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MGM Resorts Frontrunner for Western Massachusetts Casino Project
It's a kind of Miss America pageant for Massachusetts casinos, and it's now down to the finalist round; MGM Resorts International is waiting tearfully with its Springfield, Massachusetts sash on, hoping her name will be called to represent the western part of...
Think Your Job’s Tough? Try Being Nevada’s New Online Gaming Commissioner
As Day One of UltiimatePoker.com's legal online poker wraps up in Nevada - the first of the racing U.S. states to get 'er done (with New Jersey panting and out of breath now, we're sure) - you can bet that Las Vegas...
UltimatePoker.com Goes Live Online for Nevada Players
It's a new day; online legal poker is kicking off today for Nevada players. After almost two years of trying to turn Internet poker into a legitimate entity, looks like Stations Casinos-owned UltimatePoker gets to go down in the history books as...
Scratching the Surface of $5 Million Alleged Lottery Scam
Online publication Syracuse.com has reported an alleged lottery ticket fraud in New York's Syracuse area dating back to 2006, that involves two brothers from central New York who claimed a $5 million lottery ticket sold at their family's convenience store. Subsequently, they...
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...
