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Smile, You’re on Candid Surveillance Cameras on the Las Vegas Strip
Looking forward to your next visit to Sin City? The bright neon lights, the exciting casinos, the crazy parties? Oh, and don't forget the 37 surveillance cameras that will be watching you through it all, up and down a four-mile stretch of...
Foxwoods Submits $1 Billion Massachusetts Casino Plan
The Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut is one of the largest casinos in the United States and one of the most successful Native American casinos in the country. Still, after recent failures in Pennsylvania and the struggles of their new MGM Grand...
Legislators Vote to Ban Kiosk Wagering in Nevada Bars and Taverns
The Nevada Assembly has voted unanimously to ban wagering kiosks in the state's bars and taverns, as well as any other properties that hold restricted gaming licenses. The 41-0 vote was a show of support for the casino industry, who obviously would...
Colleges, Private Businesses Offer Training for Massachusetts Casino Jobs
It’s not news that Massachusetts is planning for a major casino expansion. In the years to come, there will be three new resort-style casinos and a slots parlor added to the Bay State, all of which should attract plenty of steady revenue...
Online Poker Rivalry Between Stations Casinos and Caesars Interactive Like a Boxing Match
It's sort of a Celebrity Death Match: the new wam-bam verbal spat between Stations Casinos and Caesars Interactive in Nevada. Not long ago, World Series of Poker executive director Ty Stewart gleefully noted, "I think the market is ready for a first-class...
Internet Users Increasingly Leaning on Mobile Devices for Gambling (and Everything Else)
A new study by Pew Internet, which has analyzed all its 2012 data, points clearly to mobile technology as the usage platform for the future, including for gambling site operators. According to the study, 31 percent of all adult mobile Internet users...
Two Out of Four Canadian Winning Lottery Tickets Claimed by One Man
We all know life isn't fair, and now we just have more proof of that: a Canadian man has produced two of the four winning tickets in a recent record-setting Canadian lottery jackpot. Harry Black, from Surrey, British Columbia, decided if one...
Pair Found Guilty in New Zealand Roulette Scam
Two gamblers were found guilty of participating in a scam that earned them $7,000 in winnings at the SkyCity Casino in Hamilton, New Zealand. The two players colluded with a dealer using a twist on a classic scheme that allowed them to...
UK Pubs May Double as Bookies with Controversial New Law
There is certainly no shortage of critics to new planning laws which allow bookies to set up shop within Britain's pubs, in what has been dubbed a "free for all" on the high streets around the UK. Pubs as Bookies The new...
British Illusionist Banned from Betting at UK Casinos
British illusionist and mentalist Derren Brown was banned from a Birmingham casino recently, amid fears that he would use his powers for ill gain, and take the casino operators for all they’re worth. Persona Non Grata Brown and friends decided to roll...