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Wynn Palace Macau Opening Delayed, as Angry Mogul Waits for His Tables
Wynn Palace Macau, the $4.1 billion mega-resort currently under construction on the Cotai Strip in the Asian gambling region, is running three months behind schedule. Wynn Resorts said this week that the property will now open on June 25, 2016, due to...
Pennsylvania Online Gambling Push Receives Boost from House Committee
The Pennsylvania online gambling effort received renewed hope today, as the Gaming Oversight Committee passed a bill that would legalize online casino gaming and poker by a majority of 18-8. Bill HB 649, introduced in February by Representative John Payne, would regulate...
Amaya CEO David Baazov is Bullish on Company’s Stocks, Snaps Up Paper Following Price Drop
David Baazov has been called the "King of Online Gambling" by Forbes, and now the 35-year-old Amaya CEO is hoping to prove his business savvy and managing of the largest poker network in the world will translate to big gains on Wall...
$78 Billion Online Gambling Ring Smashed by Chinese Police
A $78 billion online gambling syndicate with tentacles spreading across Asia has been smashed by Chinese police. Authorities said that the ring oversaw more than 500 websites with over a million signed-up customers on the Chinese mainland. The websites mainly operated illegal...
John Oliver Spends Majority of His Show Ranting About Daily Fantasy Sports
John Oliver has full creative reign for his HBO Sunday program "Last Week Tonight," and he devoted the overwhelming majority of his most recent episode to the controversy surrounding daily fantasy sports (DFS) and its connection to gambling. The former fill-in for...
Hacker Group “Anonymous” Targets Terrorists Over Payment Processors
Call them Terrorist Haters Anonymous, if you will. But the group that lives up to its name is for once planning to bring down the bad guys with their own bad boy hacking skills. Yup, the vigilante collective known as "Anonymous" is...
Atlantic City Casinos Lose Cash Live But Not Online
Atlantic City's network of live casinos suffered another downswing in October according to the latest results released by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE). Breaking down the latest financial happenings inside AC's brick and mortar gaming venues, the DGE's report...
Fontainebleau Resort Goes on the Market for $650 Million
Fontainebleau, the big, ambitious $3 billion Vegas Strip megaresort that never was, is up for sale. Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider who rescued the unfinished project from bankruptcy in 2010, is asking $650 million for the property, according to CBRE Group,...
Texas Governor Slams State Regulator’s Online Gambling Ambitions
Texas officials must cease their line of inquiry into legalizing online gambling, Governor Greg Abbot said this week. In a letter to the Chairman of the Texas Gambling Commission, Abbot said that a state prohibition on gambling expansion is in place to...
Global Poker Index and USA TODAY Sports Partner to “Sportify” Game
The Global Poker Index (GPI) and USA TODAY Sports Media Group are joining strengths in a shared mission to "sportify" the game of poker and revolutionize how it's played. Acquired by Internet entrepreneur Alexandre Dreyfus in 2012 under his Mediarex sports and...