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Macau Casino Licenses To Be Issued Before June 2022 Expiry, Top Official Asserts
The six Macau casino operators in the Chinese Special Administrative Region (SAR) are scheduled to see their coveted gaming privileges expire on June 26, 2022. Macau's local government has been conducting an in-depth review of its gaming industry for several years, ahead...
Adele Las Vegas Tickets Relisted as High as $35K, Superstar Demands Caesars Action
Superstar Adele announced her first Las Vegas residency late last month. Tickets went on sale soon after, but scalpers have since caused much frustration among the British singer-songwriter's fans. Caesars Entertainment revealed in November that it was the winner of the Adele...
Atlantic City Casino Property Relief Opponents Frustrated With PILOT Effort
The odds of Atlantic City casinos saving around $55 million in 2022 property tax payments continue to shorten. That's as legislation that seeks to provide the gaming resorts with financial savings makes progress in the New Jersey capital. Backed by lame-duck state...
Station Casinos in Development Mode, Pitches Downtown Las Vegas Wildfire Gaming Venue
Station Casinos has unveiled a small tavern casino development near downtown Las Vegas on Fremont Street. just south of Charleston Avenue. The City of Las Vegas Planning Commission will hold a public hearing later today during its meeting on the Station Casinos...
DiamondJacks Casino Could Reopen After Failed St. Tammany Parish Election
DiamondJacks Casino in Bossier City, La., might be making a comeback. The casino's owner, Peninsula Pacific Entertainment (P2E), was forced to temporarily shutter its Louisiana casino in March 2020 on state orders to combat the escalating COVID-19 pandemic. Just two months later,...
Richmond Councilmember Not Ready to Fold on City Casino, Seeks 2022 Referendum
Richmond voters made their voices heard in November when they rejected a proposed commercial casino development in the Virginia capital. But a city official believes residents should nonetheless be asked again about the issue. Urban One and Peninsula Pacific Entertainment (P2E)'s proposed...
South Dakota’s Deadwood Sportsbooks Issued Many Fines Months After Launch
Deadwood sportsbooks began taking bets in mid-September. Less than three months later, oddsmakers are facing an array of fines for violating state regulations. Sports betting is presently operating on the premises of five Deadwood casinos -- Cadillac Jack's Gaming Resort, Tin Lizzie...
Crown Sydney Casino Plans Early 2022 Opening, Works on Government Grievances
Crown Sydney hopes to open its stalled casino spaces sometime in early 2022. In an investors' update today on the resort's operations, Crown brass said its Sydney casino is expected to be up and running as early as January. The $1.6 billion...
Louisiana Casino Rejected, as St. Tammany Voters Say ‘No’ to Slidell Resort
A Louisiana casino project called Camellia Bay Resort on the Lakeshore Marina in Slidell met its fate yesterday. And it wasn't one developers of the proposed $325 million mission had hoped for. Voters in St. Tammany Parish faced only a single question...
Blackstone Eyeing Another IPO Try of Spanish Gaming Operator Cirsa
Private equity behemoth Blackstone Group is considering another initial public offering (IPO) of its fully owned Cirsa Gaming Corporation. Blackstone acquired the Spanish casino and gaming operator in 2018 for an undisclosed sum. But the company prior to the acquisition said it...