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Wynn Resorts to Pay Dealers $5.6M, Resolving 15-Year Feud Over Tips
Wynn Resorts has agreed to pay $5.6 million to around 1,000 current and former dealers at its Las Vegas properties, ending a dispute about tips that has bounced from courtroom to courtroom for the past 15 years. The settlement was reached with...
DraftKings Teams Up with WWE Ahead of Wrestlemania 37 Despite Betting Restrictions
DraftKings and World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (WWE) have inked a deal that will see the Boston-based sports betting and DFS company become the sports entertainment brand’s “official gaming partner.” DraftKings chief business officer Ezra Kucharz said Monday that the partnership will help...
Grand Casino Tycoon: New Strategy Sim Let’s You Design, Operate Casino
A new video game from deep-simulation specialist Aerosoft and developer stillalive studios offers players the chance to own and manage a virtual casino. Grand Casino Tycoon will be available from May 20 on the Steam platform. It’s not the first time gamers...
Global Gaming Sues Philippine Billionaire Enrique Razon in New York for US$296.6M
Las Vegas-based Global Gaming Asset Management (GGAM) is suing the Philippines’ second-richest man in a federal court in New York in a claim for hundreds of millions of dollars The casino development and gaming management company has Bloomberry Resorts chairman Enrique Razon...
Brit Who Wrote Book on Defrauding Bookmakers Jailed for Defrauding Bookmakers
A grifter who wrote a book titled How and Why I Conned the Bookies has been jailed for 21 weeks for defrauding bookmakers in Wales. Jason Haddigan was described by prosecutors as a “notorious conman” who has been banned from every retail...
Reporter Who Exposed Crown Resorts Wins ‘Journalist of the Year’ At Crown Melbourne
A reporter who exposed Crown Resorts’ ties with triad junket operators has been named Journalist of the Year at the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Awards. The venue? The Crown Melbourne Palladium event space. Nick McKenzie’s reportage has heaped nothing but misery on...
Japanese Lawmaker Pleads Not Guilty in Casino Kickback Scandal Despite Fingerprints on Cash
A Japanese lawmaker who was a key figure in shaping policy for the country’s recently legalized casino market has pleaded not guilty to accepting bribes from a prospective operator. This is the preliminary hearing in the trial of Tsukasa Akimoto, 49, in...
Footstock Goes Belly-Up as Football Index Domino Effect Rips Soccer Trading
Soccer trading platform Footstock announced Friday it had entered insolvency proceedings. The move comes just four weeks after the demise of Football Index, a site whose business model it emulated. In an announcement to players, the Germany-based platform said on its website...
Steve Wynn’s New Line: Flipping Mansions in Palm Beach
The Palm Beach property market has been skyrocketing, and inspired at least one disgraced billionaire casino mogul to cash in. According to the Palm Beach Daily News, Steve Wynn just made $5.2 million selling a mansion just three months after he bought...
Connecticut Sports Betting, Online Gaming in Race to Launch for 2021-22 NFL Season
Connecticut’s legislature and its two tribal operators are targeting this fall and the NFL season for the launch of sports betting and online gaming in the state. Last week, the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes reached a deal with Democratic Gov. Ned...
