3799 stories by Philip Conneller
Potawatomi Tribe Will Withhold $250 Million in Payments to Wisconsin if Competing Tribe’s Plan Comes to Fruition
The Potawatomi tribe has agreed an amended compact with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, putting to bed a 15-year dispute over gambling expansion and revenue-share payments. Under the terms of the new agreement, the tribe will withhold $250 million in payments to the state...
Eighty Percent of UK Gambling Marketing Spend Now Goes Online
Online advertising now accounts for 80 percent the UK gambling industry’s marketing spend, according to new research for GambleAware, the country’s leading independent gambling charity. The study, by Regulus Partners, found that British betting companies have ramped up their marketing expenditure by...
Russia Sues Google For Ignoring Web Censorship Demands
Russia’s media watchdog is suing Google for failing to comply with government censorship rules. Telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor accuses the search giant of refusing to remove banned websites from search results, after new laws came into effect requiring it to do so earlier...
MLB Signs Historic Sports Betting Deal with MGM Resorts
Major League Baseball has inked its first ever bona fide sports betting deal, with MGM Resorts International. The league -- once so resistant to the idea of regulated betting on its games -- joins the NBA and the NHL in calling MGM...
Nebraska Lottery Won’t Pay Out on 405 Misprinted Scratch-Off Tickets
The dreams of scores of Nebraskans were crushed this week when they were told they had not won the lottery and would not be paid on their “winning” tickets because of a printing snafu. In September, players believed they had won prizes...
Rhode Island Launches First Legal Sports Book, at Twin River Lincoln
Rhode Island on Monday became the seventh US state to offer full-scale, regulated sports betting and the sixth since the striking down of the federal prohibition by the US Supreme Court. But it’s the first in New England, and its two casinos...
Brutal Irish Betting Tax Hike Will Go Ahead Jan 1 But Could Be Repealed in 2020
Ireland’s betting tax hike will not be postponed, as reported by some news outlets last week, although Irish finance minister Paschal Donohoe has offered faint hope to the nation’s independent bookmakers who say their businesses will be devastated by the move. Tax...
Mysteriously Missing Landing International Chairman Resurfaces After Three Months Incommunicado
Landing International’s misplaced chairman, Dr Yang Zhihui, is back, the company announced Monday. Yang was reported missing in August, shortly after attending a groundbreaking ceremony for Landing’s proposed $1.5 billion integrated resort in Entertainment City, the Philippines, a project now in jeopardy....
Osaka Wins Bid to Host World Expo in Major Coup for Casino Ambitions
The Japanese city of Osaka has won its bid to host the 2025 World Expo, boosting its chances of becoming the venue for one of three integrated resorts that will comprise Japan’s impending new casino market. While some Japanese cities have been...
China Reportedly Nixes North Korea Border Casino Plan
A North Korea casino project has been abandoned after folding to pressure from regional superpower China, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA). The Washington D.C.-based broadcaster said North Korea was building a 30-story hotel in Sinuiju on its northwestern border with China...
