5349 stories by Casino.org Staff Writer
Suicide on Hoover Dam Bridge Shines Light on Las Vegas’ Dirty Secret
Beyond the endless glare of the bright neon lights and the sounds of slot machines, cocktail glasses and sexy encounters, lies a much, much darker and grimmer reality in Sin City: a seldom-reported fact - and one that many hotels go out...
UK Man Charged with Courtsiding at Australian Open
For tennis fans, there’s nothing they’d rather be doing right now than sitting courtside watching Rafael Nadal or Serena Williams at the Australian Open. But one young man from the UK was arrested this week for “courtsiding” of a different nature, becoming...
Possible Mob Ties to Chinese Illegal Gambling Den Explosion
At least 15 were killed in a major explosion in the Guizhou Province in southern China - and many more pretty shaken up - following a blast that occurred late afternoon earlier this week at a hillside illegal gambling den, tucked away on...
Penn National Partners with Jamul Indian Village for California Casino
Penn National Gaming is moving into the California market with a new casino project in partnership with Jamul Indian Village, about 20 miles east of San Diego. The $360 million development still needs the blessing of the National Indian Gaming Commission for...
Poker Site 888 Wants Hakeem Nicks to Add an 8 to His Jersey
In the overcrowded arena of ways to get your name out there, sometimes you just have to think outside the box. That's the thinking, apparently, of the marketing geniuses at 888.com, an online poker site now licensed in the newly launched New...
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...
