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Sports Betting Coates Family Makes the British Rich List
As the family behind one of the world's largest online sports betting sites, bet365, the Coates family are reportedly set to become Britain's first gambling billionaires after amassing a fortune of £925 million (that's something like a billion and 4 million more...
Japanese Casinos Could Be Next Big Asian Moneymaker
It's a pretty well-known fact that Asians, as a group, love to gamble, and even stuffy mainland China is starting to open land-based casinos, (albeit in baby steps), so it seems like it's about time that Japan jumped on board the money...
Bingo Addiction Leads to Jail Time for British Manager
Elizabeth Sutton, a British administration manager, recently pled guilty to stealing £73,566 ($112,556) in order to fund her online gambling habit, and was sentenced by the courts to more than a year and a half behind bars. Sutton stole the money from...
Macau Baccarat Revenues Pulling Their Weight
What's a little H7N9 virus, or a loss of mainland China gambling junkets, when you're Macau, the most lucrative gambling region in the world? Even dings like that, which might affect less stellar revenue-creators than the Special Administrative District that draws some...
Replica New York City Park Coming to MGM Resorts Las Vegas
Las Vegas is the epicenter of all things replicated: the Statue of Liberty..the Eiffel Tower...pyramids and palaces...so why not add a replica New York City park to the mix? We know you're laughing right now, thinking, a park? In Las Vegas? In...
Health Bureau Smoking Mad Over Noncompliance with Macau Smoking Ban
Macau's revenue numbers for 2013 have lit up, but now the Special Administrative District's Health Bureau has smoke coming out of their ears: it turns out that 64% of the area's casinos may not be in compliance with a no smoking edict...
Alleged Russian Mafia Kingpin Indicted by DoJ for New York Illegal Gambling Op
What do you do for an encore after you've been indicted for bribing Olympic figure skating judges? Naturally, you get indicted for running illegal poker and sports betting operations. Think of it as a kind of Russian Mafia entrepreneurial spirit, always looking...
SPIELO G2 Chosen for Ontario Real-Money Site
SPIELO G2's Boss Media AB has been chosen by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to power its PlayOLG.ca site as it makes the move from an information-only site to a real money online gambling site this year. The Ontario Lottery and...
Casino Dealer Fined $75K for Stealing from Customers
A casino dealer who needed a little extra cash for some urgent expenses thought skimming a couple hundred bucks from customers wouldn’t be such a bad idea to help make ends meet. He now knows otherwise, and has gone from needing a...
Revel Casino’s Titanic Debt Trying to Avoid an Iceberg
Apparently, the common truism that even a poorly run casino will be profitable isn't true, at least not from looking at the money outlook of Atlantic City-based casino resort Revel's financial denouement of late. The property's overseer, Revel Entertainment Group LLC, recently...
