambling Room Murder Suspect Arrested in Austin, Texas
A suspect in an illegal gambling room murder in North Austin, Texas, has been apprehended. On August 8, a botched robbery of a criminal gaming enterprise ended with one woman dead and two men injured. A male suspect remained at large until...
Paddy Power Betfair Reports £47.5 Million Loss Due to Costs of Merger
Paddy Power Betfair has reported operating losses of £47.5 million ($62.6 million) for the first half of 2016 in comparison with profits of £106.5 million ($140.5) for the corresponding period of 2015. CEO Breon Corcoran this week attributed the losses to one-off...
Indiana Casino Union Does What Trump Taj Mahal Workers Couldn’t: Reaches New Deal with Majestic Star Riverboats
Indiana Governor Mike Pence, the current GOP vice-presidential contender, has put his state on the map for financial gains and growth during his administration. Now a new casino union contract in the Hoosier State is also showing up its sister chapter in...
Duterte Takes Shock U-turn on Online Gambling
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s hardline crackdown on online gambling took an unexpected twist this this week. On Tuesday the government’s gambling operator-regulator, PAGCOR, announced that it was prepared to license online gambling firms that targeted “non-locals” and that it was in the...
Macau’s Studio City Will Default on Debt, Warns Analyst
Studio City Macau, Lawrence Ho and James Packer’s $4.5 billion integrated casino resort on the Cotai Strip is in trouble and could default on the $1.41 billion loan used to complete the construction of the hotel. That’s the word from rating agency...
NBA Veteran Guard Jamal Crawford Adds Name to Athletes Mixed Up in Gambling Scandals
NBA veteran Jamal Crawford is opening up about a substantial debt he endured stemming from illegal gambling following his rookie season. In a new biographical piece published in ESPN's The Undefeated, the 16-year vet says he lost about $100,000 in a two-day...
Sportradar Lands NHL Contract to Monitor Suspicious Betting Patterns
Sportradar has been hired by the National Hockey League (NHL) to monitor suspicious betting patterns on its games in Nevada and around the world. In June, the NHL became the first major sports league to approve a franchise in Las Vegas. The...
