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Mohegan Sun Pocono Dealt Record Fine Over Casino Slots Fraud Debacle
The Mohegan Sun Pocono was slapped with a $1 million fine this week, the largest penalty ever doled out by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) since the regulator’s 2004 inception. A $550,000 penalty was imposed for the casino’s “failure to follow...
Florida’s Seminole Tribe Sues to Shut Down 11 Jacksonville Electronic Gambling Parlors
The Florida Seminole Tribe has waited long enough for the state to act and decided to pursue legal action against 11 Jacksonville Internet cafes that they say offer illegal electronic gambling machines. The antitrust lawsuit, which was filed a week ago in...
Atlantic City Casino Revenue Climbs Almost Five Percent in November
The seven remaining Atlantic City casinos collectively won $206.4 million in November, which is a 4.6 percent gain on the same month in 2016 when the then-eight gaming floors took in $197.2 million. A strong performance at the tables helped fuel land-based...
Georgia Loses Third Player to Criminal Act Since Making College Football Playoffs
Latavious Brini, a member of the Georgia football team, was arrested Tuesday on felony forgery charges. It was the third member of the program that has been arrested since the Bulldogs qualified for the College Football Playoffs after winning the SEC Championship...
Labor Party Wants to Remove Slots from Tasmanian Clubs and Pubs by 2023
The Labor Party in Tasmania has said that they want to remove all slot machines (known in Australia as poker machines or pokies) from the Australian state by 2023. While the Labor party is currently in the minority in the state, they...
Las Vegas Shooting Victims GoFundMe Campaign Tops $11.7 Million, Site to Take $585K, Victims Still Empty-Handed
The GoFundMe account collecting money for victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting on October 1 in front of Mandalay Bay has received more than $11.7 million in donations, a new record for the fundraising platform, but more than two months after...
China Travel Ban Costs South Korea $4.6 Billion in Tourism Revenues, Impacting New Casinos
China's travel ban that prohibited its citizens from leisurely visiting South Korea for much of 2017 cost the country $4.56 billion in unrealized tourism revenues. That's according to a report from the Bank of Korea, which estimates the sharp decline in tourism...
Deal for Sinatra’s Cal Neva Resort Back On, Oracle Founder Larry Ellison to Pay $35.8 Million
The famed Cal Neva Resort and Casino, which straddles the California and Nevada border on Lake Tahoe's north shore, is about to get another owner who needs little introduction. Oracle founder Larry Ellison, whose fortune is estimated to be worth more than...
UKGC Report: Young Children Gambling on ‘Skin Betting’
While the video game community is caught up in fierce debate over whether or not loot boxes constitute gambling, the UK Gambling Commission has released a report that suggests many children are being introduced to a less ambiguous form of betting through...
Suspicious Transaction Reports Up at Macau Casinos
Reports of suspicious transactions at Macau casinos were up more than 37 percent year-over-year for the first half of 2017, a rise that mirrors the increase in revenues coming into the territory’s gaming industry. In total, more than 1,000 cases of suspicious...
