5349 stories by Casino.org Staff Writer
Atlantic City’s Revel Moves Forward Post-Bankrupcty
If you were going to plan the worst year possible for a brand new casino, it would probably look something like what has happened to the Revel Casino in the past 12 months. The Atlantic City casino opened in April 2012, and...
Powerball Jackpot Winner Could Be the Girl – or Boy- Next Door
For some reason, lottery and jackpot winners are never from, say, Beverly Hills, or Manhattan. Nope, they're always from some hokey little town that no one outside of its environs has ever heard of. So no one should have been surprised when...
Toronto Casino Plan Nixed by City Council
Canada’s biggest city won’t be getting a new casino any time soon. The Toronto City Council has voted against a plan to build a new casino in the city, dashing the hopes of many major U.S. casino operators who were hoping to...
WSOP Europe Schedule to Include New High Roller Event
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) began as a sideshow to the main WSOP in Las Vegas, but has grown over the years to become a big event in its own right. Today, WSOP officials announced the latest addition of the...
You Can Always Go Downtown Las Vegas
An old Petula Clark song from the 1960s extolled the virtues of going downtown, where you could "just listen to the music of the traffic in the city/Linger on the sidewalk, where the neon signs are pretty." She probably wasn't singing about...
Judge Rules Against PokerStars in Atlantic Club Dispute
We’ve all taken bad beats at the poker table – but few will ever be nearly as big as the one suffered by PokerStars recently. PokerStars’ parent company, the Rational Group, is out $11 million after a deal gone bad with the...
Not all Granted VISA’s Green Light for Gambling Transactions
It was so simple for awhile: since April 2011 (and for many companies, even before) and the U.S. Department of Justice's clear manifesto that online gambling transactions were not to be handled by banks on pain of legal action, credit card companies...
It’s Not Just for Gambling Anymore: Atlantic City Aims for “Destination Resort” Status
Poor old Atlantic City: it lost the race to be the first U.S. gambling Mecca to offer legal online gambling; it's still recovering from the ravages of last year's Hurricane Sandy; and its revenue stream has been more of a trickle, by...
Oneida Indians and New York’s Cuomo Agree to Casino Deal
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been looking to expand casino gambling in his state. The Oneida Indian Nation has long wanted to settle land claims and build a new casino in Central New York. There couldn’t have been a more perfect...
The Rich Get Richer as George Soros Makes Bank Again (or Could Own One)
George Soros, the Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist, was reported recently to have wagered $1 billion on the foreign exchange market, with the insight that the rates would be cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Reports state that from this massive wager...
