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Trump Taj Mahal Closes for Good
The Trump Taj Mahal today became the fifth casino to shutter in Atlantic City in three years. At 6am this morning (Monday, 11 October), the Taj closed its doors for the last time, just hours after its former owner squared off in...
Amaya and William Hill in $6 Billion Merger Negotiations
Amaya and William Hill confirmed over the weekend that they are in discussions to merge. Their aim is to create a $6 billion Trans-Atlantic gambling powerhouse with greater scale and diversification. With similar market caps, the two companies described the proposal as...
Macau Casino Resorts Take the Pot During Golden Week
Macau casino resorts saw eight percent more visitors in the special administrative Chinese city during this year's Golden Week holiday than in 2015. Officially called the National Day of the People's Republic of China, Golden Week is actually a three-day annual holiday...
Nevada Legislature Convenes to Consider Football Stadium Funding
The Nevada Legislature is gathering this week to discuss the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee's (SNTIC) recommendation that $750 million in hotel occupancy tax revenue be allocated to help a billionaire build an NFL football stadium. In September, SNTIC unanimously suggested to...
Short Stack Donald Trump Shoves Against Hillary Clinton in Second Presidential Debate
Donald Trump entered the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton as the severe short stack. He's only hurt his chances over the last week after a video from 2005 surfaced with the Republican candidate boasting about grabbing women by the genitals. Before...
Skill-Gaming Millennial UNLV Students Create a Slot for Their Own Casino Generation
As skill gaming prepares to unleash itself on the casino floors of America, two enterprising young University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) undergraduates believe they may have come up with the perfect puzzle-game-slot hybrid. At just 20 years old, Troy Pettie and...
Florida vs. Seminoles Long-Standing Blackjack Battle Likely to Get Ruling
A federal judge in Tallahassee appears to be siding with the Seminole Tribe in their quest continue to offer “banked” card games at their seven Florida casinos. The case, of course, is more than just a row over a bunch blackjack tables,...
New Jersey Horse Racing Industry Petitions US Supreme Court to Open Barn Door on Sports Betting
The New Jersey horse racing industry is asking the United States Supreme Court to consider overturning previous decisions by lower courts that's blocking the state's wishes to legalize sports betting. Thoroughbred horsemen, led by Dennis Drazin who operates the Monmouth Park track...
NFL TV Ratings Drop the Ball, But Advertisers Aren’t Punting
NFL TV ratings are down through the first four weeks of the regular season. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), overall viewership is 10 percent less through September than it was in 2015. Nielsen ratings show the steepest...
Washington State Threatens Valve Corporation Over Skins Gambling, Underage Players at Issue
The Washington State Gambling Commission (WSGC) has ordered Valve, makers of the hit game Counter-Strike Global Offensive, to end the transfer of in-game designer weapons known as skins through its Steam platform. The ability of skins to be transferred to third-party sites...
