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Unlucky Seven-Year Descent as Atlantic City Falls Below $3 Billion
It’s amazing what a difference seven years can make. Atlantic City - which was going strong and winning $5.2 billion from gamblers in 2006 - has seen seven straight years of declining revenues, culminating in the city’s 12 (now 11) casinos bringing...
New Jersey Online Gambling Pays Off Bigtime for Lobbyists and Lawyers
Everyone knows that when it comes to gambling, the house always wins. In the case of online gambling in New Jersey, it seems that the lobbyists and lawyers do pretty well for themselves, too. Support Services Make Bank According to disclosures posted...
Adult Entertainment Expo Brings the Sin to Sin City
Las Vegas has built its legacy on not only its casinos, but on the promise - overt or otherwise - of sex, drugs and rock n' roll. While ironically prostitution is, in fact, illegal in Clark County - the county in which...
Nevada Casinos Can’t Win for Losing for Fifth Straight Year
It was bad news and sort of good news for the Silver State's casinos when Nevada's Gaming Control Board released their annual Gaming Abstract Report late last week. The bad news was that Nevada's 263 combined casinos experienced a fifth straight year of...
Big Banks Refuse to Process Legal Online Gambling Transactions
Everything seemed so hunky dory: Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey all got legal online gambling - or at least poker, in Nevada's case - up and running in 2013, and except for a few issues with geo-location snafus, overall, the sites in...
Maine Casinos Oppose Expanded Gambling in State
We may not agree with them, but we know there are plenty of reasons that people may oppose more gambling in their state, from moral objections to worries about problem gambling. But in Maine, gambling is finding an unusual opponent: the casinos...
Genting Gambles in Florida with Uncertain Results
They say money talks, but in Genting Resorts World's case, it's not been speaking as loudly as the company might like. Despite pouring $236 million into a 14-acre waterfront Miami spread back in 2011 and then sprinkling millions more into pressuring state...
MGM 2014 Outlook Points to Overall Growth and Recovery
Looking for investment ideas for the new year? Consider MGM Resorts, is the word coming down from gaming analysts who are bullish on the gaming outfit. According to experts, MGM Resorts International hasn't had such a bright outlook in quite awhile; the...
PartyPoker to Sponsor Devils, 76ers for Advertising First
Sports betting may be the most heavily restricted form of gambling in the United States, but let’s be honest: everyone knows how to place a bet on their favorite teams if they want to, whether that’s with their local bookie or at...
Chinese Online Lottery 500.com Pays Off Nicely for Investors
Investors in Chinese online lottery platform 500.com Ltd. are off to a happy start to the New Year; in the six weeks since its New York Stock Exchange birth, the value of the company has almost tripled from its initial public offering...
