3799 stories by Philip Conneller
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...
Chinese State Media Attacks Macau Super-Junket Suncity for Alleged Multibillion Dollar Online Gambling Ops Focused on Mainland Citizens
China state media has accused Macau’s biggest junket operator, Suncity, of targeting mainland citizens with online gaming and proxy-betting operations based out of the Philippines and Cambodia, which it claims are worth billions of dollars a year. The Chinese financial paper Economic...
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...
DC Council to Vote on Intralot Sports Betting Contract Tuesday Amid Fresh Conflict of Interest Allegations
The Council of the District of Columbia will vote Tuesday on whether to award a controversial $215 million sports betting contract to Greek gaming operator Intralot, or whether to start over, this time with a competitive bidding process. In the meantime, more...
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...
Vancouver Man Found Dead in South America Linked to Money Laundering of Drug Proceeds Via BC Casinos
A Chinese-Canadian man from Vancouver who was under surveillance by Canadian Police (RCMP) for his alleged links to a criminal syndicate that laundered hundreds of millions of dollars through British Columbia’s casinos was found dead in Colombia, South America last month. Colombian...
