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Nova Scotia to End My-Play Monitoring System
Nova Scotia's My-Play System has been helping players track and control their spending on video lottery terminals (VLTs) since 2010, and have been mandatory since April 2012. The idea was to give players a simple way to track their play habits and...
MGM Tokyo On A Fish Market Site?
MGM Resorts International, like most of their competitors, would love to build a casino in Japan. And if you're going to build there, then the most lucrative city for a casino would have to be Tokyo. The only disadvantage to placing a...
Revel Casino Losing $1 Million a Week While Closing
The Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City is still up for sale in bankruptcy court, and the owners would love to find a buyer. But in the meantime, they're losing more money each week than many people will make from decades of...
Gibraltar Challenges New UK Gambling Tax
Gibraltar is one of the most popular homes for online gambling companies, particularly for those who service the UK market. With a very low tax rate, it was the perfect place for operators to headquarter themselves while still being in a jurisdiction...
Massachusetts Casino Repeal Campaigns Begin
The Massachusetts casino repeal vote promises to be one of the biggest political gaming battles of 2014. It pits major casino developers and their supporters against anti-casino advocates who are hoping to roll back the law that allowed for three casinos and...
Whitey Bulger Appeals 2013 Conviction
James "Whitey" Bulger was convicted on 31 counts last year, including charges related to his involvement in 11 murders. That was enough to earn the former criminal mastermind and FBI informant two consecutive life terms in prison and a cell at the...
Ladbrokes Profits Drop But Remain Optimistic
UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has sought to reassure its shareholders this week that all is going according to plan despite a sharp fall in profits that could not be salvaged by a "good" World Cup. While pre-tax profit plunged 49.7% in the first...
New Poker Movie Gutshot Straight Released September 1st
Could Gutshot Straight, the latest poker movie due to hit our screens, buck the trend by not being unutterably awful? It may have a hard time convincing us cynics at Casino.org who have pretty much given up on the genre due to...
Nevada Gaming Control Board Still Hunting for Six Most Wanted
The capture of Jubreal Chahine was a major coup for the Nevada Gaming Control Board. He was one of the seven most-wanted casino cheats for officials in the state, as there were seven warrants out against him at the time of his...
Blackjack Payouts Falling at Some Las Vegas Casinos
In a casino, you can feel confident that if the house is offering you a game to play, they have some sort of edge. But that advantage isn't the same in every game: blackjack, for instance, is well-known to have a very...
