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MGM Cotai Opens for Business

MGM Cotai Opens at Last with 500 Hotel Rooms for Chinese New Year

Finally, MGM Cotai opened its doors on Tuesday – and the brand new $3.4 billion property is already fully booked for Chinese New Year, according to MGM China. Or at least, the 500 hotel rooms that are currently operational will be filled...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 13, 2018
Connecticut casino East Windsor DOI

Connecticut Congressional Delegation Seeks Federal Probe of DOI Over Tribal Casino

Four members of the Connecticut congressional delegation have asked the US Inspector General to investigate the Department of the Interior (DOI) on the agency's inaction in regards to the state's proposed gaming compact amendments with its two Native American tribes. The request...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 13, 2018
enedetto Bacchi arrest prompts Malta Gaming Authority Action

Malta Gaming Authority Launches Mafia Crackdown

The Malta Gaming Authority is launching a wide-scale investigation into its Italian licensees for links to organized crime. According to “high-ranking Maltese sources” who spoke to Gambling Compliance this week, this is the first phase of a larger probe into all Italian...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 12, 2018
Virginia gambling bill historical racing

Virginia Gambling Bill Passes Assembly Committee, Legislation Would Legalize Historical Racing Terminals

The Virginia House of Delegates Appropriations Committee has passed House Bill 1609, a gambling measure that would allow the currently shuttered Colonial Downs horse racetrack in New Kent County to incorporate historical wagering machines at the facility. Located about 30 miles east...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 12, 2018
Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino, Northern Mariana Islands, money-laundering

Tinian Dynasty Operator Broke, Can’t Afford Lawyer

Hong Kong Entertainment, owner of the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino, told a federal judge this week that its financial situation was so bleak that it could no longer afford a lawyer to represent it in ongoing legal claims filed by creditors....

Casino.org Staff Writer February 12, 2018
New Jersey voters casino referendum

New Jersey Voters Favor Atlantic City Retaining Casino Monopoly, New Poll Finds

New Jersey voters do not want to end Atlantic City's monopoly on casinos and allow gambling resorts to come to northern parts of the state. That's according to a new poll paid for by Trenton's Bad Bet, an anti-gambling group. Likely voters...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 12, 2018
Fontainebleau to become Drew Las Vegas

Fontainebleau to Morph Into The Drew Las Vegas By 2020

The Drew Las Vegas could be the first new casino resort to rise on the Las Vegas Strip since the Cosmopolitan in 2010, if it beats Resorts World to the punch. Remodeled from the shiny blue wreck of the doomed Fontainebleau, The...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 12, 2018
gross gaming revenue US casinos

US Gross Gaming Revenue Nearly $41.2 Billion in 2017, as Casino Expansion Continues

Gross gaming revenue at US commercial casinos totaled roughly $41.2 billion last year, according to Reno-based market analyst Ken Adams. In his 2017 Adams Revenue Report, prepared for online gaming media outlet CDC Gaming Reports, the financial analyst says continued casino expansion...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 12, 2018
Steve and Elaine Wynn

Elaine Wynn Regains Control of Wynn Resort Shares in Aftermath of Ex-Husband’s Resignation

Elaine Wynn -- ex-wife of now-disgraced gaming tycoon Steve Wynn -- is getting the last laugh in one of the most antagonistic post-divorce court fights in gaming history. The former couple, who founded Wynn Resorts in 2002 with Japanese pachinko billionaire Kazuo...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 12, 2018
WeChat Macau gambling casino

WeChat Warns Users Not to Gamble Through Messaging App

WeChat, the most popular social media application in China, is warning users amid the current Lunar New Year holiday week to avoid gambling through the mobile network. Tencent Holdings, the developer of the app that has nearly one billion active users, says...

Casino.org Staff Writer February 11, 2018