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Station Casinos to Acquire Palms in Las Vegas for $312.5 Million
Station Casinos will buy the Palms Hotel and Casino Resort in Las Vegas for $312.5 million, the company announced during an earnings call on Tuesday, May 10. Earlier this month, Station, trading under its new corporate name Red Rock Resorts, raised $531.4...
Lindsey Graham Sneaks RAWA-Like Measure Into Senate Appropriations Bill, Still Hopeful for Passage
The Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), the bill that seeks to prohibit online gambling at a federal level, may have died a death on the legislative rocks late last year, but its proponents are by no means finished. Which is why...
Online Gambling Fugitive Haden Ware Spared Prison
Haden Ware, a co-founder of sports betting site World Sports Exchange (WSEX) who spent 13 years as a fugitive from the US government, has been spared a prison sentence by a federal judge. Ware was a pioneer of online gambling through his...
Bernie Sanders Goes After Casino Industry and Donald Trump While Campaigning in Atlantic City
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D) paid a visit to Atlantic City on Monday while campaigning in New Jersey, and the Vermont senator had few good things to say about the seaside town. Speaking at Boardwalk Hall, Sanders told his supporters that...
Amaya Online Poker Platform Full Tilt Reaches End of the Road on May 17
Full Tilt Poker, once a kingpin of the American online poker scene during the game’s Internet heyday, will soon be fading into history. As of Tuesday, May 17, 2016, the Full Tilt poker platform will cease to exist, as site owner Amaya...
TVG Makes Hash of Kentucky Derby
Betting handle on Saturday’s Kentucky Derby was the second highest in the race’s history. Some $192.6 million passed through the bookie’s hands, just short of the record set in 2015 when American Pharaoh took his first step on the road to Triple...
Donald Trump Receives Presidential Support From Fellow Billionaire Sheldon Adelson
Donald Trump is rich. Sheldon Adelson is a lot richer. Trump is estimated to be worth $3 to $10 billion, depending on who's counting, and the New York businessman has largely self-funded his primary campaign. But now that he's the presumptive GOP...
“The Perfect Bet” Shows Link Between Science and Gambling, According to Mathematician Adam Kucharski
British mathematician Adam Kucharski says in his debut book "The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling" that scientific pursuits and the development of the modern world have benefited greatly from gambling. Now, you might not...
UK Comedian and Gambling Archaeologist Tim FitzHigham on Digging Those Odds: Exclusive Interview
Gambling is all about speculating on future events, but to British comedian and adventurer Tim FitzHigham, it’s about digging up the past. Tim’s research has seen him, variously, cross the English Channel in a bath tub, attempt to break the year 1755...
April Sees Maryland Casinos Push Past $100 Million for 17 Percent Jump, Market Now Halfway to Atlantic City
Maryland casinos cruised past the $100 million monthly revenues benchmark in April for the first time since commercial gambling came to the state six years ago. The five casinos, Hollywood Casino Perryville, Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, Ocean Downs, Maryland Live!, and Rocky Gap...
