4008 stories by Philip Conneller
Twin River to Acquire Two Eldorado Casinos in Mississippi and Missouri for $230 Million
Twin River Worldwide Holdings has announced Thursday that it will acquire two Eldorado Resorts casinos, the Isle of Capri Casino Kansas City, Mo., and the Lady Luck Vicksburg, Miss., for an all-cash transaction of $230 million. The Rhode Island-based company has been...
Las Vegas Police Had No Specific Mass-Casualty Response Policy at Time of Mandalay Bay Shooting, Internal Report Shows
Las Vegas Metro Police (LVMPD) did not have a specific policy in place for responding to a mass-casualty incident at the time of the Oct. 1, 2017 Mandalay Bay shooting. That’s the conclusion of an internal police “after-action review,” which lists 93...
Support Grows in East Texas for Federal Bill to Save Embattled Alabama-Coushatta Gaming Hall
Counties in East Texas are increasingly expressing their support for the Alabama-Coushatta tribe, which has been engaged in a pitched legal battle with Texas state officials since it opened a bingo hall three years ago. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wants to...
Pennsylvania Skill Games Supplier Sues Rival, Alleges ‘Illegal Gambling’ Devices Offered to Players
Pace-O-Matic, the maker of the “Pennsylvania Skill” brand of skill-games machines, is suing a rival in the lucrative but controversial Pennsylvania skill games market for allegedly offering illegal gambling. Pace-O-Matic alleges that the games on offer at 3C Amusements, made by a...
GVC Responds to Controversy Over Former Turkish Ops as Shares Nosedive
GVC has hit back at reports questioning the 2017 divestiture of its Turkish arm following the revelation that the controversial operation was offloaded to a long-time associate and current business partner of Kenny Alexander, GVC's CEO. It was known at the time that...
US Tourists Return to DR and Its Casinos After Fears Over ‘Mysterious’ Deaths Abate
US flight bookings to the Dominican Republic have rallied after a sharp plunge last month as prospective visitors were rattled by a spate of allegedly mysterious American deaths in the Caribbean country in May and June. The dramatic fall in visitation was...
WSOP Main Event Officially Biggest Since 2006 at Height of Poker Boom
The numbers are in for the World Series of Poker Main Event at the Rio in Las Vegas -- and reports of the game's demise have been wildly exaggerated. In fact, with the WSOP celebrating its half-century, this is the second biggest...
Montana Casino Customer Who Beheaded Fellow Patron Was Alleged Zombie Fantasist Who ‘Wanted to Eat Brains’
A man accused of decapitating a winning customer at Montana Lil’s Casino in Billings, Mont., was allegedly “obsessed with zombies” and discussed eating the victim’s brain, according to new charges filed in the case. Donald Ray Cherry, 32, and associate Jeffrey Glen...
GVC Boss Offloaded Controversial Turkish Ops to Friend and Business Partner for Free to Keep Regulators Sweet
GVC CEO Kenny Alexander offloaded his company’s black-market Turkish operations to a long-time friend, Ron Watts, with whom he jointly runs a stud farm in Scotland, according to the UK’s Sunday Times. It was widely reported at the time that the Turkish...
African Cup of Nations Match-Fixing Allegations Against Zimbabwe Could Be Dirty Tricks Campaign
Scandal abounds at soccer’s African Cup of Nations, where the Zimbabwean national team – or at least its goalkeeper -- has been accused by media of throwing its final group match against the Democratic Republic of Congo last Sunday. But could the...
