Our math man, Kevin is the number guru. He calculates odds in his head the same way the rest of us make a cup of coffee. He gets involved in all the news stories involving numbers, and we often turn to him for help on financial news stories as he used to be in banking. However, he says that being a gambler is a far more respectable occupation these days.
Giacobbe “Jake” LaMotta’s battles outside the boxing ring were almost as vicious as his fights that raged in it. The subject of the movie “Raging Bull,” LaMotta died Tuesday at age 95, of complications from pneumonia, at a nursing home near Miami, Florida. The famed middleweight fought from 1941-1954 and compiled a record of 83-19-4…Read More
Las Vegas-based Scientific Games (SG) announced on Wednesday that it was acquiring competitor NYX Gaming in a deal valued at $632 million. The purchase further extends Scientific’s dominating presence in the slots market. Scientific Games will buy all outstanding ordinary shares of NYX, a company based in Las Vegas that trades on Toronto’s Venture Stock…Read More
Legendary Las Vegas figures can be found winning big all over the city, but legendary sports betting icon Billy Walters would like to forget his recent history, now that he has been ordered by a federal judge to pay a $25.4 million penalty for insider trading. Walters was convicted in April of profiting from illegal trades…Read More
Macau casino agreements with licensed VIP junket operators should be revealed upon qualified legal inquiry, an appeals court in China’s special gambling enclave has ruled. The decision comes as a result of an unnamed attorney who sued the city’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) after it refused to make public a list showing which…Read More
Billionaire Carl Icahn sold the Fontainebleau Las Vegas in late August to a real estate investment firm that is reportedly going to waste little time in completing construction on the 3,815-room casino resort that for seven years has done little more than serve as an unfinished place mark on the Las Vegas Strip. The towering…Read More
A Philippines casino shut down by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) in February will be ready to reopen soon, according to the Australian investment group that bought the property a year earlier for $26 million. The Casablanca Casino in Angeles City, Philippines, was forced to close when its parent company, Frontier Capital Group,…Read More
Melco’s Lawrence Ho has slashed his stake in Summit Ascent Holdings, developer of the new Tigre de Cristal casino resort in Russia’s eastern Primorsky gambling zone. The Macau-based casino mogul sold $21.3 million-worth of shares last week, according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, reducing his stake in the company from 27.06…Read More
The Casino Du Liban, Lebanon’s only casino, has downplayed a terrorism alert issued by the US Embassy in Beirut and moved to reassure its visitors of their safety. The casino, built in 1959 when Lebanon was far more Westernized, is just under 14 miles north of Beirut. In a message sent out to its employees…Read More
New York counties have more tax money in their coffers than in years past thanks to the liberalization of gambling in the northern part of the state. As local governments begin planning their 2018 fiscal budgets, they’re pleasantly afforded new income to fund everything from education to senior citizen programs. In Tompkins County, for example,…Read More
An Oklahoma gambling expansion plan that could cover a substantial budget shortfall isn’t gaining much traction in the Oklahoma City capital. The state legislature is scheduled to return for a special session on September 25, and when it does, lawmakers will be faced with deciding the best method to fix a deficit that came as…Read More
At the Hoover Dam, which traverses Clark County, Nevada and Mohave County, Arizona, well over 100 workers gave their lives to see it come to completion. And unofficial estimates have suggested that hundreds more may have jumped to their deaths there since. But for one Welshman, who jumped into the dam not on a suicide…Read More
The fate of Choctaw Nation’s fourth casino in Mississippi will be decided by its more than 10,000 members and not tribal leadership. After a brief legal battle those opposed to the project were able to get a referendum for November 17. Chief Phyliss Anderson decided not to appeal a decision made last month by a…Read More
In a shuffling of assets to prepare for his next phase of domestic development, Philippine billionaire Enrique Razon, Jr., has sold 3.18 percent of his stake in casino operator Bloomberry Resorts for PHP3.8 billion ($74.7 million). The Bloomberry chairman’s holding company Prime Metroline Holdings, Inc., announced the sale in a filing to the Philippine Stock…Read More
The NFL moved as quick off the field as the tailback they are trying to suspend runs on it, asking the judge who granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction for the NFL’s six-game suspension of Cowboy’s Ezekiel Elliott on Monday to reverse his ruling. They also petitioned the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals…Read More
Florida horse racetracks are reporting minimal damages in the wake of Hurricane Irma, once a powerful and violent Category 5 tropical cyclone that stormed up the west coast of the Sunshine State. Gulfstream Park, Hialeah Park Race Track, and Tampa Bay Downs, Florida’s three main tracks, all say they managed to avoid any substantial damage. More…Read More
Slots Pop-Culture Pioneer, Vegas Visionary and ‘Shuffle Master’ Inducted into Gaming Hall of Fame
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Paddy Power’s Trump-Designated Oddsmaker Covers Contingencies You Never Imagined
Atlantic City Strip Club Stakes Its Pole in Former Trump Taj Mahal, New Owner Hard Rock Files Suit
Suicide on Hoover Dam Bridge Shines Light on Las Vegas' Dirty Secret 
Tiger Woods Practicing Again, But No Timetable for Betting on His Return 
Kelly Cheung Yin Sun Targeted Borgata for Revenge 
Mayweather vs. McGregor Fight Set for Aug. 26 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas 
MGM National Harbor in Maryland Is Dominating DC Area Casino Landscape 
