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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...
Rumored Revel Atlantic City Owners Apply for Casino License, Pay 100K Nonrefundable Application Fee
If the alleged new owners of Revel Atlantic City are indeed simply creating news for their real estate firm and balking at buying the shuttered $2.4 billion casino resort, as current owner Glenn Straub claims, they certainly have some rather deep pockets....
Del Lago Casino Wants Credit for Local Unemployment Dip, Resort’s Hotel Receives Tax Breaks
The del Lago Resort and Casino in Upstate New York says it's to credit for the local dip in the unemployment rate. The New York Department of Labor recently revealed that the statewide unemployment rate was 4.8 percent in October, but in...
Family of Vegas Shooting Victim Seek $45 Million from Gunman’s Estate
Relatives of one of the victims of the October 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas are seeking to recover $45 million from the estate of shooter Stephen Paddock. The claim comes from the family of...
Australian Lottery Giant Tatts Gets Shareholder Approval for Tabcorp Merger
Australia’s largest gaming company, Tabcorp Holdings, is just one court appearance away from completing an $11.3 billion merger with lottery operator Tatts Group. Tatts’ shareholders overwhelmingly agreed to the takeover on Tuesday, voting 99 percent in favor of the move. Just a...
Burnett Stepping Down as Chairman of Nevada Gaming Control Board
Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett announced on Monday that he was resigning from his post to take a job in the private sector. Burnett had served on the Gaming Control Board since 2011, and been chairman since 2012. Burnett’s tenure...
Las Vegas Strip Restaurateur Mario Batali Admits to Groping Female Employees
Haute cuisine impresario Mario Batali says he's stepping aside from the day-to-day operations of his more than two dozen restaurants, which include three on the Las Vegas Strip, after admitting that sexual misconduct allegations made against the celebrity chef are true. ABC has...
More Revel Atlantic City Sale Rumors Emerge, Owner Glenn Straub Continues to Deflect
Revel Atlantic City, the $2.4 billion Boardwalk resort that's been shuttered since 2014, will reopen in May 2018 under new ownership and presumably a new identity. That's according to Moody's Investors Service, which said this week it's received financial documents from a...
Two Women Find Lottery So Nice, They Won It Twice in a Day
Two women did the statistically improbable and won significant amounts of money on not one, but two lottery scratchers in the same day. The state lottery windfalls were in different states but both in the month of November. Veronica Buchanan of Florissant,...
