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Globalport CEO Michael Romero Planning New Philippines Casino Project
Reclaiming "lost" land is very much the vogue for casinos these days; Steve Wynn wants to turn a former old industrial site on the Mystic River outside of Boston into the new Wynn Everett, and on the other side of the globe,...
Caesars Breaks Off with Gansevoort Over Alleged Russian Mob Ties
Nothing breaks off engagements faster these days in the gambling universe than even the hint of a whisper of some wrongdoing in one of the party's dossiers; reason being, in the new strict and pure regulated environment of gambling, including land casinos...
Betfair New Jersey Ad Campaign Launched Before Actual Licensing
Whether on the Internet or on TV, the issue of advertising is always a delicate balance of audience inundation with turning that same audience off with a little too much drumming, and Betfair - the UK gaming site that is still technically...
Local Culinary Union Berating Cosmopolitan Tourists in Las Vegas
UPDATE: October 25, 2013 - Following the release of these videos - where Culinary Union Local 226 members were seen regularly throwing epithets and verbal abuse at tourists entering the Cosmopolitan - the union's protests have been put on hold until Nov. 1....
Supreme Court Judge Rejects Challenge to New York Casino Referendum
A New York State judge has rejected a challenge to the wording of New York's upcoming casino referendum, paving the way for voters in the state to vote on the measure in November. The lawsuit was dismissed by State Supreme Court Justice...
Adelson Funded iGaming Study Comes Out Swinging, To No One’s Surprise
The thing about studies is, you can generally get them to support just about any viewpoint on just about anything, depending on who's involved and how you interpret the data. And when it's mega-billionaire Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson funding the...
Caesars Gets A Little Less Stocky with 11 Percent Price Drop
In what's proven to be its biggest stock plummet in nearly a year, Caesars Entertainment Corp's offerings dropped by 11 percent on Tuesday, largely due to the trades failing to have rights to partake in its impending Internet divisions' IPO, it seems....
Borgata Awarded First New Jersey Internet Gambling Permit
There’s still about six weeks to go before New Jersey’s online gambling sites will go live for the general public, but the first casino has already been approved to provide games when that times comes. The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa was...
Hengqin To Vie for Chinese Tourism with New Chimelong Amusement Park
While the Chinese government is in no rush to legalize gambling in the country outside of Macau (the most lucrative gambling destination in the world), that doesn’t mean they aren’t interested in the currency burning a hole in the pockets of Macau's...
Lax (Not the Airport) Las Vegas Casino Security for Hotel Guests
If you head into any casino in the world, you know there will be plenty of eyes watching you. Nowhere is this more true than in Las Vegas, where cameras - known as "eye-in-the-sky" - appear to be everywhere in black demi-globes...