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Pennsylvania Casino Revenue Drops During Last Fiscal Year, Poll Claims Residents Want Smoke-Free Gaming
Pennsylvania casino win was down during the 2016/2017 fiscal year, albeit marginally at just 0.8 percent. The 12 brick-and-mortar casinos collected $3.203 billion from slot machines and table games between July 1, 2016, and June...
Sheldon Adelson Loses Prostitution-Related Defamation Appeal, Nevada Supreme Court Sides With Jewish Democratic Group
Las Vegas Sands founder Sheldon Adelson has lost his legal challenge against the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC), after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled this week that the political organization is immune from civil liability...
Paddy Power Betfair Accused of Backstabbing Betting Industry Over FOBTs
PaddyPower Betfair has broken ranks with the UK betting industry and the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB), of which it is member, by declaring its support of the slashing the stakes of fixed-odds betting terminals....
Colleges Dealing with Federal Bribery Investigation; Louisville’s Rick Pitino Removed
The other shoes are dropping all over the country as college basketball programs are dealing with the fallout over the FBI investigation into alleged illegal relationships with Adidas representatives and sports agents. On Wednesday legendary...
Gambling Ship in Hot Water for Refusing to ‘Outrun’ Hurricane Irma
US Coast Guard authorities are investigating why a casino cruise ship remained docked at Port Canaveral during Hurricane Irma, despite having been ordered to leave well before the storm hit the Florida coast. Port Canaveral...
Caesars Clears Final Regulatory Hurdles to Emerge from Bankruptcy in October
Louisiana and Missouri gaming regulators have given regulatory approval to Caesars Entertainment and its related companies’ restructuring plans, finally putting to bed one of the messiest corporate bankruptcies in recent memory. These two states that...
Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner, Frequent Las Vegas Visitor and Former Casino Owner, Dead at 91
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has gone to that great lingerie party in the sky. The multimillionaire who brought to life the soft-core, meticulously photoshopped genre of impossibly beautiful women died Wednesday at his Playboy Mansion...
Poll: Americans Want to Legalize Sports Betting, as Gaming Industry Calls for PASPA Repeal
Sports betting has been banned in America in all but four states since 1992, but a new poll shows that the majority of US adults support amending that prohibition. A study conducted by the University...
Iowa Gaming Operators Warn of Cedar Rapids Casino Impact
Iowa's existing casino operators urged the state’s Racing and Gaming Commission not to award a license to any of three proposals for a casino in Cedar Rapids, Iowa’s second biggest city, at a hearing on...
MGM National Harbor Corrects Grave Error, Digs Up and Moves 400-Year-Old Colonists
Maryland's $1.4 billion MGM National Harbor is gently kicking out some unwanted stiffs, but not the kind who haven't paid their casino credit line. Nope, these deadbeats are actually, well, dead. Just steps from the...
