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Caesars Virginia Casino Resort in Danville Pushes Back Opening to 2024
Caesars Virginia officials announced this week that the scheduled opening of the Danville casino resort will be pushed back from 2023 to sometime in 2024. Danville is one of five cities in Virginia that qualified...
Everi Holdings Acquires Historical Horse Racing Manufacturer Intuicode
Everi Holdings announced today that it has acquired historical horse racing (HHR) developer and manufacturer Intuicode Gaming. The deal is for a total consideration of between $22 million to $27 million. Everi, a Las Vegas-based...
New Jersey Judge Sides With Atlantic County in Casino Tax Dispute
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Michael Blee this week upheld a lower court's ruling that found the state's new payment-in-lieu-of-tax (PILOT) arrangement with the nine casinos in Atlantic City violated a 2018 consent order. Superior...
Macau China Labor Day Holiday Subdued, Enclave Counts Only 92K Visitors
Macau welcomed around 92,400 visitors during the first three days of China's annual Labor Day holiday. The 2022 May 1 holiday celebrating the working class was lengthened from its traditional three-day period to five days...
Rivers Casino Philadelphia Maintaining Indoor Smoking Ban
Rivers Casino Philadelphia has voluntarily decided to eliminate indoor smoking from its gaming floor. The ban brings the Fishtown casino into harmony with Parx, another Philly-area casino located just north of the city proper in...
Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban Would Hurt Gaming Revenues Up To 25 Percent, Analyst Projects
An Atlantic City casino smoking ban would have a devasting consequence on gaming revenue, or so says an analyst at CBRE Equity Research. John DeCree, a senior analyst at Union Gaming, a subsidiary of CBRE...
Elaine Wynn Wall Street Journal Exposé Paints Billionaire in Positive Light
Elaine Wynn was featured in a profile published over the weekend in The Wall Street Journal. The exposé was much kinder to Wynn than the media outlet's January 2018 report on her former husband, Steve...
Adele Reportedly Moving Las Vegas Show from Caesars Palace to Planet Hollywood
It's apparently "Water Under the Bridge" for Adele and Caesars Entertainment. Celebrity gossip site TMZ recently broke the news that Adele's relationship with Caesars Entertainment is apparently not strained beyond repair. Caesars Entertainment and Adele...
Macau Casino Revenue Posts Worst Month Since September 2020
Macau casino revenue totaled just MOP2.68 billion (US$331.2 million) in April of 2022. It was the worst monthly outcome for the six casinos operating in the Chinese gambling enclave since September of 2020. With incoming...
Atlantic City Casino Unions Split on Indoor Smoking, as Dealers Call on Tobacco Ban
The Atlantic City casino unions that represent the roughly 22,000 workers employed by the nine resorts have differing opinions when it comes to indoor smoking. The United Auto Workers (UAW) first ventured into the Atlantic...
