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PokerStars Boycotted by Players in Protest at VIP Changes
PokerStars will feel the wrath of player power over the next few days, as a small but significant portion of its customers will sit out in protest at the proposed changes to its VIP program. The online poker giant says that the...
Macau Casinos: How Can They Turn the Economic Downturn Around Now?
Gambling in Macau casinos has really suffered over the past year or so. A clampdown on corruption from the mainland has led to a drastic fall in VIP traffic flowing through the Asian gambling region's casinos. That has led to junkets being...
Russian Mega Resort Tigre de Cristal Faces Backlash Over Heavily Drugged Tiger Cub
Tigre de Cristal, the first Las Vegas-style casino to open in Russia’s Primorsky Krai special economic zone, was packed to the rafters on the opening night of its soft launch last month. Dignitaries mingled with Russian celebs and journalists from Moscow, all...
American Gaming Association Study Seeks “Rational Alternative” to US Sports Betting Regulation
The American Gaming Association (AGA) has vowed to devote its resources throughout 2016 to the pursuit of “a rational alternative” to the US sports betting status quo. The trade association said it would “build a broad coalition” that would explore different approaches...
PricewaterhouseCoopers 2015 Outlook Missed Macau Meltdown and DFS Emergence
PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Global Gaming Outlook, published in 2011 forecasting the half-decade leading to the present, hit the nail on the head regarding much of the gambling industry's economics, but the firm missed the mark on two key issues. PwC got a lot...
Thanksgiving Gambling on Plymouth Rock? Who Knew the Pilgrims Got Their Game on Back in the Day
Thanksgiving is the official start to the holiday season in the United States, a time of year when families and friends come together to celebrate their American heritage, not to mention great food and football. After all, it's some low-stress merriment, free...
Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr Pushing to Legalize State Online Gambling
Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester) is campaigning to grant two forthcoming casinos in the state with the right to offer online gambling. The MGM Springfield and Wynn Everett haven't even opened their doors and won't for months, but that isn't...
Brian Sandoval Blasts Nevada AG Adam Laxalt Over Pro-RAWA Support
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has publicly reprimanded his state's attorney general, Adam Laxalt, over the baffling pro-RAWA comments he made Tuesday on the local political talk show Ralston Live. Laxalt, whose grandfather Paul Laxalt governed the state from 1967-1971, told veteran political reporter...
DDoS Online Gambling Hacker Teen Told to Get a Real Life by UK Judge, Who Gives Him a Chance to Have One
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have plagued the online gambling industry, and online retailers in general, since the dawn of e-commerce. These cyberattacks can be devastating to business, crippling a website’s operations by flooding its bandwidth with thousands of simultaneous requests,...
Massachusetts Casino Industry Becomes Local Cause for Concern
Massachusetts’ casino experiment doesn’t appear to be going to according plan. The packaging has barely been unwrapped on the state’s shiny, brand new casino industry, but it’s already causing anxiety in the regional press. For a start, Plainridge Park, the first casino...
