13085 stories by Casino.org Staff Writer
Parisian Macau Casino Resort Opens Tonight
Sheldon Adelson’s lavish $2.7 billion casino resort on Macau’s Cotai Strip, the Parisian Macau, opens tonight, complete with 3,000 rooms, hundreds of shops, a theater, a water park and an obligatory half-sized Eiffel Tower replica. Around 500 journalists descended on the gambling...
Hell’s Angels-Operated and Mafia-Linked Online Sports Book Techie Fined $400,000
The tech guy for an online sports book operated by the Hell’s Angels and with links to the Canadian Mafia has been fined CA$400,000 by a Toronto court. Gordon Baird, 59, pled guilty to being the web administrator of Platinum Sports Book,...
RAWA Supporters Chaffetz and Adelson Find Common Ground in Politics and Internet Security
Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz (R) and Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson (also definitely a Republican) have some connective tissue when it comes to their views on who they hope becomes the next US president. Each may be focused in slightly different...
Caesars Bankruptcy Mediator Quits
Caesars’ long-suffering mediator in its chapter 11 bankruptcy case has thrown in the towel. The casino giant is currently embroiled in what one of its own lawyers described as the “largest and most complex bankruptcy in a generation” as it seeks to...
Maryland Casinos Post Ninth Straight Monthly Revenue Gain
Maryland casinos are at it again. For the ninth straight month, the state's five casinos posted a gross gaming revenue increase and topped $100 million in total income for the fourth time in the last five months. The casinos generated a combined...
Sheldon Adelson Still Targeting South Korea for Next Casino
Sheldon Adelson still has his eyes set on the untapped market of Busan, South Korea. The Las Vegas Sands Chairman remains rather bearish on the US gambling sector, but the 83-year-old billionaire is bullish on the international casino market. Outside of his...
Hillary Clinton Health Scare Causes UK Bookies to Cut Odds on Trump Victory
The odds of Hillary Clinton reaching the White House lengthened overnight, after an apparent fainting spell while watching Sept. 11 ceremonies forced her party's hand in revealing that the former secretary of state is suffering from pneumonia. Irish bookmaker Paddy Power dropped...
Social Gaming Needs Regulation, Panel at World Regulatory Briefing Says
Social gaming isn't exactly gambling, but it's also not free of similar risks, according to a recent discussion by experts on the topic. Social gaming refers to any sort of online game that incorporates social interaction such as internet multiplayer video games...
Caesars to Launch Skill-Based Gambling Next Month
Caesars Entertainment may become the first gaming company in the world to introduce new skill-based video gambling machines (VGMs) to their casino floors in California and Vegas this October. That’s if Atlantic City doesn’t get their own video gambling machines first. Last...
FOBT’s “Crack Cocaine” Label a Myth, says Conservative Think Tank
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) published a paper this week debunking what it claims are persistent myths surrounding the UK’s controversial fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). IEA is a conservative free-market think tank whose mission statement is to “improve understanding of the...
